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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 2, 2010
FLAWLESS: INSIDE THE LARGEST DIAMOND HEIST IN HISTORY
by Scott Andrew Selby, Greg Campbell
"Sure to appeal to armchair rogues and, like Blood Diamond, cinema-ready."
Exciting, well-crafted tale of the "School of Turin," a gang of master thieves who looted the putatively theft-proof Antwerp Diamond Center. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: April 27, 2010
Kirkus Star HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL: THE STALKING OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND THE INTERNATIONAL HUNT FOR HIS ASSASSIN
by Hampton Sides
"An expertly written study in true crime, vividly recapturing the mood of 1968."
From veteran journalist and historian Sides (Blood and Thunder, 2006, etc.), a riveting account of James Earl Ray's long quest to kill Martin Luther King Jr. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2010
MY QUEER WAR
by James Lord
"A timely, artfully written memoir of one man's war."
Art historian and critic Lord (Mythic Giacometti, 2004, etc.) recounts his life as a gay GI in World War II. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2010
GET CAPONE: THE SECRET PLOT THAT CAPTURED AMERICA’S MOST WANTED GANGSTER
by Jonathan Eig
"An impressive, accessible history of a troubled time."
Scrupulously researched account of the men who made the 1920s roar, and the straight-arrows who stopped them. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 11, 2010
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS: A TRUE STORY OF NAZI PLUNDER AND THE RACE TO RECOVER THE CROWN JEWELS OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
"Fast-moving and intriguing, in the vein of Raiders of the Lost Ark."
From filmmaker Kirkpatrick (The Revenge of Thomas Eakins, 2006, etc.), a vivid true-crime narrative about a post–World War II investigation meant to prevent Nazis still at large from using several venerable medieval artifacts to reconstitute the Reich. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 11, 2010
WAR
by Sebastian Junger
"An often harrowing, though mostly conventional, account of the physical and psychological toll of modern warfare on the average soldier."
The latest flexing of journalistic muscle from Vanity Fair contributor Junger (A Death in Belmont, 2006, etc.). Read full book review >