Love Stories
by Jonathan Ned Katz | 
The Indifferent Stars Above
by Daniel James Brown | 
A Treasury of Deception
by Michael Farquhar |
What the Butler Saw
by E. S. Turner |
Napoleon's Privates
by Tony Perrottet |
Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare
by John Toohey |
1492
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
The Evolution of Civilizations
by Carroll Quigley | 
Cotton
by Stephen Yafa |
Catastrophe
by David Keys |
Cheyenne Autumn
by Mari Sandoz |
Civilization
by Roger Osborne | 
Making Gay History
by Eric Marcus | 
Men to Match My Mountains
by Irving Stone |
Games without Rules
by Tamim Ansary | 
Pickett's Charge
by George R. Stewart | 
The Pirate Hunter
by Richard Zacks | 
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe |
The Pioneers
by David McCullough | 
Over the Edge of the World
by Laurence Bergreen |
The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people -- men, women, and children -- set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers; an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.