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Red Heat

Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean

by Alex Von Tunzelmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011

The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them on During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson,...

A House in Corfu

A Family's Sojourn in Greece

by Emma Tennant
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003

The story of an unspoiled island and an English family making a home by the Aegean Sea. In the early 1960s Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there. This book is the story of that house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend...

A Taste for Intrigue

The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand

by Philip Short
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

The man who changed the course of modern France In 1981, François Mitterrand became France's first popularly elected socialist president. By the time he completed his mandate, he had led the country for 14 years, longer than any other French head of state in modern times. Mitterrand mirrored...

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work

Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

by Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

The New York Times bestseller about what would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, in...

A Whole New Ball Game

The Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

by Sue Macy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013

"Play ball!" yelled the umpires as the teams of the AAGPBL took the field in the tense, war-torn days of 1943. Like all professional baseball players, these athletes scrambled to their positions, tossed balls across diamonds, and filled the air with chatter. But there was something different...

What Makes Olga Run?

The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives

by Bruce Grierson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

A fascinating look at the way we age today and the extent to which we can shape the process In What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson explores what the wild success of a ninety-four-year-old track star can tell us about how our bodies and minds age. Olga Kotelko is not your average ninety-four-year-old....

My Mother's Kitchen

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life

by Peter Gethers
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017

My Mother's Kitchen is a funny, moving memoir about a son’s discovery that his mother has a genius for understanding the intimate connections between cooking, people and love Peter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a spectacular feast featuring...

The Thirtymile Fire

A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal

by John N. Maclean
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

A riveting account of the deadly Thirtymile fire and the controversy and recriminations that raged in its aftermath, from our premier chronicler of wildfires and those who fight them The Thirtymile fire in the remote North Cascade range near the Canadian border in Washington began as a simple...
by Bryan Bunch
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001

Just as bird guides help watchers tell birds apart by their color, songs, and behavior, The Kingdom of Infinite Number is the perfect handbook for identifying numbers in their native habitat. Taking a field guide-like approach, it offers a fresh way of looking at individual numbers and the properties...
by Richard North Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Can an honest man become president? In this timely and provocative novel, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio—is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce...
by Emily Raboteau
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013

A daughter's future and her father's past converge in Emily Raboteau's explosive first novel exploring identity, assimilation, and the legacy of race "My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable." When Emma Boudreaux's older brother, Bernie, winds up in...
by Scott Cheshire
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

A Washington Post Top 50 of 2014 Fiction pick A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year, selected by Phil Klay Electric Literature 2014: Year of the Debut A Largehearted Boy Favorite Novel of 2014 Slaughterhouse 90210's Most Rapturous Book of 2014 Vol. 1 Brooklyn A Year of Favorites: Jason Diamond picks Called...
by Salman Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000

Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece. At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus...
by Lillian Li
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018

Named a Must-Read by TIME, Buzzfeed, The Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, Fast Company, The Village Voice, Toronto Star, Fortune Magazine, InStyle, and O, The Oprah Magazine "A joy to read**—**I couldn't get enough." **—**Buzzfeed "This novel practically thumps with...
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