James Bradley, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (398p) ISBN 978-0-316-10584-2
The author of Flags of Our Fathers
achieves considerable but not equal success in this new Pacific War–themed history. Again he approaches the conflict focused on a small group of men: nine American Navy and Marine aviators who were shot...
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James Bradley, Author . Little, Brown $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-00895-2
Theodore Roosevelt steers America onto the shoals of imperialism in this stridently disapproving study of early 20th-century U.S. policy in Asia. Bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers
, Bradley traces a 1905 voyage to Asia by Roosevelt’s...
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James Bradley. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-785654-14-5
Moving and nuanced characterizations distinguish this subtle look at an Earth suffering the consequences of climate collapse. In the near future, the effects of global warming have become more severe: the oceans are dying from increased acidity,...
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James Bradley, Author, Ron Powers, With, Michael French, Adapted by , adapted by Michael French. Delacorte $8.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-73064-8
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called this volume, adapted from a bestseller for adults, a "memorable work," as it focuses on one of the most famous of war photographs: the image of six Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. The author, son of one of those Marines,...
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James Bradley, Author, Ron Powers, With, Michael French, Adapted by Bantam Books $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-11133-0
Say ""Iwo Jima,"" and what comes to mind? Most likely a famous photograph from 1945: six tired, helmeted Marines, fresh from a long, terrifying and bloody battle, work together to raise the American flag on Mount Suribachi. Bradley's father, John,...
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James Bradley, Author, Ron Powers, With, Michael French, Adapted by Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-72932-1
Newly adapted from a bestseller for adults, Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima by James Bradley with Ron Powers, adapted by Michael French, focuses on one of the most famous of war photographs: the image of six marines raising the American
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James Bradley, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6108-6
A seamless fusion of dramatic wartime love story, historical fiction and archeological murder mystery, Australian writer Bradley's accomplished debut novel has a dreamlike compulsion. Archeologist David Norfolk, obsessively searching for a 16th-centu
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James Bradley, Author Henry Holt & Company $26 (358p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6111-6
Taking his title from an astronomical term for a ""pinhole"" in the sky through which deep space and time may be glimpsed, Australian writer Bradley (the multiple-prize-winning Wrack) presents an imaginative vision of the future in this ambitious,...
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James Bradley. Little, Brown, $35 (448p) ISBN 978-0-316-19667-3
In 2009’s The Imperial Cruise, Bradley suggested that President Teddy Roosevelt’s inept dealings with Japan in 1905 directly contributed to the decision by the Japanese to go to war with the U.S. in 1941. Here, Bradley extends the faults of the...
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Alex Ryan. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-62953-594-4
This earnest, workmanlike series debut, penned by two U.S. Navy veterans writing under the Ryan pseudonym, introduces Nick Foley, a former Navy SEAL now working with a nongovernmental organization. Foley is leading an irrigation project in western...
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James Bradley. HarperOne, $18.99 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-339017-1
This expansive report from novelist Bradley (Ghost Species) studies ocean ecosystems as a means of exploring the interconnectedness of life on Earth. Emphasizing the fragility and complexity of ecological communities, Bradley notes that the...
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