Best Known Authors Of All Time - April 2024

It All Comes Back to You: A Book Club Recommendation!

"It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can't. It becomes attached to you, a part of you."Dan Brown, Author of ReunionIt's 1947.War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Violet lives in a perfect world.Everybody loves her.In 2012, she's still beautiful, charming, and surrounded by admirers.Veronica "Ronni" Johnson, licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, meets the captivating Violet in the assisted living facility where... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07GVN38FX
• ASIN: B07GVN38FX
• Manufacturer: The Art of Dixie

Educated: A Memoir

Number-one New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe best seller Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year Bill Gates's Holiday Reading List Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's Award in Autobiography Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award  Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post O: The Oprah Magazine Time NPR Good Morning America San Francisco Chronicle T... [Read More]

• ASIN: B075F68BFV
• ASIN: B075F68BFV
• Manufacturer: Random House Audio

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

“The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation. In Ghost Soldiers Hampt... [Read More]

• ASIN: 038549565X
• ASIN: 038549565X
• ISBN: 038549565X
• Brand: Anchor
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Devil All the Time

• ASIN: B004J4WM9A
• ASIN: B004J4WM9A
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale in late October, America's #1 best-loved novel will b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316417556
• ASIN: 0316417556
• ISBN: 0316417556
• Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

Lilac Girls: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah’s Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances.New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101883073
• ASIN: 1101883073
• ISBN: 1101883073
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

A Piece of the World: A Novel

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Exquisite. A must-read.” --Kristin HannahFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World. "Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, loo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062356267
• ASIN: 0062356267
• ISBN: 0062356267
• Brand: William Morrow
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501168681
• ASIN: 1501168681
• ISBN: 1501168681
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories

• ASIN: 1627792104
• ASIN: 1627792104
• ISBN: 9781627792103
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt

Passenger to Frankfurt

• ASIN: B007Z507ZQ
• ASIN: B007Z507ZQ
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

Endless Night (Queen of Mystery)

• ASIN: B005CL8DPQ
• ASIN: B005CL8DPQ
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

Someone Knows My Name: A Novel

• ASIN: B003M5IGFG
• ASIN: B003M5IGFG
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War (The Gettysburg Trilogy)

The Civil War is the American Iliad. Lincoln, Stonewall Jackson, Grant, and Lee still stand as heroic ideals, as stirring to our national memory as were the legendary Achilles and Hector to the world of the ancient Greeks. Within the story of our Iliad one battle stands forth above all others: Gettysburg.Millions visit Gettysburg each year to walk the fields and hills where Joshua Chamberlain made his legendary stand and Pickett went down to a defeat which doomed a nation, but in defeat forever became a symbol of the heroic Lost Cause. As the years passed, and the scars healed, the debate, rat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312309368
• ASIN: 0312309368
• ISBN: 0312309368
• Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

• ASIN: 0812998480
• ASIN: 0812998480
• ISBN: 0812998480
• Brand: Random House
• Manufacturer: Random House

We Shall Not All Sleep: A Novel

“An utterly compelling novel from a brilliant new voice.” --M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans Seven Island has two houses. One for Hillsingers and one for Quicks.1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family--Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue sisters Lila and Hannah Blackwell--they do not mix. Now, on the anniversary of Hannah's death, Lila feels grief pulling her toward Billy. And Jim, a spy recently ousted from the CIA on suspicion of treason, decides to carry out the threat ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1632868415
• ASIN: 1632868415
• ISBN: 1632868415
• Brand: BLOOMSBURY USA
• Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA

A Treatise on the Art of Breeding and Managing Tame, Domesticated, and Fancy Pigeons, Carefully Compiled from the Best Authors, with Observations, Containing All That Is Necessary to Be Known of Tame, Domesticated, and Fancy Pigeons

A Treatise on the art of Breeding and Managing Tame, Domesticated, and Fancy Pigeons, Carefully Compiled From the Best Authors, With Observations,

• UPC: 652987157

A Treatise On The Art Of Breeding And Managing Tame, Domesticated, And Fancy Pigeons, Carefully Compiled From The Best Authors, With Observations, Containing All That Is Necessary To Be Known Of Tame,

A Treatise On The Art Of Breeding And Managing Tame, Domesticated, And Fancy Pigeons, Carefully Compiled From The Best Authors, With Observations, Containing All That Is Necessary To Be Known Of Tame, Domesticated, And Fancy

• UPC: 828545204

A Treatise on the Art of Breeding and Managing Tame, Domesticated, and Fancy Pigeons, Carefully Compiled from the Best Authors, with Observations, Containing All That Is Necessary to Be Known of Tame, Domesticated, and Fancy Pigeons

A Treatise On The Art Of Breeding And Managing Tame, Domesticated, And Fancy Pigeons, Carefully Compiled From The Best Authors, With Observations, Containing All That Is Necessary To Be Known Of Tame, Domesticated, And Fancy

• UPC: 636828220

Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know / A Selection of the Best Fairy Tales of All Time and of All Authors

Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know / A Selection of the Best Fairy Tales of All Time and of All

• UPC: 212074791

A New General History of the World : Comprehending Both the Ancient and Modern History of Its Several Empires, Kingdoms, and States: From the Creation, to the Present Time: Collected from the Best Authors in All Languages Volume 4 of 6

New General History of the

• UPC: 827028579

A New General History of the World : Comprehending Both the Ancient and Modern History of Its Several Empires, Kingdoms, and States: From the Creation, to the Present Time: Collected from the Best Authors in All Languages Volume 6 of 6

New General History of the

• UPC: 174618234

A New General History of the World : Comprehending Both the Ancient and Modern History of Its Several Empires, Kingdoms, and States: From the Creation, to the Present Time: Collected from the Best Authors in All Languagesvolume 5 of 6

New General History of the

• UPC: 984516265

A New General History of the World : Comprehending Both the Ancient and Modern History of Its Several Empires, Kingdoms, and States: From the Creation, to the Present Time: Collected from the Best Authors in All Languages. Volume 3 of 6

New General History of the

• UPC: 852327269

Sherlock Holmes: The Collection - eBook

This NEW and EXPANDED Multimedia Edition contains:a new introductionlinks to free audiobooksan in-depth biography of the authorseveral HTML tables of contentshigh quality layoutsFor more detailed information, please read the “EXPANDED MULTIMEDIA EDITION” section at the

• UPC: 731580753

Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know / A Selection of the Best Fairy Tales of All Time and of All Authors

Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know / A Selection of the Best Fairy Tales of All Time and of All

• UPC: 645668323