John Adams

John AdamsThe Pulitzer Prizewinning, bestselling biography of Americas founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who

WINNER OF TWO GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS (Best Debut Novel & Best Historical Fiction)

heralding a gathering darkness

or "one") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents' generation ceased to exist

Jonathan Evison explores seventy years of big moments in subtle ways

Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives

Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives

her ensemble mate Sloane persuades Charlotte and the rest of the quartet to spend Christmas with her family in Colorado—it is much cozier and quieter than Manhattan

it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself

And as the story takes off

But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory

With a blizzard closing off roads

She begins interviewing other women