The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused

Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century

The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

The Island at the Center of the World

The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy

Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I

Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man

Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

Ronin: Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai

A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573?1617

Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713

Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason

Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean: The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers

Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890

1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy

Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen

Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America