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Through the Perilous Fight
Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history, Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation and inspired its National Anthem.
In the summer of 1814, the...
Little Green Men
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little Green Men, a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits . . . and how much they have...
by Austin Reed
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America.
“[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part...
Feeding My Mother
Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Based on her hugely popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding My Mother is a frank, funny, inspirational and piercingly honest account of the transformation in Jann Arden's life that has turned her into the primary "parent" to her mom, who is in...
The Syringa Tree
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this heartrending and inspiring novel set against the gorgeous, vast landscape of South Africa under apartheid, award-winning playwright Pamela Gien tells the story of two families–one black, one white–separated by racism, connected by love.
Even at the age of six, lively, inquisitive...
An Honourable Englishman
The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
He was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation—a brilliant writer, high-society star, and cultural force who moved easily between aristocratic houses and the humble haunts of literary bohemia. He developed a lucid prose style that he used to scathing effect, earning notoriety for his sharp...
Feeding a Yen
Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the “continental cuisine” palaces he used to refer to as La Maison de la Casa House—nor of their successors, the trendy spots he calls “sleepy-time...
Talk to Me
Listening Between the Lines
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
Anna Deavere Smith, the award-winning playwright and actor, has spent a lifetime listening—really listening—to the people around her. As a child in the segregated Baltimore of the early 1960s, Smith absorbed the words of her parents, teachers, neighbors—even train conductors—and realized that...
by Mike Allen, Evan Thomas, Politico
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Two of America’s most perceptive political reporters join forces for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the race for the White House in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012, a series of four instant digital books on the 2012 presidential election. The second edition, Inside the Circus, pulls back...
The Company Car
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
An award-winning author has created his most expansive work to date–a captivating family epic, a novel that moves effortlessly from past to present on its journey to the truth of how we grow out of, away from, and into our parents.
“Are we there yet?” It’s the time-honored question...
The Carpenter's Gift
A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Family, friendship, and the spirit of giving are at the heart of this inspiring picture book. Opening in Depression-era New York, The Carpenter's Gift tells the story of eight-year-old Henry and his out-of-work father selling Christmas trees in Manhattan. They give one of their leftover trees to construction...
Amazing Peace
A Christmas Poem
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths.
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels...
by Sarah Dunant
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Elizabeth is a modern woman. Smart. Independent. As sexual as she wants to be–with whomever she wants to be. But a breakup with her academic boyfriend has hit her harder than she cares to admit. And while her latest gig, translating a glitzy Czech thriller into English, offends her literary sensibilities,...
Life Stories
How I Came Into My Inheritance & Strangers in the House
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Here are two acclaimed memoirs in one remarkable volume. In an extraordinarily compelling voice, Dorothy Gallagher tells stories taking us from her parents’ beginnings in the Ukraine to her own childhood in 1940s New York, through the many adventures of her extended family and into her own adult...