Anchor imprint: 1481 books
The Man Who Saved the Union
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from...
Do As I Say (Not As I Do)
Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
“I don’t own a single share of stock.” —Michael Moore
Members of the liberal left exude an air of moral certitude. They pride themselves on being selflessly committed to the highest ideals and seem particularly confident of the purity of their motives and the evil nature of their opponents....
Ike's Spies
Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
This classic Cold War-era history looks at the way President Dwight Eisenhower managed America’s secret operations as general and as commander in chief and is based on privileged access to the president and his private papers—from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.
During his time...
Reagan's War
The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Reagan’s War is the story of Ronald Reagan’s personal and political journey as an anti-communist, from his early days as an actor to his years in the White House. Challenging popular misconceptions of Reagan as an empty suit who played only a passive role in the demise of the Soviet Union, Peter...
Hidden Power
Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Kati Marton’s bestselling Hidden Power is an engrossing look at twelve presidential marriages–from Edith and Woodrow Wilson to Laura and George W. Bush–that have profoundly affected America’s history.
Marton uncovers the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the ultimate power couples, showing...
by Rafe Esquith
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Year after year, Rafe Esquith’s fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearen actor himself, Sir Ian McKellen. Yet Esquith teaches at an L.A. innercity school known...
The Tyrannicide Brief
The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke, whose Puritan conscience, political vision,...
A Saint on Death Row
The Story of Dominique Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Bestselling author Thomas Cahill tells the absorbing, heartbreaking tale of the hard life and tragic death of Dominique Green—wrongly accused, then executed in Huntsville, Texas—and shines a light on our racist and deeply flawed criminal justice system.
Green, an extraordinary young man from...
To Touch a Wild Dolphin
A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
To Touch a Wild Dolphin is the first intimate account of dolphin life in the wild. In 1982 Rachel Smolker traveled to Monkey Mia, a remote beach on the west coast of Australia where wild dolphins regularly interact with humans. Over the next fifteen years, Smolker and a team of fellow scientists were...
by Lauren Slater
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
The world of the schizophrenic, the depressed, the suicidal can seem a foreign, frightening place. Now, a brilliant writer/psychologist takes readers on a mesmerizing journey into this enigmatic world. As readers interact through Slater with patients Lenny, Moxi, Oscar, and Marie, they come to understand more about the human mind and spirit. First serial to Harper's.
Girl in the Dark
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Haunting, lyrical, unforgettable, Girl in the Dark is a brave new memoir of a life without light.
Anna Lyndsey was young and ambitious and worked hard; she had just bought an apartment; she was falling in love. Then what started as a mild intolerance to certain kinds of artificial light developed...
by David Lindley
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
The gripping, entertaining, and vividly-told narrative of a radical discovery that sent shockwaves through the scientific community and forever changed the way we understand the world.
Werner Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principle” challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed...
After the Prophet
The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever.
Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Islamic...
The Spiral Staircase
My Climb Out of Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Gripping, revelatory, and inspirational, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary account of an astonishing spiritual journey. In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature...