Author: Denise Kiernan Book: WE GATHER TOGETHER: A Nation Divided, A President in Turmoil, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace Publishing: Dutton (November 10, 2020) Synopsis (from the Publisher): From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Castle and The Girls of Atomic City comes a new way to look at American history through the story of […]

Author: Craig Johnson Book: NEXT TO LAST STAND: A Longmire Mystery Publishing: Viking (September 22, 2020) Publishing: The new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer’s Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a […]

Author: Jennet Connant Book: THE GREAT SECRET: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer Publishing: W. W. Norton & Company (September 8, 2020) Synopsis (from the Publisher): The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the […]

Author: Tyler Maroney Book: THE MODERN DETECTIVE: How Corporate Intelligence Is Reshaping the World Publishing: Riverhead Books (September 29, 2020) Synopsis (from the Publisher): A fascinating examination of the world of private investigators by a 21st-century private eye. Today’s world is complicated: companies are becoming more powerful than nations, the lines between public and corporate […]

Author: David Reynolds Book: ABE: Abraham Lincoln in His Times Publishing: Penguin Press (September 29, 2020) Synopsis (from the Publisher): “A marvelous cultural biography that captures Lincoln in all his historical fullness. . . . using popular culture in this way, to fill out the context surrounding Lincoln, is what makes Mr. Reynolds’s biography so […]

Author: Matt Haig Book: THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY: A Novel Publishing: Viking (September 29, 2020) Synopsis (from the Publisher): An instant New York Times bestseller A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! “Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try […]

Author: Brad Meltzer (illustrated by Christoper Eliopoulos) Books: I AM ANNE FRANK & I AM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (Ordinary People Change the World) Publishing: Dial Books; Illustrated Edition (October 13, 2020) Synopses (from the Publisher): The 21st book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Benjamin Franklin, one […]

Author: Lynne Cheney Book: THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation Publishing: Viking (September 22, 2020) Synopsis (from the Publisher): A vivid account of leadership focusing on the first four Virginia presidents–George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe–from the bestselling historian and author of James Madison. From a […]

Author: Ian Buruma Book: THE CHURCHILL COMPLEX: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit Publishing: Penguin Press (September 1, 2020) Synopsis (from the Publisher): From one of its keenest observers, a brilliant, witty journey through the “Special Relationship” between Britain and America that has done so much to shape […]

Author: Colin Woodard Book: UNION: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood Publishing: Viking (June 16, 2020) Synopsis (from the Publisher): The author of American Nations returns to the historical study of a fractured America by examining how a myth of national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century–a […]