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The Great American Read: The Book of Books
Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series.
What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour...
Our Man Elsewhere
In Search of Alan Moorehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation . . . and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure,...
The Royal Nonesuch
Or, What Will I Do When I Grow Up?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“The hipster cultural economy of the dot-com boom is skewered in this hilarious coming-of-age memoir.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Glasgow Phillips published his debut novel Tuscaloosa at the tender age of twenty-four. The results were disastrous: encouraging reviews, translations,...
The Hamilton Collection
The Wisdom and Writings of the Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The subject of a New York Times best-selling biography and a Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, interest in Alexander Hamilton is at an all-time high. This carefully curated collection of Hamilton's writings gives the reader an intimate glimpse into the mind of our most misunderstood founding father.
The...
Presidents Fact Book Revised and Updated!
The Achievements, Campaigns, Events, Triumphs, and Legacies of Every President from George Washington to the Current One
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
*An All-New Edition!
The Presidents Fact Book* is a complete compendium of all things presidential and a sweeping survey of American history through the biographical lens of every president from George Washington through Donald Trump.
Organized chronologically by president, each entry...
People in Glass Houses
An Insider's Story of a Life In and Out of Hillsong
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
*The eighties were my formative years, and while other teenagers were gyrating to rock 'n' roll, we were praying for revival. We were taking communion, not cocaine. We treated virginity like a wedding present, not a cold sore.
And why wouldn't we? We were told we could be, we already were,...
Taking the Reins
The Critical Years, 1971-1977
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Just a few weeks after the foundation of the United Arab Emirates on 2 December 1971, Dr Sultan al-Qasimi was selected as the new ruler of Sharjah. With the addition of a further and final emirate in 1972, seven hitherto separate emirates had now become a single country under the leadership of Shaikh...
Disqualified
Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Having previously tied the world record, Eddie Hart was a strong favorite to win the 100-meter dash at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. Then the inexplicable happened: he was disqualified after arriving seconds late for a quarterfinal heat. Ten years of training to become the “World’s Fastest...
George Steinbrenner's Pipe Dream
The ABL Champion Cleveland Pipers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Steinbrenner nearly beats the Cavaliers to the NBA by eight years
In an eleventh-floor corner office in downtown Cleveland during the spring of 1961, 30-year-old George Steinbrenner sketched with his hands the future as he dreamed it. He grabbed the young basketball player who was sitting near...
Dangerous Customer Service
Dangerously Great Customer Service...How to Achieve it and Maintain it
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Dangerous Customer Services provides real help for real people in the real world.
This book guide managers through the realities and practicalities of great customer service. Dangerous Customer Service shows the reader how to cover the basics: what customers expect from a service and what they...
by Deb Olin Unferth, Elizabeth Haidle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The acclaimed graphic novel that tells the tale of a mother, her son, forty-two endangered parrots, and a fierce search for redemption and a freer world.
When Daphne loses custody of her son, she is willing to do whatever it takes to get him back—even if it means enlisting the help of the wayward...
The Story of Sex
A Graphic History Through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The first graphic history of sex chronicles sexuality and human intimacy through the ages, from our primate pasts to our robotic futures.
Humans have had sex on the brain since pre-civilization either for pleasure, power, revenge, a desire for children, or simply because it isn't allowed. Today,...
The Song of the Machine
From Disco to DJs to Techno, a Graphic Novel of Electronic Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
A pulsating graphic novel on the epic history of electronic music, from the heyday of disco in the 1970s to the rave culture of the 1990s and beyond.
With a foreword from house music legends Daft Punk, The Song of the Machine is a celebration of a musical wave that swept across the world over...
Flying Couch
A Graphic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
“Themes of guilt, Jewish identity, and the complex relationships among daughters, mothers, and grandmothers . . . expanded upon with humor and honesty.” —School Library Journal
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In this...