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The Book of Practical Faith
A Path to Useful Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
More than ever before, many of us are struggling to cope with the trials and tribulations of modern life. In this concise and eloquent volume, D. Patrick Miller inspires us to meet these challenges with a practical faith, which he describes as "the way out of misery, the way into self-knowledge,...
Teller of Tales
The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review)
This fresh, compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan...
Balsamic Dreams
A Short But Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
The author of the bestselling Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon takes aim at the boomer generation in a hilarious work of social commentary.
It's become fashionable to vilify baby boomers. Professional iconoclast and baby boomer Joe Queenan, however, takes a somewhat more benign...
We've Already Gone This Far
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A heartfelt, vital collection; the debut of an exciting new talent already hailed as one of George Saunders' "favorite young American writers"
In Patrick Dacey's stunning debut, we meet longtime neighbors and friends--citizens of working-class Wequaquet--right when the ground beneath...
Fencing the Sky
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A haunting novel of the American West about an accidental murder that springs from the best intentions.
Stepping his horse through the lush, beaver-worked draw looking for stray cows, Mike Arans never imagined that, moments later, he'd find himself swinging a nylon loop around Merriweather...
by Henry M. Piironen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Read them, love them, quote them, the often witty, the often cerebral, and sometimes even hilarious quotes of this book. Find the perpetual diamonds of wisdom and truth, while enjoying the rest.
Infamy
The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE • Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II
Less than three months after Japan bombed...
A Chance to Win
Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, New Jersey, revealing the complex realities of urban life in one of America's most dangerous cities
When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he...
Queenan Country
A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In this hilarious romp through England, one of America's preeminent humorists seeks the answer to an eternal question: What makes the Brits tick?
One semitropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan's English wife suggested that the family might like a chicken vindaloo in lieu of the customary barbecue....
by Ellen Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Water for Elephants meets Geek Love in this riveting first novel, an enchanting love story set in P. T. Barnum's American Museum in 1865 New York City
Bartholomew Fortuno, the World's Thinnest Man, believes that his unusual body is a gift. Hired by none other than P. T. Barnum to work at his...
The Guns at Last Light
The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II
It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished...
The Lions of Iwo Jima
The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
"In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America understand how it was done."—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys
Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units...
Pearl Harbor Betrayed
The True Story of a Man and a Nation under Attack
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A naval historian draws on newly revealed primary documents to shed light on the tragic errors that led to the devastating attack, Washington's role, and the man who took the fall for the Japanese tactical victory.
Michael Gannon begins his authoritative account of the "impossible to forget"...
by Henry Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2011
Rebble Rauser and his fellow Free Territory fighter jocks have previously banded together to form the "Barbarian Nation's" air militia. With the Global Federation tied up in both conventional and nuclear conflicts in the Middle East, the rebels have no outside threats to worry about for the moment,...