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Is Wine the Best Medicine?
And Other Facts & Myths About Food & Drink
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Original published as part of DOCTOR CHOPRA SAYS.
WE'VE ALL SEEN THE HEADLINES:
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
- A glass of wine a day helps prevent heart disease!
- Drinking coffee lowers your risk for liver cancer!
BUT WHAT SHOULD WE BELIEVE?
ONCE UPON A TIME, maintaining...
by Mary E. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Roseanna Plow is perfectly content with her nice, simple life on Long Island, despite the fact that she's being driven slowly insane by her meddling mother, who resembles Donna Reed on drugs. Rosie is very happy with her handsome husband and a fulfilling career as job counselor for the developmentally...
When Britain Burned the White House
The 1814 Invasion of Washington
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world's greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal still sitting...
The House of Dreams
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In 2000, Sophie Cass, an ambitious journalist, may have finally found her big break. Convinced a celebrated painter in the Hamptons is hiding a dark secret, she sets off to unravel the truth about his past. Her research takes her back decades to 1940, as an international group of artists and intellectuals...
The Last Rose of Summer
The Short Story Prequel to the International Bestselling Novel The Perfume Garden
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
A short story prequel to the international bestselling novel The Perfume Garden
With The Last Rose of Summer, Kate Lord Brown immerses readers in the rich, sensual world of modern Valencia, Spain, where an abandoned villa holds the key to a woman's past, and her daughter's future.
It's...
Scurvy
How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of the royal medical elite, who endorsed ludicrous medical...
by Richard Rudgley
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
For all those who might like to believe that drug use has been relegated to the suburban rec rooms and ghetto crack houses of the late twentieth century, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances offers shocking, yet thoroughly enlightening evidence to the contrary. In fact, from Neolithic man to...
The Fighting Irish
The Story of the Extraordinary Irish Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
"Tells the story of the Irish fighting man with wit, clarity, and scholarship." —Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War
For hundreds of years, Irish soldiers have sought their destiny abroad. Wherever they've traveled, whichever side of the battlefield they've stood, the tales...
Virtual Organisms
The Startling World of Artificial Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Harmless artificial life forms are on the loose on the Internet. Computer viruses and even robots are now able to evolve like their biological counterparts. Telecommunications companies are sending small packets of software to go forth and multiply to cope with ever-increasing telephone traffic. Protein-based...
The Faraway War
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The Communist dictatorship in Cuba has gone to great lengths to conceal from its people the role that many Americans played in the liberation of Cuba from Spanish colonialism. The story of this one brave man, the most respected American hero in Cuban history, is an engaging, enthralling read.
Henry...
A Gathering of Ravens
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Scott Oden's epic novel A Gathering of Ravens is "satisfying...complex...and a pleasure to read" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
To the Danes, he is skraelingr; to the English, he is orcnéas; to the Irish, he is fomoraig. He is Corpse-maker and Life-quencher, the Bringer of Night, the...
On the Road to Kandahar
Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A daring reporter's quest through the "living history" of Islam amid the War on Terrorism.
In 1991, a British university student spent his summer break fighting alongside Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq. Now a prize-winning reporter and author of a book on al Qaeda, Jason Burke...
by Robert Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Today global communism seems just a terrible memory, an expressionist nightmare as horrific as Nazism and the Holocaust, or the slaughter in the First World War. Was it only just over a decade ago that stone-faced old men were still presiding over "workers" paradises in the name of "the...
If Nights Could Talk
A Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
If Nights Could Talk is a rich gothic story of a Southern family, a tale of wealth and emotional need that spans generations. Marsha Recknagel's memoir begins with the surprise appearance of her 16-year-old nephew, Jamie, who arrives on her doorstep and into her ordered, childless life. Fleeing a...