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John Tyler
The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
The first "accidental president," whose secret maneuverings brought Texas into the Union and set secession in motion
When William Henry Harrison died in April 1841, just one month after his inauguration, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency. It was a controversial move...
Richard M. Nixon
The American Presidents Series: The 37th President, 1969-1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency
In this provocative and revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, the legendary Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew explains how Richard M. Nixon's troubled inner life offers the key to...
Kissinger's Shadow
The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance
In his fascinating new book Kissinger's Shadow, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of...
The Senator Next Door
A Memoir from the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
One of the U.S. Senate's most candid--and funniest--women tells the story of her life and her unshakeable faith in our democracy
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has tackled every obstacle she's encountered--her parents' divorce, her father's alcoholism and recovery, her political campaigns...
Invisible
The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life
She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York...
Dawn of the New Everything
Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox
The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology
Bridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside...
Brotherhood of the Bomb
The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The fascinating story of the men who founded the nuclear age, fully told for the first time
The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence,...
Archaeology from Space
How the Future Shapes Our Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
National Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak welcomes you to the exciting new world of space archaeology, a growing field that is sparking extraordinary discoveries from ancient civilizations across the globe.
In Archaeology from Space, Sarah Parcak shows the evolution,...
It Takes a School
The Extraordinary Success Story That Is Changing a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A story of David and Goliath proportions, how an American hedge fund manager created a unique school in Somaliland whose students, against all odds, have come to achieve success beyond anyone’s wildest dreams
Jonathan Starr, once a cutthroat hedge fund manager, is not your traditional do-gooder,...
Head Case
My Brain and Other Wonders
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
A spirited, wry, and utterly original memoir about one woman's struggle to make her way and set up a life after doctors discover a hole the size of a lemon in her brain.
The summer before she was set to head out-of-state to pursue her MFA, twenty-six-year-old Cole Cohen submitted herself to a battery...
A Good Man
Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In this intimate portrait of an extraordinary father-son relationship, Mark K. Shriver discovers the moral principles that guided his legendary father and applies them to his own life
When Sargent "Sarge" Shriver—founder of the Peace Corps and architect of President Johnson's War...
by Robert J Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
All proceeds help vulneerable children and distressed families.
Born to an unwed, teenage mother, his childhood of poverty, neglect and unspeakable abuse included more than 35 homes before his unlikely graduation from high school. Today, as CEO of Patrick Henry Family Services, Robert Day's...
A Royal Experiment
The Private Life of King George III
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The Times Best Books of the Year • The Sunday Times Best Books of the Year
The New Statesman Book of the Year selection by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
BBC History Magazine Book of the Year selection by Helen Rappaport
"A masterpiece . . . . [T]his heartbreaking narrative of family dysfunction and royal...
Born to Be King
Prince Charles on Planet Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A provocative, surprising, and utterly fresh portrait of Charles, Prince of Wales
He is one of the world's most fascinating and least understood figures: now sixty-six, Prince Charles has spent his entire life preparing to be king while insisting on being his own man. In this brilliant portrait,...