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She Got Up Off the Couch
And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2006
The # 1 New York Times bestseller A Girl Named Zippy was a rare and welcome treat: a memoir of a happy childhood. Spunky, strong-willed, and too smart for her own good, Zippy Jarvis brought readers delight and joy. In She Got Up Off the Couch, Haven Kimmel invites us to rejoin the quirky and hilarious...
Superman Is Jewish?
How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
From a brilliant and witty comic book aficionado, this “scholarly but lively narrative” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the links between Jews and the iconic superheroes of Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby.
Many of us know that thesuperheroes at the heart of the American comic...
I'm Off Then
Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
I'm Off Then has sold more than three million copies in Germany and has been translated into eleven languages. The number of pilgrims along the Camino has increased by 20 percent since the book was published. Hape Kerkeling's spiritual journey has struck a chord.
Overweight, overworked, and...
Comeback Season
How I Learned to Play the Game of Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
In Comeback Season, Cathy Day, author of the highly praised novel The Circus in Winter, tells the heartwarming story of how she got back in the game of love -- thanks to her favorite football team, the Indianapolis Colts.
In 2005, Day, an Indiana native, moves to Pittsburgh to start her dream...
It's All About You
Live the Life You Crave
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Get more time, get more organized, get more money, get more energy, and get more joy out of your life.
Being a mother is amazing, although motherhood is not always easy. Getting the kids off to day care and school every weekday morning, juggling all of your to-dos while trying to fit in time...
The Radleys
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Just about everyone knows a family like the Radleys. Many of us grew up next door to one. They are a modern family, averagely content, averagely dysfunctional, living in a staid and quiet suburban English town. Peter is an overworked doctor whose wife, Helen, has become increasingly remote and uncommunicative....
Rock & Roll Jihad
A Muslim Rock Star's Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
"The story you are about to read is the story of a light-bringer....Salman Ahmad inspires me to reach always for the greatest heights and never to fear....Know that his story is a part of our history."
-- Melissa Etheridge, from the Introduction
With 30 million record sales under his belt,...
Waiting for Snow in Havana
Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2003
“Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana—exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at...
John Wayne: American
American
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1995
No American has been more identified with his country than John Wayne. For millions of people from the heartland to the furthest corners of the earth, he simply is America. Wayne virtually defined the role of the cowboy and the soldier, unswervingly playing the gruff man of decency, the hero who would...
Female Chauvinist Pigs
Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
A classic work on gender culture exploring how the women’s movement has evolved to Girls Gone Wild in a new, self-imposed chauvinism. In the tradition of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth, New York Magazine writer Ariel Levy studies the effects of modern feminism on women...
Stealing the Ambassador
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2002
Caught between a father who thought success and freedom could be found only in America and a grandfather who risked his life to guarantee such ideals in their homeland of India, twenty-three-year-old Rajiv Kothari is lost in a nation he has always called home and beckoned by the one his father left...
by Maria Shriver
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Award-winning journalist, First Lady of California, and bestselling author Maria Shriver offers young women a powerful book on how to put your greatest gifts and even your shortcomings to work for you as you begin the rest of your life.
Graduating from high school is a big step for any girl....
Blockbuster
How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
It's a typical summer Friday night and the smell of popcorn is in the air. Throngs of fans jam into air-conditioned multiplexes to escape for two hours in the dark, blissfully lost in Hollywood's latest glittery confection complete with megawatt celebrities, awesome special effects, and enormous marketing...
by Eugene Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself -- yet not even he has been able to control the thoughts and dreams of his people. Those thoughts and dreams are the basis for what may become a post-Castro Cuba. To more...