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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle and NOT the original book. Preview: Jeannette Walls chronicles all the heartbreak, deprivation, humor, and love of her childhood in The Glass Castle, a memoir of growing up dirt-poor on a cross-country odyssey...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bret Baier’s Three Days in January and NOT the original book. Preview: Bret Baier’s Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission is a laudatory evaluation of Eisenhower’s career in the military and subsequent presidency. The book...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and NOT the original book. Preview: In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Malcolm Gladwell argues that first impressions are often surprisingly accurate. Having less information and making decisions quickly...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to George W. Bush’s 41 and NOT the original book. Preview: In his book, 41: A Portrait of my Father, George W. Bush offers an inside look at his father, George H.W. Bush, and the family that produced the forty-first and forty-third presidents...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Sam Walton's & et al Made in America and NOT the original book. Preview: Sam Walton: Made in America (1992) by Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton is an autobiographical account of how Walton, who came from modest means and grew up during the Great Depression,...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Gary J. Byrne’s & et al Crisis of Character and NOT the original book. Preview: Gary J. Byrne was a member of the uniformed division of the Secret Service during the Clinton administration in the 1990s. He was stationed outside the door of...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Eli Sanders’s While the City Slept and NOT the original book. Preview: While the City Slept by Eli Sanders is a journalistic work portraying the series of events that led up to a sexual assault and homicide in an outlying neighborhood of Seattle,...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ty Bollinger's The Truth About Cancer and NOT the original book. Preview: The Truth About Cancer by health advocate Ty Bollinger is a nonfiction book that details the little-known history of the modern medical establishment and how its profit-driven...

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Guide to Martin Pistorius’s Ghost Boy by Instareadand NOT the original book. Preview: Martin Pistorius, who lost all his memories after a childhood illness, tells the story of his miraculous reawakening in his memoir, Ghost Boy. Martin...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Amy Myers's The Thyroid Connection and NOT the original book. Preview: The Thyroid Connection by functional medicine doctor Amy Myers is a self-help book for people who suffer from thyroid dysfunction or suspect that they do. Myers took up her mission...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to DeVita’s Jr., M.D & et al The Death of Cancer and NOT the original book. Preview: The Death of Cancer is a comprehensive look at the trajectory of cancer treatment in America over the last fifty years, as told through the lens of Vincent DeVita’s...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Erik Larson's Dead Wake and NOT the original book. Preview: Dead Wake by Erik Larson is a non-fiction account of the German Unterseeboot, or U-boat, sinking of Lusitania, a British merchant vessel belonging to Cunard Line, on May 7, 1915 and its...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Dan Lyons’s Disrupted and NOT the original book. Preview: Disrupted by Dan Lyons is a memoir about Lyons’s experiences as a middle-aged career journalist who takes a job in marketing at a startup. For years, Lyons wrote for Newsweek about technology...