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|  | Ungentlemanly Acts: Armys Notorious Incest Trail
255 characters or less!This study of an 1879 court martial that included a countercharge of incest examines the military culture of the post-Civil War frontier.
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Anne Frank by Miriam Pressler, Otto Frank, Otto M. Frank, Winona Ryder
Description not available.A new translation of Anne Frank's diary includes entries that were originally omitted by her father--approximately one-third of the diary--and provides insight into Anne's budding sexuality and her stormy relationship with her mother. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: Miriam Pressler, Otto Frank, Otto M. Frank, Winona Ryder
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Buried City of Compeii by Greg Ruhl, Shelley Tanaka
Description not available.Uses a fictionalized account of the life of the steward of an important estate to describe the ancient Italian city of Pompeii and what happened to it during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. AUTHOR: Greg Ruhl, Shelley Tanaka
PUBLISHER: Disney Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | A Book of Migrations by Rebecca Solnit
A book about Ireland, by an American woman who became an Irish citizen in 1986. Her essays tend to explore offbeat topics, including the Irish`s sympathy with Native Americans, Jonathan Swift vs. Sir Philip Sidney, a group of naturalist nuns, and the implications of the potato famine. AUTHOR: Rebecca Solnit
PUBLISHER: Verso
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Plunkitt of Tammany Hall by Ernest R. May, Peter J. Quinn, Terrence J. McDonald, William L. Riordan
Description not available.A series of frank and unabashed discussions between George Washington Plunkitt, a key politician of Tammany Hall, and William L. Riordan, a sharp-eared and sympathetic reporter, reveals Plunkitt's successful political strategies. Reprint. AUTHOR: Ernest R. May, Peter J. Quinn, Terrence J. McDonald, William L. Riordan
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Maus by Art Speigelman
It is the story of Vladek Speigelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us. AUTHOR: Art Speigelman
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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