Author: James T. Patterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: states, united, history, oxford, expectations, grand
Number of Pages: 829
Published: 1997-11-20
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0195117972
ISBN-13: 9780195117974

Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet’s steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The U.S. then had three-fourths of the world’s gold supplies. English Prime Minister Edward Heath later said that the United States in the post-War era enjoyed "the greatest prosperity the world has ever known." It was a boom that produced a national euphoria, a buo

Author: James T. Patterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: states, united, oxford, history, gore, watergate, giant, restless, bush
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2007-03-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195305221
ISBN-13: 9780195305227

In Restless Giant, acclaimed historical author James Patterson provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush in a sweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments. We meet the era’s many memorable figures and explore the "culture wars" between liberals and conservatives that appeared to split the country in two. Patterson describes how America began facing bewildering developments in places such as Panama, Somalia, Bosnia,

Author: James T. Patterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: states, united, oxford, history, vol, gore, watergate, giant, restless, bush
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-09-23
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 019512216X
ISBN-13: 9780195122169

James Patterson’s Bancroft Prize-winning Grand Expectations, the penultimate volume in the Oxford History of the United States, was hailed by The New York Times as "a spirited, sprawling narrative of American life" and by The Wall Street Journal as "a tour de force." Now, in the final chronological volume of this acclaimed series, Patterson again offers an authoritative and vibrant history of a turbulent period in American life. Restless Giant provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush, in a

Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: number, berryman, thomas
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0446600458
ISBN-13: 9780446600453

Three terrifying murders in the South culminate in a relentless manhunt in the North that centers on a ruthless assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is hired to kill with extreme prejudice. Reprint. NYT. LJ.

Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Keywords: novel, ride, maximum, fang
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-03-15
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0316036196
ISBN-13: 9780316036191

Being a kid with wings--constantly on the run--has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a young girl arrives, warning them "The sky will fall." And as if an impending apocalypse weren’t bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max’s soul mate: Fang will be the first to die.Max’s desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the st

Author: James T. Patterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: pivotal, legacy, moments, american, history, troubled, milestone, board, education, civil, rights, brown
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-12-12
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195156323
ISBN-13: 9780195156324

2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America’s public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another battle of the Civil War has been won. The rest is up to us and I’m

Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: cross, alex, double
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2007-11-13
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0316015059
ISBN-13: 9780316015059

Just when Alex Cross’s life is calming down, he is drawn back into the game to confront a criminal mastermind like no other. The elaborate murders that have stunned Washington, DC, are the wildest that Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. This maniac adores an audience, and stages his killings as spectacles in public settings. Alex is pursuing a genius of terror who has the whole city on edge as it waits for his next move. And the killer loves the attention, no doubt-he even sets up his own Web site and live video feed to trumpet his madness.And in