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That Churchill Woman
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
The Paris Wife meets PBS’s Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history’s most remarkable women: Winston Churchill’s scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome.
Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by...
Just Jackie
Her Private Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
In this journalistic tour de force, bestselling author Edward Klein, a friend of Jacqueline Onassis's for many years, takes us behind the public image to give us a story that has never been told before. For this myth-shattering portrait, Klein has amassed a wealth of exclusive information from private...
Reluctant Warrior
A Marine's True Story of Duty and Heroism in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
"ONE OF THE BEST VIETNAM WAR STORIES I'VE EVER READ, one damn good, compelling read. It's almost something out of a Clancy novel, yet it's true. The best thing I can say about it is I didn't want it to end."
--Col. David Hackworth, New York Times bestselling author of About Face
By...
Diary of an Airborne Ranger
A LRRP's Year in the Combat Zone
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Perhaps the most accurate story of LRRPs at war
ever to appear in print!
When Frank Johnson arrived in Vietnam in 1969, he was nineteen, a young soldier untested in combat like thousands of others--but with two important differences: Johnson volunteered for the elite L Company Rangers of the...
Seawolves
First Choice
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
They called themselves Seawolves . . .
The men of SEALs, PBRs, and SF called them saviors . . .
Created in 1967, the HAL-3 helicopter squadron--aka Seawolves--provided quick-reaction close air support to SEALs, PBR River Rats, and Special Forces advisers and their troops. During the five years...
Death in the Delta
Diary of a Navy Seal
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Mankind is a predator by nature and a hunter by instinct. I loved to hunt. It was in my blood. And I was now ready to head back to the bush, to hunt the biggest game in the world--man.
With five tours of Vietnam and 257 combat missions under his belt, Navy SEAL Gary R. Smith has witnessed hell...
Death in the A Shau Valley
L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-70
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Featuring a new introduction by the author about his return to Vietnam, his reflections on the war, and his humanitarian work in Cambodia.
“The enemy had a single purpose: kill me and my teammates.”
Larry Chambers was still new to Vietnam in early 1969 when the LRRPs of the 101st...
U.S.Navy Seawolves
The Elite HAL-3 Helicopter Squadron in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
There were no dry runs for Seawolves in Vietnam.
They put their lives on the line—every time.
In the Viet Cong-infested Mekong Delta, where small SEAL teams were alwaysoutgunned and outnumbered, discovery brought swift, deadly consequences— and a radio call for backup from the United States...
Loon
A Marine Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
“Kids like me didn’t go to Vietnam,” writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he...
by Chaim Potok
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
"REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."
--The Boston Globe
The father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father held dear. Now, Chaim Potok, beloved...
The Ride of Our Lives
Roadside Lessons of an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic...
A Chosen Few
The Resurrection of European Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud...
Skinny Habits
The 6 Secrets of Thin People
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Bob Harper lets us in on the secret behaviors of people who not only lose weight but keep the pounds off for good—and make it look easy.
In Bob Harper’s #1 New York Times bestselling book The Skinny Rules, the trusted trainer and coach of NBC’s The Biggest Loser laid out the twenty nonnegotiable...
One Less Thing to Worry About
Uncommon Wisdom for Coping with Common Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
When it comes to having anxiety, women outnumber men two to one. Fluctuations in levels of estrogen and other hormones, as well as physiological factors unique to women, seem to cause us not only to experience anxiety differently at different times in our lives, but also to worry about different things...