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by David Rotenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth. For years this talent proved to be a lucrative sideline to his acting teaching. Only his closest friends know, and he keeps his identity secret from the companies that pay him to tell them if the people they are planning to hire are truthful.
But...
A Murder of Crows
Second Book of the Junction Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
David Rotenberg’s Decker Roberts is back, and he always knows when who’s telling the truth.
Decker Roberts is back, and he always knows when you’re telling the truth.
David Rotenberg first introduced Decker Roberts and his unique gifts in the critically acclaimed thriller The Placebo...
War Letters
Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection --...
The Brilliant Disaster
JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
A “balanced, engrossing account” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the vivid truth of five pivotal days in April 1961.
At the heart of the Bay of Pigs crisis stood President John F. Kennedy, and journalist Jim...
by Ernest Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close...
The Man from the Train
The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old...
Henna House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
“A touching coming-of-age story” (Publishers Weekly) in the tradition of Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, about a young woman, her family, their community and the customs that bind them, from “a storyteller of uncommon energy and poise” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
This vivid...
by Josephine Tey
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year's term is nearly over, and Miss Pym -- inquisitive and observant -- detects a furtiveness in the behavior of one student during a final exam. She prevents the girl from cheating by destroying...
The Emerald Mile
The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
From one of Outside magazine’s “Literary All-Stars” comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983.
In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the length of the...
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A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
From “the most entertaining chronicler of nice guy romance since Nick Hornby” (A.J. Jacobs), a memoir about an unexpected break-up, one self-imposed year of being single, and how a “nice guy” survived dating in the twenty-first century.
Matteson Perry is a Nice Guy. He remembers birthdays,...
Seeking the Cure
A History of Medicine in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician
Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow’s Seeking the Cure, there have been no modern works, either...
Lady Bird
A Biography of Mrs. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
A revealing biography of Lady Bird Johnson with startling new insights into her marriage to Lyndon Baines Johnson and her unexpectedly strong impact on his presidency.
Long obscured by her husband's shadow, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson emerges in this first comprehensive biography as a figure of surprising...
The Deceivers
Allied Military Deception in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In World War II, the Allies employed unprecedented methods and practiced the most successful military deception ever seen, meticulously feeding misinformation to Axis intelligence to lead Axis commanders into erroneous action. Thaddeus Holt's elegantly written and comprehensive book is the first to...
by Thomas E. Ricks
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
The bestselling, compelling insider’s account of the Marine Corps from the lives of the men of Platoon 3086—their training at Parris Island, their fierce camaraderie, and the unique code of honor that defines them.
The United States Marine Corps, with its proud tradition of excellence in...