Paperback Releases, October 2024
Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin
by Danny Fingeroth
(Chicago Review Press)
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and The Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
by Tanisha C. Ford
(Amistad)
The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
(Hanover Square Press)
Lou Reed: The King of New York
by Will Hermes
(Picador)
Tilghman: The Legendary Lawman and The Woman Who Inspired Him (William “Bill” Tilghman)
by Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss
(TwoDot)
Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter
by Lucy O’Brien
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Ralph Metzner, Explorer Of Consciousness: The Life and Legacy of a Psychedelic Pioneer
by Cathy Coleman
(Park Street Press)
Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
by Barbara Ransby
(The University of North Carolina Press)
The Man Who Saved Geometry: The Multidimensional Mind of Donald Coxeter
by Siobhan Roberts
(Princeton University Press)
The Life And Times Of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative
by Gregg Hecimovich
(Ecco)
The Conductor: The Story of Rev. John Rankin, Abolitionism’s Essential Founding Father
by Caleb Franz
(Post Hill Press)
Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
by Stephen Fried
(Gallery Books)
Fannie Lou Hamer: America’s Freedom Fighting Woman
by Maegan Parker Brooks
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography
by Staci Robinson
(Crown)
Prince Eugene of Savoy: A Genius for War Against Louis XIV and The Ottoman Empire
by James Falkner
(Pen and Sword Military)
Driving Marilyn: The Life and Times of Legendary Hollywood Agent Norman Brokaw
by Joel Brokaw
(Lyons Press)
Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1258–1272
by David Carpenter
(Yale University Press)
The Life of William Shakespeare
by Charles Nicholl
(Pallas Athene)
Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
by Donald J. Robertson
(Yale University Press)
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
by Scott Eyman
(Simon & Schuster)
Donald Writes No More: The Life of Donald Goines, The Godfather of Street Lit
by Eddie Stone
(Holloway House)
Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of Enslaved Potter David Drake
by Leonard Todd
(Blair)
Tappan Adney: From Birchbark Canoes to Indigenous Rights
by C. Ted Behne and James W. Wheaton
(Goose Lane Editions)
Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara
by Vona Groarke
(NYU Press)
Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
by Jennet Conant
(W. W. Norton & Company)
The Dark Side Of Isaac Newton: A Modern Biography
by Nick Kollerstrom
(Pen and Sword History)
The Boy From Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky’s Life in Ballet
by Marina Harss
(Picador)
The Butcher Of Poland: Hitler’s Lawyer Hans Frank
by Garry O’Connor
(The History Press)
Mr. All-Around: The Life of Tom Gola
by David Grzybowski
(Temple University Press)
The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird: The Fearless Victorian Adventurer
by Jacki Hill-Murphy
(Pen and Sword History)
Undreamed Shores: Five Women Who Sought Out the World (Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood, and Barbara Freire-Marreco)
by Frances Larson
(Granta Books)
Martin Luther King: A Religious Life
by Paul Harvey
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle
by Shane Ross
(Atlantic Books)
Journey Toward Justice: Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Mary Stanton
(University of Georgia Press)
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. And The Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
by Daniel L. Schafer
(University Press of Florida)
A Life Cut Short At The Little Big Horn: U.S. Army Surgeon George E. Lord
by Todd E. Harburn
(University of Oklahoma Press)
Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist: Morton J. Elrod
by George M. Dennison
(University of Oklahoma Press)
Cook’s Endeavour (James Cook)
by Kevin Jackson
(Leapfrog Press)
Shankly: From Glenbuck To Wembley (Bill Shankly)
by Phil Thompson and Steve Hale
(The History Press)
Elizabeth & John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm
by Alan Atkinson
(NewSouth)
Glorying In Tribulation: The Lifework of Sojourner Truth
by Erlene Stetson and Linda David
(Michigan State University Press)
John Dewey: Prophet of an Educated Democracy
by Philip B. Moore
(Routledge)
The Doubts and Loves of Yehuda Amichai: Israeli, European, and International Poet
by Ido Bassok
(Hamilton Books)