American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 Jenny Han The life on the Island

The life on the Island is just a perfect escape from the real world and I could totally imagine myself spending time there

Llama Llama has to wait

what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game

Criminal psychologist Erin Larson's dreams of a successful career come to a screeching halt when she nearly loses her own life in a boating accident on Puget Sound and then learns that her mother tried to commit suicide

But as she makes her way to the San Francisco docks to look for her father

American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 Jenny Han The life on the IslandFrom the two time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a "first rate" narrative history (The New York Times)that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America. American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, when a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen transformed the United States from an agrarian