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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed not only added an eloquent...
So Many Books, So Little Time
A Year of Passionate Reading
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
“Will make many readers smile with recognition.”—The New Yorker
“Readaholics, meet your new best friend.”—People
**“This book is bliss.”—**The Boston Globe
Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this...
by A. Scott Berg
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary.
The talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and numerous others. But Maxwell Perkins remained a mystery, a backstage...
Honor in the Dust
Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's I mperial Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
“Fascinating… In the end, Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States. This is the story of what happened when a powerful young country and its zealous young president were forced to face the high cost of their ambitions.”—Candice Millard,...
Sonia Sotomayor
The True American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
"Necessary reading" (Booklist) from a New York Times bestselling biographer.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with Sonia Sotomayor's former colleagues, family, friends, and teachers, New York Times bestselling biographer Antonia Felix explores Sotomayor's childhood, the values her parents...
If Kennedy Lived
The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
What if Kennedy were not killed that fateful day? What would the 1964 campaign have looked like? Would changes have been made to the ticket? How would Kennedy, in his second term, have approached Vietnam, civil rights, the Cold War? With Hoover as an enemy, would his indiscreet private life finally...
Write It When I'm Gone
Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
The New York Times bestseller?and the candid voice of an American president
In 1974, Newsweek correspondent Thomas M. DeFrank was interviewing Gerald Ford when the Vice President blurted out something astonishingly indiscreet. He then extracted a promise not to publish it. ?Write it when I?m...
Into the Storm
Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-Defying Adventures in Extreme We ather
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
An eye-of-the-hurricane view of storm chasing from the star of the Discovery Channel hit series Storm Chasers.
Only one in ten chases actually intercept a tornado-unless you're Reed Timmer. The thrill-seeking meteorologist and star of Storm Chasers has followed and faced down more violent tornadoes...
by Ted Botha
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
In The Girl with the Crooked Nose, Ted Botha tells the absorbing story of Frank Bender, a gifted, self-taught artist who can bring back the dead and the vanished through a unique, macabre sculpting talent. Bender has been the key to solving at least nine murders and tracking down numerous criminals....
The Father of Forensics
The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Before there was CSI, there was one man who saw beyond the crime and into the future of forensic science.
His name was Bernard Spilsbury—and, through his use of cutting-edge science, he single-handedly brought criminal investigations into the modern age. Starting out as a young, charismatic physician...
by David Wilkerson, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1986
The dramatic and inspiring true story of a small town minister called to help inner city kids everyone else believed were beyond hope...
David Wilkerson was just a young preacher in the Pennsylvania hills when he was stunned by a new calling from God: go to New York City to speak to seven young...
Perfectly Clear
Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The revelatory memoir by former "poster girl for Scientology" Michelle LeClair about her defection from the Church, her newly accepted sexual identity, and the lengths to which Scientology went to silence it.
For years, Michelle LeClair, former President of Scientology's international...
Pope Francis
Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
An intimate and personal glimpse inside the mind of the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, through his own words...
“I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.”—Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis
Jorge Bergoglio is the first Latin American pope,...
by Peter Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
On March 25, 2001, the nude body of Michelle Lewis, a 39-year-old nun, was discovered in her sleeping quarters at South Florida’s Holy Cross Academy. She had been stabbed 92 times. It wasn’t long before homicide detectives zeroed in on her killer: a young apprentice monk and former Holy Cross...