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Missing Microbes
How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert
Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing research...
Fire and Fury
Inside the Trump White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
#1 New York Times Bestseller
With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Since Donald Trump was sworn in as...
Old School
Life in the Sane Lane
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Old School is in session....
You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.
It’s a values thing. The anti–Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not...
Shake the Devil Off
A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A charismatic young soldier meets a tragic end in this moving and mesmerizing account of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and no-safety-net America
Zackery Bowen was thrust into two of America's largest recent debacles. He was one of the first soldiers to encounter the fledgling insurgency...
The Midnight Assassin
Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Assassin is a sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885.
In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan...
In a Heartbeat
Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story
First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie—the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our...
by Patrick F. McManus
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
The beloved humorist and bestselling author returns with his most riotous collection of essays to date.
Overflowing with his trademark outdoorsman's wit, Patrick F. McManus's newest collection ponders the strange allure of the RV, the existential implications of being lost, the baffling tendency...
A Voyage Long and Strange
Rediscovering the New World
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something....
The Longest Road
Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In The Longest Road, one of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large.
Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled...
The River at the Center of the World
A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China, pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai, it has also historically...
Yukon Alone
The World's Toughest Adventure Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In the tradition of Into the Wild, a story of daring and determination in one of nature's harshest, loneliest, and most beautiful places.
The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is among the most challenging and dangerous of all the organized sporting events in the world. Every February,...
Chinese Lessons
Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
"A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China's
hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future."—The New York Times Book Review
As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to...
Bell Weather
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
A captivating adventure set in a fantastical world where a young woman must uncover the secrets of her past while confronting the present dangers of a magical wilderness
When Tom Orange rescues a mysterious young woman from the flooded Antler River, he senses that their fates will deeply intertwine.
At...
by Henry M. Piironen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
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