Paperback Releases, April 2024
The Daughters of George III: Sisters and Princesses
by Catherine Curzon
(Pen and Sword History)
Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World
by Rosemary J. Brown
(Pen and Sword History)
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
by Nell Irvin Painter
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
by Anastasia C. Curwood
(The University of North Carolina Press)
Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John “Sonny” Franzese
by S. J. Peddie
(Citadel)
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
by Ava Chin
(Penguin Books)
Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley
by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans
(Holt Paperbacks)
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
by Fiona Sampson
(W. W. Norton & Company)
In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World
by Livia Manera Sambuy
(Picador)
David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor
by Michael Brenson
(Picador)
Defoe’s Britain (Daniel Defoe)
by Jeremy Black
(St. Augustines Press)
Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot (Eric “Winkle” Brown)
by Paul Beaver
(Penguin)
The Real Coco Chanel
by Rose Sgueglia
(White Owl)
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History
by Tracy Borman
(Grove Press)
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
by Abraham Josephine Riesman
(Atria Books)
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
by Miranda Seymour
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Daniel Shays’s Honorable Rebellion: An American Story
by Daniel Bullen
(Westholme Publishing)
An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
by Richard Norton Smith
(Harper Paperbacks)
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
by Jeffrey Toobin
(Simon & Schuster)
LeBron
by Jeff Benedict
(Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Miracle of The Music Man: The Classic American Story of Meredith Willson
by Mark Cabaniss
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
by Leta McCollough Seletzky
(Counterpoint)
Small Hours: The Long Night Of John Martyn
by Graeme Thomson
(Omnibus Press)
After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller
by Max Wallace
(Grand Central Publishing)
The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back
by Shannon McKenna Schmidt
(Sourcebooks)
God of Sperm: Cappy Rothman’s Life in Conception
by Joe Donnelly
(Rare Bird Books)
Meriwether Lewis
by Thomas C. Danisi and John C. Jackson
(Prometheus)
For the Birds: American Ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice
by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
(University of Oklahoma Press)
Jean Racine: A Critical Biography
by Geoffrey Brereton
(Routledge)
Nightfly: The Life of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen
by Peter Jones
(Chicago Review Press)
George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy
by Sally Bedell Smith
(Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Flying Tiger Ace: The Story of Bill Reed, China’s Shining Mark
by Carl Molesworth
(Osprey Publishing)
Tony Lazzeri: Yankees Legend and Baseball Pioneer
by Lawrence Baldassaro
(University of Nebraska Press)
Buzzie and the Bull: A GM, a Clubhouse Favorite, and the Dodgers’ 1965 Championship Season (Buzzie Bavasi and Al “the Bull” Ferrara)
by Ken LaZebnik
(University of Nebraska Press)
Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee
by Daryl Joji Maeda
(NYU Press)