Arcade: 311 books
Backbone
Living with Chronic Pain without Turning into One
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
An inspirational, powerful, and funny manual for coping and living with devastating pain.
For two decades, Karen Duffy —New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress— has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. Duffy has...
Poisons
From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean of Calabar
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Poisons permeate our world. They are in the environment, the workplace, the home. They are in food, our favorite whiskey, medicine, and well water. They have been used to cure diseases as well as incapacitate and kill. They smooth wrinkles, block pain, stimulate and enhance athletic ability. In this...
The Stem Cell Dilemma
The Scientific Breakthroughs, Ethical Concerns, Political Tensions, and Hope Surrounding Stem Cell Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Today’s scientists are showing us how stem cells create and repair the human body. Unlocking these secrets has become the new Holy Grail of biomedical research. But behind that search lies a sharp divide, one that has continued for years. Stem cells offer the hope of creating or repairing tissues...
Driving the Future
Combating Climate Change with Cleaner, Smarter Cars
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A distinguished expert offers a dazzling preview of the cars of the future, while exploring the science and politics behind climate change.
As the director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, engineer Margo Oge was the chief architect behind the Obama administration’s...
by Ned O'Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Every once in a while, out of nowhere, a very special person appears with the courage and conviction to change the destiny of others. Such a person is Ned O'Gorman. Wandering in Harlem one day, Ned saw an abandoned storefront and there he met his calling and future: he would start a tuition-free school for the underprivileged.
The Great Expectations School
A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
At the age of twenty-two, Dan Brown came to P.S. 85 as an eager, fresh-faced teacher. He was even as-signed his own class: 4-217. Unbeknownst to him, 4-217 was the designated dumping ground” for all fourth-grade problem cases, and his students would prove to be more challenging than he could have...
Happy Accidents
Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They...
Capital Punishment
An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Billy Wayne Sinclair was only twenty-one when sentenced to death. Because of an accidental shooting, he spent the next forty years in prison. When the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty, Billy was re-sentenced to life without parole. Here, he offers a blistering examination of the death penalty and its origins.
Since My Last Confession
A Gay Catholic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Scott Pomfret serves as a lector at St. Anthony Shrine in Boston. He also writes gay porn. His boyfriend is a flaming atheist, and his boyfriend’s Protestant grandmother considers Catholicism a sin worse than sodomy. From Pentecost to Pride, from the books of the Bible to the articles of the Advocate,...
The Late Interiors
A Life Under Construction
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
At a time in her life when she once thought a person should have been well settled in for the long haul, Sandor and her new beloved set out to being a new life together. They buy an old house on the border between the large university, which employs them both, and a small urban/student wilderness.”...
The Angel Tree
The Enchanting Quest for the World's Oldest Olive Tree
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A serendipitous, fender-bending encounter between the author, a distinguished landscape architect, and a wealthy Frenchman in Provence leads to the strangest, funniest horticultural odyssey in recent memory. The rich, eccentric Frenchman has just finished renovating, with great care and attention,...
Starbucks Nation
A Satirical Novel of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Here is a devastating, hilarious satire of coffee-swilling, celebrity-obsessed Southern California pop culture by one of the freshest new voices in fiction. Morgan Beale has a celebutante, masochist wife and a home being renovated. He begins adapting the latest bestseller, The Chihuahua in the Blue...
by Ingrid Seward
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
So much has been written about Princes William and Harry, yet so little is really known about them. In this biography of the two brothers, Ingrid Seward examines the extraordinary lives of the two men who are second and third in line to the British throne. From the privileged childhood, through the...
Golf
The Marvelous Mania
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Legendary journalist and beloved TV host Alistair Cooke shares his life-long passion for golf in this stunning collection of his best writing on the sport he loved most. On a fateful day in 1964, Alistair Cooke was dragged into Van Cortland Park in New York City to play his first game of golf. He...