Tom Zoellner examines the role of ‘contraband’ people in the defeat of the Confederacy
In The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War, Tom Zoellner examines a little known but crucial driver of emancipation — the actions of enslaved people who fled their owners and forged their own destinies.
He taught a child of the 1950s that anything in life might be new and exciting without automatically being better
A murder mystery from a fine storyteller with a poet’s sensibility
Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben team up to create a thriller with a gritty, grief-stricken heroine
Book Excerpt: Feller
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