`[ American War] creates as haunting a post-apocalyptic universe as Cormac Mc Carthy did in The Road, & as devastating a look at the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America... El Akkad has written a novel that not only maps the harrowing effects of violence on one woman & her family, but also becomes a disturbing parable about the ruinous consequences of war on ordinary civilians.` Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. & when her father is killed & her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time & place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war
- part of the Miraculous Generation
- now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family`s role in the conflict &, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.

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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER, NEW YORK TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE WASHINGTON POST` American War creates as haunting a post-apocalyptic universe as Cormac Mc Carthy did in The Road, & as devastating a look at the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America.` Michiko Kakutani, New York Times ...

National Geographic’s double-sided map presenting on one side The American War of Independence 1775
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National Geographic’s double-sided wall map, paper version, presenting on one side The American War of Independence 1775
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As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand & cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga & an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs & ephemera from the period. ...

The bible of American whiskeys, bourbons, & ryes has been updated! Arranged alphabetically by distillery & then br&, this expanded & revised edition offers histories, ratings, & tasting notes for over 300 whiskeys
- with more than 100 entirely new entries. Each section

Includes:: the contact information of the featured maker, along with its various products. In addition to finding out how to get the best value for your money, you`ll learn how to read a label, how to buy whiskey, which whiskey to give as a gift, & a full account of each bottling, including: age, proof, nose, colour, body, palate, & price. Discerning drinkers will savour their newfound knowledge!


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Prosperous, good-looking & empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America`s mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people & make contact with the true heart of his homel&. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel. ...

David Bell embodies the American dream. He`s twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, & beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America`s screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David`s dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel & record what is real. He takes a camera & journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover & capture some sense of his own & his country`s past, present & future. ” Americana” is Don De Lillo`s brilliant first novel. ...

From the award-winning author of ' Half of a Yellow Sun, ' a powerful story of love, race & identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu & Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, & people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats & triumphs, finds & loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, & he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart & so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face? Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents & numerous lives, ' Americanah' is a richly told story of love & expectation set in today's globalized world. ...