A 2016 National Book Award finalist, News of the World by poet and novelist Paulette Jiles is now a major motion picture. In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young Kiowa captive back across Texas to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel …

H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the American West's settling, from John Jacob Astor's fur-trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, and from the California gold rush to Oklahoma’s land runs. The West was a region where riches could potentially reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage and the railroad man's …