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Orders to Kill
The Putin Regime and Political Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin’s reign that even includes...
by Richard Lourie
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.
"A master chronicler of modern Russia. Drawing on his own expertise, Lourie paints...
The Road to Cooperstown
A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Every true baseball fan dreams of visiting Cooperstown. Some make the trip as boys, when the promise of a spot in the lineup with the Yankees or Red Sox or Tigers glows on the horizon, as certain as the sunrise. Some go later in life, long after their Little League years, to glimpse the past, not...
Paw Prints at Owl Cottage
The Heartwarming True Story of One Man and His Cats
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The ideal book for fans of All Creatures Great and Small, this sweet and touching tale about the power of pets will touch the hearts of all who read it
Readers who fondly recall James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small will applaud the second coming of this beloved author in Denis O'Connor,...
In Praise of Hatred
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In 1980s Syria, a young Muslim girl lives a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents. Her three aunts-the pious Maryam, the liberal Safaa, and the free-spirited Marwa-raise her with the aid of their ever-devoted blind servant.
Soon the high walls of the...
World Enough and Time
The Life of Andrew Marvell
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Although the century which followed Andrew Marvell's death remembered him primarily as a politician and a pamphleteer, this gifted poet is responsible for some of the most brilliant lyric exploration of his time. World Enough and Time is an extensive biography written by Nicholas Murray, a biographer whose literary scholarship and political astuteness matches that of his subject.
The Way We Die Now
The View from Medicine's Front Line
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors, and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope....
Everything Asian
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
You're twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is miserable. Your mother isn't exactly happy, either. You're seeing your father for the first time in five years, and although he's nice enough, he might be, well--how...
This Divided Island
Life, Death, and the Sri Lankan War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Samanth Subramanian has written about politics, culture, and history for the New York Times and the New Yorker. Now, Subramanian takes on a complex topic that touched millions of lives in This Divided Island.
In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing...
The Last Days of Europe
Epitaph for an Old Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
• In Brussels in 2004, more than 55 percent of the children born were of immigrant parents
• Half of all female scientists in Germany are childless
• According to a poll in 2005, more than 40 percent of British Muslims said Jews were a legitimate target for terrorist attacks
What happens...
The Future of Terrorism
ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Alt-Right
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
An expert on terrorism and an expert on counterterrorism answer the two questions everyone is asking about the rise of terrorism today: why is this happening, and when will it end?
Since the death of bin Laden in 2011, ISIS has risen, al-Qaeda has expanded its reach, and right-wing extremists...
101 Damnations
The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2002
Dear flappable reader:
Do you bristle at a handshake that resembles a limp fish? Do oblivious pedestrians bring you to the brink? What about museum gift shops, superfluous courtesy (do we need a gas pump to show us gratitude?), behemoth SUVS, or inexplicable operating manuals? Have you had it with...
In Praise of Idleness
The Classic Essay with a New Introduction by Bradley Trevor Greive
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Bertrand Russell is considered “the Voltaire of his time,” and Bradley Trevor Greive is considered one of the funniest people of his. Russell was a Nobel Laureate, and Greive is a New York Times bestselling author. Together, with Russell bringing the philosophy and Greive bringing the hilarious...
Night Blindness
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A future as bright as the stars above the Connecticut shore lay before Jensen Reilly and her high school sweetheart, Ryder, until the terrible events of an October night left Jensen running from her family and her first love. Over the years that followed, Jensen buried her painful past, and now, married...