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The General vs. the President
MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II.
At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that...
by James Surowiecki
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A year ago it would have been difficult to conceive of an anthology of stories soley devoted to corporate malfeasance. Today, the challenge has been to keep it confined to one volume. From P.J. O’Rourke’s hilarious “How To Stuff A Wild Enron,” in which he compares trying to understand Enron’s...
by Aimee Bender
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
"Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." --The New York Times Book Review
Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love...
Cherries in Winter
My Family's Recipe for Hope in Hard Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
What is the secret to finding hope in hard times?
When Suzan Colón was laid off from her dream job at a magazine during the economic downturn of 2008, she needed to cut her budget way, way back, and that meant home cooking. Her mother suggested, “Why don’t you look in Nana’s recipe folder?”...
by Lisa Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and...
From Midnight to Dawn
The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history...
The Idealist
Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Bloomberg • Forbes • The Spectator
Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award**
A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty
"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew...
Invasion of Privacy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
**One woman's quest to discover the truth behind her husband's death will pit her against a new generation of cutting-edge surveillance technology and the most dangerous conspiracy in America—*Invasion of Privacy *is the riveting, new standalone suspense novel from New York Times bestselling...
by Debra J. Dickerson
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
A profoundly courageous and insightful memoir, An American Storydocuments the events that have shaped journalist Debra Dickerson's conscience.
The daughter of former sharecroppers, Dickerson never imagined she would emerge from her squalid St. Louis neighborhood to become an acclaimed journalist...
Traditional Baking
The Foxfire Americana Library (2)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The Foxfire Americana Library brings you back-to-basics recipes for breads, cornbreads, puddings, cakes, and pies that are just as easily baked on a modern oven as the traditional Appalachian woodstoves where they began. For adventurous cooks, this volume also includes instructions and diagrams on...
Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would...
Unplayable Lies
(The Only Golf Book You'll Ever Need)
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In Unplayable Lies, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of the links as only he can do it. Here, Dan delves into the greatest rounds of golf he's ever seen, the funniest things said on a golf course, the rivalries on tour and in the press box, the game's most magical moments--and its most absurd. Filled...
AIDS Sutra
Untold Stories from India
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
In this groundbreaking anthology, sixteen renowned writers tell the hidden story of the AIDS crisis, illuminating the complex nature of one of the major problems facing the developing world. India is home to almost 3 million HIV cases, but AIDS is still stigmatized and shrouded in denial. Discrimination...
by Harold S. Kushner
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it.
An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises. In uncertain times, coping with these fears can be especially challenging, but in this...