Creators:
From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney
by Paul Johnson
HarperCollins, March 2006
ISBN 0-06-019143-0
Hardcover

Paul Johnson—the celebrated journalist, historian, and author of many books including the personally recommended Intellectuals, The Birth of the Modern, and The Quest for God—once again challenges and delights inquisitive readers with Creators: From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney.

Brookland by Emily Barton
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, March 2006
ISBN 0-374-11690-3
Hardcover

Born in January of 1772, Prue Winship—against all odds—grows up (in Emily Barton’s beautiful, lyrical novel Brookland) to become one of the most remarkable women in America. Brookland—a deftly written tale in which Barton successfully combines third-person and epistolary narrative—is Prue’s compelling story.

Remembering her youth, as Prue would later recall in letters to her adult daughter Recompense, “I [had already] resolved [at five years of age] in my childish way to learn what I could of building, to store up against future use.” When she was five years older in 1782—as readers of Brookland will discover—young Prue began having a most unlikely dream about a bridge across the East River that would connect Brooklyn with Manhattan, the place Prue had become convinced was the haunted and strangely different “land of the shades.” The ten year old’s peculiar dream, however, was destined to remain little more than a fanciful and obsessive delusion since young Prue had just then begun many years of intensive training at her father’s distillery where she would eventually be solely responsible as owner and manager of Winship Gin.

Anne Bradstreet: A Guided Tour of the Life and Thought of a Puritan Poet
By Heidi L. Nichols
P&R Publishing, January 2006
ISBN 0-87552-610-1
Trade Paperback

Anne Bradstreet, a name very well known to readers of colonial American literature but perhaps not familiar to the general reader, is the subject of Heidi L.

Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F. Cantor
HarperCollins, December 2005
ISBN 0-06-057012-1
Hardcover

What do you really know about Alexander the Great? Let me challenge you with a speculative opinion and suggest that most of what you probably know is wrong.

After Elizabeth:
The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England
by Leanda de Lisle
Ballantine, February 2006
ISBN 0-345-45045-0
Hardcover

Leanda de Lisle’s intriguing new book takes a richly detailed look back at an immeasurably significant point in the progress of world history.