A multicultural history of the United States, from 1815 to 1850, focusing on the first wave of immigration and the abolitionist and feminist movements.

"The James Beard Award-winning compendium of the paper's best recipes, revised and updated. Ten years after the phenomenal success of her once-in-a generation cookbook, former New York Times food editor Amanda Hesser returns with an updated edition for anew wave of home cooks. Devoted Times subscribers as well as newcomers to the paper's culinary mother lode will find dozens of recipes to treasure: Purple Plum Torte, David Eyre's Pancake, Pamela Sherrid's...

There's trouble in paradise for former CIA operative Michael Western and his cohorts, and the streets of Miami are hotter, and deadlier, than ever before. In hot pursuit of his old nemesis, Michael must take down Anson Fullerton and find a way to free Fiona from prison, where she is being targeted by a murderous foe. Michael goes full force to save Fiona as he takes on cold-blooded assassins, diabolical drug cartels, uneasy alliances, and explosive...

As Union soldier, Henry Fleming waits for action with his fellow soldiers during the American Civil War, he wonders if he is a hero or a runner.

Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work.

The story of this book begins in the seventeenth century, when a small sea-faring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume...