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  • The Burning of the World

    The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul

    by Scott W. Berg ...
    WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The "illuminating" (New Yorker) story of the Great Chicago Fire: a raging inferno, a harrowing fight for survival, and the struggle for the soul of a city—told with the "the clarity—and tension—of a well-wrought military narrative" (Wall Street Journal)In ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Grand Avenues

    The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.

    by Scott W. Berg ...
    In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfant—a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers—to design the new nation's capital. L’Enfant approached this task with unparalleled vigor and passion; however, his imperious and unyielding nature also made him many ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 38 Nooses

    Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End

    by Scott W. Berg ...
    In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution, but anger won the day. Forced to either lead his warriors in a war he knew they could not win or ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Burning of the World

    The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul

    by Scott W. Berg ...
    Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 47 min

    WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The "illuminating" (New Yorker) story of the Great Chicago Fire: a raging inferno, a harrowing fight for survival, and the struggle for the soul of a city—told with the "the clarity—and tension—of a well-wrought military narrative" (Wall Street Journal)In ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    38 Nooses

    Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End

    by Scott W. Berg ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 34 min

    In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution, but anger won the day. Forced to either lead his warriors in a war he knew they could not win or ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

    National Book Award Winner

    by A. Scott Berg ...
    The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary.The talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and numerous others. But Maxwell Perkins remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as editor but also as critic, career manager, moneylender, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Wilson

    by A. Scott Berg ...
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a brilliant biography"* of the 28th president of the United States.*Doris Kearns GoodwinOne hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize–winning author A. Scott ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Lindbergh

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    by A. Scott Berg ...
    Even after twenty years, A. Scott Berg’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindberg remains “the definitive account” of one of the 20th century’s most extraordinary figures.Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh—renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn son in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Culture Crash

    The Killing of the Creative Class

    by Scott Timberg ...
    Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. We must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible to earn a living. A persistent economic recession, social shifts, and technological change have combined to put our artists—from graphic designers to indie ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goldwyn

    A Biography

    by A. Scott Berg ...
    The legacy of silver screen tycoon Samuel Goldwyn comes to vivid life in this acclaimed biography from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Wilson, Lindbergh, and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius.He was the premier dream-maker of his era—a fierce independent force in a time when studios ruled. He was a producer of silver-screen sagas who may have been, in the words of Harper's ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Running Wild Press Short Story Anthology, Volume 9

    by Adam Cheshire, Ayman Eckford, Mark Williams, Gilbert Allen, August Reynolds, Arindam Kalita, G. Milton, Theresa Walker, Abhishek Udaykumar, Jason A. Wyckoff, Jessica Berg, Scott Taylor, Ibtisam Shahbaz, Elizabeth Behle, Ernest Langston, Joy Curtis, Lauren Lang ...
    It was a true delight to select these stories and compile an anthology of work from around the world. Covering themes as wide as death to dancing, magic to mystery, nostalgia to neurosis, time travel to traveling through time, and science fiction to society, these stories venture outward and inward to form a permanent collection built by the temporary gathering of talent. The authors came together ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kate Remembered

    by A. Scott Berg ...
    For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century - reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time.In 1983 - at the age of seventy-five, her career cresting - the four-time Academy Award winner opened the ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook