The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading...

''A masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America's three largest countries—the United States, Mexico, and Canada—all transformed themselves into nations. The American Civil War...

Tells the story of teenage Anthony Soprano, as he grows up during the 1960s and 1970s in Newark, in the midst of race riots and gang wars.

When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.

Tony faces a myriad of immediate, stress-inducing crises at home, at work and from the law. Tony's wife Carmela plans for a future she's not sure will arrive, and son AJ and daughter Meadow find that adulthood holds its own surprises.

Jackie Peyton is a drug-addicted emergency room nurse in a New York City hospital. For Peyton, every day is a high-wire act of juggling patients, doctors, fellow nurses, and her own indiscretions. The second season continues its look deep inside the complicated heart and soul of a functioning addict, a loving wife and mother, and a first-class nurse.