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by Cheryl Pearl Sucher
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
A gorgeous first novel that traces the courageous coming of age of a young Jewish woman under the influence of her parents’ Holocaust experience, recorded in the fading photographs and film reels buried in her father’s closet.
A Vineyard Killing
Martha's Vineyard Mystery #14
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
It's March on Martha’s Vineyard. Too early for bluefish, but not too early for trouble. The winds are brisk and there’s still a chill coming in off the ocean. The mood is gloomy, and for good reason. Former Olympic fencing champion turned millionaire real estate developer Donald Fox has targeted...
The Last of the Tribe
The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Throughout the centuries, the Amazon has yielded many of its secrets, but it still holds a few great mysteries. In 1996 experts got their first glimpse of one: a lone Indian, a tribe of one, hidden in the forests of southwestern Brazil. Previously uncontacted tribes are extremely rare, but a one-man...
Enough
Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership.
After the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life, basic questions consumed Gabby Giffords and her family: Would Gabby survive the bullet through...
Devils in Exile
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Neal Maven comes home from his tour in Iraq to nothing—no job, no friends, no future. Then he meets Brad Royce, a fellow vet, charismatic and confident, with the lifestyle and the one woman Neal has always wanted: Danielle Vetti, Maven’s high-school dream girl. Royce offers Maven a spot on his...
by Asha Bandele
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program. It was an encounter that would alter her life forever, because it was there, in the prison, that she would meet Rashid, the man who was to become...
Dreamer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Set against the tensions of Civil Rights era America, Dreamer is a remarkable fictional excursion into the last two years of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, when the political and personal pressures on this country's most preeminent moral leader were the greatest. While in Chicago for his first northern...
Dead Center
Clinton-Gore Leadership and the Perils of Moderation
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1999
"The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy....To renew America, we must be bold...must revitalize our democracy....Together with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us."
With those inaugural words, William Jefferson...
Follow the Money
How George W. Bush and the Texas Republicans Hog-Tied America
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
With its barbecues, new Cadillacs, and $4,000 snakeskin cowboy boots, Texas is all about power and money -- and the power that money buys. This detailed and wide-scope account shows how a group of wealthy Texas Republicans quietly hijacked American politics for their own gain.
Getting George...
My Own Country
A Doctor's Story of a Town and its People in the Age of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The memoir and first book from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone.
Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first...
Turmoil and Triumph
Diplomacy, Power, and the Victory of the American Deal
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Turmoil and Triumph isn’t just a memoir—though it is that, too—it’s a thrilling retrospective on the eight tumultuous years that Schultz worked as secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan. Under Schultz’s strong leadership, America braved a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union,...
The Breach
Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2000
The journalist who co-wrote the original article breaking the Monica Lewinsky scandal for the Washington Post reveals the complete story behind the headlines: a riveting, in-depth account of an event unique in American history -- the first impeachment of an elected president.
"For all of the...
by John B. Judis, Ruy Teixeira
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
**ONE OF *THE ECONOMIST'*S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD
Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In...
Mrs. Nixon
A Novelist Imagines a Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Dazzlingly original, Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon is a riveting exploration of an elusive American icon and of the fiction writer’s art.
Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her...