William Martin, Author . Warner $25.95 (580p) ISBN 978-0-446-53084-2
Martin, who introduced antiquarian Peter Fallon in his debut novel Back Bay
(1979), brings him back for a second quest in this sprawling bibliomystery, which traces the tightly interlaced histories of the fictional Wedge family and Harvard...
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William Martin, Author Warner Books Inc $36 (652p) ISBN 978-0-446-51510-8
In a sweeping historical saga packed with history and incident, Martin ( Back Bay ) follows two intertwined yet bitterly antagonistic families from their Pilgrim origins to the present day. On board the Mayflower, sanctimonious church elder Ezra...
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William Martin, Author Warner Books $40 (700p) ISBN 978-0-446-51511-5
Martin is the maritime Michener, charting sweeping historical fictions centering on cities and lands by the sea: Back Bay (1979), Cape Cod (1991) and now America's foremost naval town. The primary protagonists of this multigenerational saga are the...
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William Martin, Author Mradult $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06890-5
Martin's first book is an immense and appealing study of how Billy Graham became the ``world's most influential Christian leader'' and how Early America virtually became a Christian nation. The account starts 350 years ago with the Pilgrims...
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William Martin, Author Warner Books $37 (583p) ISBN 978-0-446-52172-7
Appearing on the bicentennial of Washington's death, Martin's (Annapolis) brisk, engaging and far from worshipful portrayal of the childless father of this country is told from multiple points of view by those who knew him. The first president, war...
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William Martin, Author Broadway Books $27.5 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-06745-3
The confluence of politics and religion in American life is explored with insight and style in this important new book from Martin (A Prophet With Honor), a professor of sociology at Rice University. Focusing on the modern era, the author analyzes...
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William Martin, Author . Forge $24.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-765-31538-0
A rare, annotated draft of the U.S. Constitution is at the heart of Martin's entertaining third novel to feature antiquarian book dealer Peter Fallon. As in Harvard Yard
(2003), Martin tells two stories. The first chronicles the loss and...
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William Martin. Forge, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2198-5
International bestseller Martin (City of Dreams) returns with another Peter Fallon historical thriller, this time following the dangerous trail of a lost Lincoln document. Boston antiquarian bookseller Fallon and his erstwhile fiancée Evangeline...
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William Martin. Forge, $29.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8421-8
Bestseller Martin’s engrossing sixth Peter Fallon novel (after 2012’s The Lincoln Letter) takes the Boston-based historian and rare book dealer to San Francisco, where his lawyer son is handling the last will and testament of wealthy Maryanne...
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William Martin. Forge, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8424-9
This so-so what-if thriller from bestseller Martin (the Peter Fallon series) centers on a plot to kill FDR. Right after Pearl Harbor, German agent Martin Browning finalizes his plan to shoot President Roosevelt during the White House Christmas tree...
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