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Pope John XXIII
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization.
Elected to the papacy at the age of 76, Pope John XXIII was to have a brief but important reign. Although he had a doctorate in theology, his gifts were pastoral—reaching out to the people of the Church. After his doctorate, he...
Reluctant Saint
The Life of Francis of Assisi
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto strips away the legends from the life of Francis of Assisi to reveal the true story of a man who has too often been obscured by pious iconography. Drawing on unprecedented access to unexplored archives, plus Francis's own letters, Spoto places Francis within the context...
The Audacity to Win
How Obama Won and How We Can Beat the Party of Limbaugh, Beck, and Palin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
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David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy...
Comandante
Hugo Chávez's Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The inside story of Hugo Chavez’s rule and complex legacy
Few leaders in our time have been as divisive and enigmatic as the late Hugo Chavez. In Comandante, acclaimed journalist Rory Carroll tells the inside story of Chavez’s life, his time as Venezuela’s president, and his legacy. Based...
Saint Therese of Lisieux
A Penguin Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2003
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twenty-four, became-through her posthumously published autobiography-one of the world's most influential religious figures. In Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, bestselling novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison,...
The Iron Lady
Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The Iron Lady, the definitive Margaret Thatcher biography, is available just in time for the movie starring Meryl Streep as one of the most infamous figures in postwar politics.
Whether you love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher's impact on twentieth-century history is undeniable. From her...
James the Brother of Jesus
The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
James was a vegetarian, wore only linen clothing, bathed daily at dawn in cold water, and was a life-long Nazirite. In this profound and provocative work of scholarly detection, eminent biblical scholar Robert Eisenman introduces a startling theory about the identity of James-the brother of Jesus,...
Cut Me Loose
Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted, an electrifying memoir about a young woman's promiscuous and self-destructive spiral after being cast out of her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family
Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, a fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox Judaism....
Wake Up
A Life of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and their expression in his writing from Mexico City Blues to The Dharma Bums. Published for the first time in book form, Wake Up is Kerouac’s...
Redeemed
Stumbling Toward God, Sanity, and the Peace That Passes AllUnderstanding
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
After decades of living on the edge, Heather King settled into sobriety, marriage, and a financially lucrative but unfulfilling career as an upwardly mobile lawyer. As someone who had reached middle age "never believing in much of anything,"she found herself in the last place she thought...
The Wars of the Roses
The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets and The Templars chronicles the next chapter in British history—the historical backdrop for Game of Thrones
The inspiration for the Channel 5 series Britain's Bloody Crown
The crown of England changed hands five times over...
Eleanor of Aquitaine
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1991
"Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point of view: a woman's point of view."-Allene Talmey, Vogue.
by Sarah Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
An icon remembered in death as vividly as she appeared in life, Diana, Princess of Wales, is one of the most enduring personalities of the twentieth century-and one of the most enigmatic. With exclusive access to all those closest to Diana, Sarah Bradford now casts aside the gossip and lies and takes...
Dalai Lama, My Son
A Mother's Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
In this fascinating memoir the Dalai Lama’s mother tells a compelling woman’s story. With vivid and intimate details, she recounts her life’s humble beginning, the customs and rituals of old Tibet, the births of her sixteen children (only seven of whom survived), learning her son’s remarkable...