NONFICTION
Released: May 17, 2011
"A breathtakingly accomplished, entertaining and illuminating epic."
A dense, brilliant charting of England's folk-music tradition and its multiplicity of modern mutations.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 17, 2011
"European history."
A comprehensive, insightful one-volume study of World War II that relentlessly pursues the question: Why didn't the Axis win?
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NONFICTION
Released: May 10, 2011
"The author does a superb job of describing the nuts-and-bolts of field research, the meaning of the often headline-producing findings and the ever-changing variety of species who split off from the common ancestors of chimpanzees and hominids."
An appealing account of human evolution and the fiercely competitive anthropologists who are unearthing our ancestors' remains and arguing over what they mean.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 10, 2011
"An excellent study, taking a tiny instant of modern history and giving it specific weight, depth and meaning."
A sometimes improbable but nevertheless true tale of diplomacy and intrigue by bestselling author Larson (
Thunderstruck, 2006, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: May 3, 2011
"A brilliantly realized memoir of surprise and startling beauty."
Screenwriter and novelist Forrest (Cherries in the Snow, 2005, etc.) delivers an intense story of madness and redemption.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2011
"Polished, fast-paced and immensely readable--ready for the big screen."
Former
Boston Globe reporter Zuckoff (Journalism/Boston Univ.;
Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, 2009, etc.) delivers a remarkable survival story.
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