In Stores Now, January 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
by Marlene L. Daut
(Knopf)
The Many Lives of Anne Frank
by Ruth Franklin
(Yale University Press)
Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World’s Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son
by Lionel Barber
(Atria/One Signal Publishers)
Where Madness Lies: The Double Life of Vivien Leigh
by Lyndsy Spence
(Pegasus Books)
Doc Watson: A Life in Music
by Eddie Huffman
(University of North Carolina Press)
The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess
by Meryl Gordon
(Grand Central Publishing)
George Cukor’s People: Acting for a Master Director
by Joseph McBride
(Columbia University Press)
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
by Agnes Callard
(W. W. Norton & Company)
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
by Nora Berend
(Pegasus Books)
Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless Saint
by Volker Leppin with Rhys S. Bezzant
(Yale University Press)
The Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor
by Nathen Amin
(Amberley Publishing)
Gloria Swanson: Hollywood’s First Glamour Queen
by Stephen Michael Shearer
(Lyons Press)
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History
by Nicola Clark
(Pegasus Books)
Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director’s Chair
by Alexandra Seros
(University of Texas Press)
Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy
by Jeffrey Boutwell
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
by Lida Maxwell
(Stanford University Press)
Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins
by Mary Frances Phillips
(NYU Press)
Pompey the Great: The Roman Alexander
by Lee Fratantuono
(Pen and Sword Military)
Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
by Josiah Osgood
(Basic Books)
The Lady and the Beast: The Extraordinary Partnership between Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley
by Deja Whitehouse
(Oxford University Press)
Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney
by David Leeming
(Karma, New York)
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
by Rebecca Brenner Graham
(Citadel)
Jeremy Catto: A Portrait of the Quintessential Oxford Don
by David Vaiani
(Unicorn Publishing Group)
Mary Cassatt Between Paris And New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy
by Ruth E. Iskin
(University of California Press)
A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
by Douglas R. Egerton
(Oxford University Press)
Henry V’s Brother: John of Lancaster, Regent of France
by Joanna Arman
(Pen and Sword History)
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
by Michael Sheridan
(Headline)
Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King
by Preston Lauterbach
(Hachette Books)
Alice Cooper: The Godfather of Shock & Roll
by Gary Graff
(Motorbooks)
Inside the President’s Team: Family, Service, and the Gerald Ford Presidency
by Bob Barrett
(Pegasus Books)
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe
by John J. Callanan
(Princeton University Press)
Eyes on the Stars and Feet on the Ground: The Foreign Policy of Theodore Roosevelt
by Howard Jones
(Rowman & Littlefield)
Nightmare in the Pacific: The World War II Saga of Artie Shaw and His Navy Band
by Michael Doyle
(University of North Texas Press)
An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Henrietta Vinton Davis, Maymie de Mena, and Laura Kofey)
by Natanya Duncan
(University of North Carolina Press)
Christian IV: Rex Splendens and Rex Humilis
by Steffen Heiberg, Juliette Roding, Margriet Lacy-Bruijn, Rolof van Hövell tot Westerflier, and Poul Holstein
(Karwansaray Publishers)
Testament of Lost Youth: The Early Life and Loves of Vera Brittain
by Kathryn Ecclestone
(Pen and Sword History)
Moebius
by Nicolas Labarre
(University Press of Mississippi)
Art Masters: Vincent Van Gogh
by Susie Hodge
(Sirius)
The Great War Ace, The Red Baron and Beyond: The Life and Achievements of Air Marshal Sir Brian Baker KBE, CB, DSO, MC, AFC
by Jacquie Buttriss
(Pen and Sword Aviation)
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle: The Man Who Invented the Turbo-Jet
by Robert L Evans
(Air World)
The World and Work of Father John J. Burke: A Mystic in Action
by Douglas J. Slawson
(St Augustine’s Press)
Another Zionism, Another Judaism: The Unrequited Love of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis
by Göran Rosenberg
(Other Press)
The Churchill Deception: The True Story of Peter Churchill in World War II
by Peter Jacobs
(Greenhill Books)
The War Against Tuberculosis: Samuel G. Dixon and the Rise of Modern Public Health in Pennsylvania
by James E. Higgins
(Penn State University Press)
Aleksandr Tvardovskii: Memory and Truth in the Soviet Union
by Geoffrey Hosking
(Central European University Press)
The Birdman of Auschwitz: The Life of Günther Niethammer, the Ornithologist Seduced by the Nazis
by Nicholas Milton
(Pen and Sword History)
Mao Zedong
by Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji
(Cambridge University Press)
Elsie Houston: Revolutionary Soprano
by Adjoa Osei
(Oxford University Press)
Loreen: She’s the One
by Carolyn McHugh
(Sona Books)
From War Hero to Peace Promoter: The True Story of Siegfried Sassoon
by Duncan Marlor
(Pen and Sword Military)
Strabo
by Jessica Lightfoot
(Bloomsbury Academic)
Searching for Thaddeus: Images of a Forgotten Irishman in Ireland and Italy
by Patricia Curtin-Kelly
(Liberties Press)
Mao Zedong: A True Story
by Jie Li
(Royal Collins Publishing Company)
Writing Against Hitler: Hermann Budzislawski and the Making of Twentieth-Century Socialism
by Daniel Siemens with Ben Fowkes
(University of Wisconsin Press)
Thanks To Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
by Ericka Kim Verba
(University of North Carolina Press)
Florence Nightingale’s Rivals: Nursing through the Crimea
by Louise Wyatt
(Pen and Sword History)
The Art of Impact: Action Principles for a World in Crisis from the Extraordinary Life of Hansjörg Wyss, An Authorized Biography
by Paul Orzulak and Seth Schulman
(Disruption Books)
Main Force to Mosquito Master Bomber: The Story of Wing Commander Eric Benjamin DFC & Bar
by Jeannie Benjamin and Sean Feast
(Fighting High Publishing)
Semi-Detached Suburban Mr Jones: The Country Trap (Brian Jones)
by Kevin J. Last
(Unicorn Publishing Group)
Peter Gregory: Publisher and Patron of Modern British Artists
by Valerie Holman
(Lund Humphries)
Queen Victoria: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works
by Charles V. Reed
(Rowman & Littlefield)
Insensible of Boundaries: Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary
by Kristin Moriah
(University of Pennsylvania Press)
Becoming Escher
by Joris Escher
(Rowman & Littlefield)