Paperback Releases, September 2021

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
by Heather Clark
(Vintage)

Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick
by Andrea Friederici Ross
(Southern Illinois University Press)

All In: The Winningest Field Hockey Coach in America Sue Butz-Stavin
by Heidi Bright Butler
(Bright Pages Publishing)

Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock

by Christina Lane
(Chicago Review Press)

The Planter of Modern Life: How an Ohio Farm Boy Conquered Literary Paris, Fed the Lost Generation, and Sowed the Seeds of the Organic Food Movement
by Stephen Heyman
(W. W. Norton)

His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham
(Random House)

Hannah Arendt

by Samantha Rose Hill
(Reaktion Books)

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life
by Jonathan Alter
(Simon & Schuster)

Breaking Barriers: The First Ladies of Education
by DeWitt S. Williams
(BookBaby)

Hitler: Downfall, 1939–1945
by Volker Ullrich, translated by Jefferson Chase
(Vintage)

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
by Sudhir Hazareesingh
(Picador)

The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
(Anchor)

Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
by David S. Reynolds
(Penguin Books)

The Last Days of John Lennon
by James Patterson, Casey Sherman, and Dave Wedge
(Grand Central Publishing)

Sallie Stockard and the Adversities of an Educated Woman of the New South
by Carole W. Troxler
(North Carolina Office of Archives and History)

Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest for Global Power
by Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck
(Hachette Books)

Machiavelli: His Life and Times
by Alexander Lee
(Picador)

JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956
by Fredrik Logevall
(Random House)

They Called Him Marvin
by Roger Stark
(Brigham Distributing)

The King of Confidence
by Miles Harvey
(Back Bay Books)

The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil
by Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery, and Keith Chester
(Regnery History)

Fifty Shades of Crimson: Robert Fripp and King Crimson
by Pete Tomsett
(Backbeat)

A Quilt for David
by Steven Reigns
(City Lights Publishers)

Working with Winston: The Unsung Women Behind Britain’s Greatest Statesman
by Cita Stelzer
(Pegasus Books)

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
by Sarah Smarsh
(Scribner)

Rage
by Bob Woodward
(Simon & Schuster)

Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life
by Bill Madden
(Simon & Schuster)

Sky Rider: Park Van Tassel and the Rise of Ballooning in the West
by Gary B. Fogel
(University of New Mexico Press)

Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
by Jeff Pearlman
(Mariner Books)

Babble on an’ ting: Alex Paterson’s Incredible Journey Beyond the Ultraworld with The Orb
by Kris Needs
(Omnibus Press)

Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization
by Joe Scarborough
(Harper Paperbacks)

Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul
by Deanna Witkowski
(Liturgical Press)

Dreams of Victory: General P. G. T. Beauregard in the Civil War
by Sean Michael Chick
(Savas Beatie)

The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
by Lynne Cheney
(Penguin Books)

Hitler’s First Hundred Days
by Peter Fritzsche
(Basic Books)

Limelight: Rush in the ’80s
by Martin Popoff
(ECW Press)

Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
by Guy de la Bédoyère
(Yale University Press)

The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist
by Anthony M. Amore
(Pegasus Crime)

Marriage, Murder, and Betrayal in Nineteenth-Century California
by Jo M. Haraf
(America Through Time)

Mafia Hit Man Carmine DiBiase: The Wiseguy Who Really Killed Joey Gallo
by Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson
(Citadel)

Letters from Red Farm: The Untold Story of the Friendship between Helen Keller and Journalist Joseph Edgar Chamberlin
by Elizabeth Emerson
(Bright Leaf)

The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat
by Eric Jager
(Crown)

The Emphatically Queer Career of Artist Perkins Harnly and His Bohemian Friends
by Sarah Burns
(Process)

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
by Tom Lewis
(Three Hills)

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher
(Atria Books)

The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the U.S., and Iran’s Global Ambitions
by Arash Azizi
(Oneworld Publications)

To Be a Warrior: The Adventurous Life and Mysterious Death of Billy Davidson
by Brandon Pullan
(Rocky Mountain Books)

Monarch of the Green: Young Tom Morris, Pioneer of Modern Golf
by Stephen Proctor
(Arena Sport)

Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen
by John Hardman
(Yale University Press)

Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists: Shelagh Delaney • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster
by Celia Brayfield
(Bloomsbury Caravel)

A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story
by Diane Glancy
(Turtle Point Press)

A Century of Swindles: Ponzi Schemes, Con Men, and Fraudsters
by Railey Jane Savage
(Lyons Press)

George Washington Parke Custis: A Rarefied Life in America’s First Family
by Charles S. Clark
(McFarland)

Native Trailblazer: The Glory and Tragedy of Penobscot Runner Andrew Sockalexis
by Ed Rice
(Down East Books)

The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris
by Marc Petitjean, translated by Adriana Hunter
(Other Press)

Film’s First Family: The Untold Story of the Costellos
by Terry Chester Shulman
(University Press of Kentucky)

Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
by John Rodden
(Princeton University Press)

Alexander III, 1249–1286: First Among Equals
by Norman H. Reid
(John Donald)

Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845–1933
by Michael W. Nagle
(Wayne State University Press)

Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers
by Constance Valis Hill
(Oxford University Press)

Too Useful to Sacrifice: Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam
by Steven R. Stotelmyer
(Savas Beatie)

Women Behaving Badly: Cleveland’s Most Ferocious Female Killers, An Anthology
by John Bellamy II
(Gray & Company)

Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend
by Jackie Kay
(Vintage)

Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany
by Jordan Goodman
(William Collins)

The Bushman’s Lair: On the Trail of the Fugitive of the Shuswap
by Paul McKendrick
(Harbour Publishing)

In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics
by Benjamin Talton
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt
by Khaled Fahmy
(Cambridge University Press)

First Scientist: Ibn Al-Haytham
by Bradley Steffens
(Blue Dome Press)

Pinkerton’s and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot: Double Murder, Secret Agents and an Elusive Outlaw
by Geoff Mynett
(Caitlin Press)

Radical Diplomat: Life of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Lord Inverchapel, 1882–1951
by Donald Gillies
(Bloomsbury Academic)

The Bad Detective: The Incredible Cases of Nic Power
by Bob Gordon
(Banovallum)

Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon
by Patrick Mullins
(Scribe US)

All or Nothing at All: The Life of Billy Bland
by Steve Chilton
(Sandstone Press)

Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary
by Richard M. Reinsch II
(Intercollegiate Studies Institute)

Cardinal Newman
by Michael Ffinch
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

The Hitler Conspirator: The Story of Kurt Freiherr von Plettenberg & Stauffenberg’s Valkyrie Plot to Kill the Fuhrer
by Eberhard Schmidt
(Frontline Books)

Gangster Women and Their Criminal World: The History of Gangsters’ Molls and Mob Queens
by Susan McNicoll
(Sirius)

American Bluebeard: Lies and Dead Wives
by Alene Burnett-Reaugh
(BookBaby)

Maecenas
by Peter Mountford
(Routledge)

The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon: Calvinism, Evangelicalism, and the Scottish Enlightenment
by Kevin DeYoung
(Routledge)

Thomas Wride and Wesley’s Methodist Connexion
by Clive Murray Norris
(Routledge)

Elvis: A Biography
by Jerry Hopkins
(Plexus Publishing)

Nā Kahu: Portraits of Native Hawaiian Pastors at Home and Abroad, 1820–1900
by Nancy J. Morris and Robert Benedetto
(University of Hawaii Press)

Celeste Parrish and Educational Reform in the Progressive-Era South
by Rebecca S. Montgomery
(LSU Press)

Growing Up on the Gridiron: Football, Friendship, and the Tragic Life of Owen Thomas
by Vicki Mayk
(Beacon Press)

Umaru Ibrahim: The Accomplished Public Servant
by Gambo Dori
(Safari Books)

Our Great War Heroes: Seven Param Vir Chakra Recipients (volumes 1 and 2)
by Shyam Kumari
(Vij Books India)

Darwin’s Odyssey: The Voyage of the Beagle
by Kevin Jackson
(Leapfrog Press)

Helen Kelly: Her Life
by Rebecca Macfie
(Awa Press)

Aleister Crowley: Art of the Waste
by Roy Huteson Stewart
(Markosia Enterprises)

Cavalier and King of Men: James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, 1607–51
by John Callow
(Helion and Company)

A Contrary Journey with Velvel Zbarzher, Bard
by Jill Culiner
(Claret Press)

Who Is Kim Ondaatje? The Inventive Life of a Canadian Artist
by Lola Lemire Tostevin
(Inanna Publications)

Olive Muriel Pink: Her radical and idealistic life, A poetic journey
by Colleen Keating
(Ginninderra Press)

J. L. Ilsley: A Political Biography: Mackenzie King’s Frugal Finance Minister Who Found the Money for Canada’s War 1939–1945
by Barry Cahill
(Formac)

Stompin’ Tom Connors: The Myth and the Man―An Unauthorized Biography
by Charlie Rhindress
(Formac)

Tunnel-master & Arsonist of the Great War: The Norton-Griffiths Story
by Greg Espinoza
(Pen and Sword Military)

Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor
by P. J. Rhodes
(Pen and Sword Military)

Gandhi: An Impossible Possibility
by Sudhir Chandra
(Routledge)

George Dawson and His Circle: The Civic Gospel in Victorian Birmingham
by Stephen Roberts and Andrew Reekes
(Merlin Press)