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William Golding
The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher writing books on his breaks, lunch hours and holidays. His work had been rejected by every major publisher—until an editor at Faber and Faber pulled his manuscript off the rejection pile. This was to become Lord of the Flies, a book that would...
When I Was a Loser
True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
For Anyone Who's Ever Been a Teenager
Who's teenage years weren't terrible? Remember the scary older kids? The sadistic gym teacher? The smelly kid who sat next to you in science class? Your first fumbling kiss? That time you threw up in the cafeteria? Your first attempt at putting on a condom?...
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing...
Girls of Tender Age
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
In Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith fully articulates with great humor and tenderness the wild jubilance of an extended French-Italian family struggling to survive in a post-World War II housing project in Hartford, Connecticut. Smith seamlessly combines a memoir whose intimacy matches that...
We Heard the Heavens Then
A Memoir of Iran
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
ARIA MINU-SEPEHR was raised in a sheltered world of extraordinary privilege as the son of a major general in the Shah’s Imperial Iranian Air Force. It seemed his father could do anything—lead the Golden Crowns in death-defying aerobatic maneuvers; command an air force unit using top American technology;...
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognized the world over, for decades the man himself has been overshadowed by his better understood creation, Sherlock Holmes, who has become one of literature's most enduring characters. Based on thousands of previously unavailable documents, Andrew Lycett,...
My Heart is Boundless
Writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's Mother
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Little Women’s “Marmee” is one of the most recognizable mothers in American literature. But the real woman behind the fiction—Louisa May Alcott’s own mother, Abigail—has for more than a century remained shrouded in mystery. Scholars believed that her papers were burned by her daughter...
Bailout
An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In this riveting account of the mishandling of the TARP bailout fund, a former federal prosecutor offers behind-the-scenes proof of the corrupt ways Washington officials serve the interests of Wall Street.
In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted...
Prisoner of Tehran
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life?
In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution.
In...
Reagan, In His Own Hand
The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2001
Until Alzheimer's disease wreaked its gradual destruction, Ronald Reagan was an inveterate writer. He wrote not only letters, short fiction, poetry, and sports stories, but speeches, newspaper articles, and radio commentary on public policy issues, both foreign and domestic.
Most of Reagan's original...
by Richard Brookhiser
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Alexander Hamilton is one of the least understood, most important, and most impassioned and inspiring of the founding fathers. At last Hamilton has found a modern biographer who can bring him to full-blooded life; Richard Brookhiser. In these pages, Alexander Hamilton sheds his skewed image as the...
General Ike
A Personal Reminiscence
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2003
John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike...
Radical Son
A Generational Oddysey
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions.
A Bed of Red Flowers
In Search of My Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Written with compassion, intelligence and insight, A Bed of Red Flowers is a profoundly moving portrait of life under occupation and the unforgettable story of a family, a people and a country.
"The picnic of the red flower" is a traditional time of celebration for Afghans. One of...