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by Anne Rice
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

Anne Rice’s first work of nonfiction—a powerful and haunting memoir that explores her continuing spiritual transformation.   Anne Rice was raised in New Orleans as the devout child in a deeply religious Irish Catholic family. Here, she describes how, as she grew up, she lost her belief in God,...

Desire of the Everlasting Hills

The World Before and After Jesus

by Thomas Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010

From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, his most compelling historical narrative yet. How did an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire come to be the central figure in Western Civilization? Did his influence in fact change the...
by Mourid Barghouti
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE A fierce and moving work and an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament. Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile—shuttling among the...

The Locust and the Bird

My Mother's Story

by Hanan al-Shaykh
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila.   Married at a young age against her will, Kamila soon fell head-over-heels in love with another man—and was thus forced to choose between her children...

A Godly Hero

The Life of William Jennings Bryan

by Michael Kazin
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. Politician, evangelist, and reformer William Jennings Bryan was the most popular public speaker of his time. In this acclaimed biography—the first major reconsideration of...

The Bread of Angels

A Journey to Love and Faith

by Stephanie Saldana
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010

A riveting memoir about one woman's journey into Syria under the Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers searching for meaning. When Stephanie Saldaña arrives in Damascus, she is running away from a broken heart and a haunted family history that she has crossed the...

Mao

Mao

The Unknown Story

by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011

The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It...

Island of Vice

Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York

by Richard Zacks
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012

A ROLLICKING NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EMBATTLED TENURE AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF CORRUPT, PLEASURE-LOVING NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1880s, AND HIS DOOMED MISSION TO WIPE OUT VICE In the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and...

Eisenhower

The White House Years

by Jim Newton
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011

**“Newton's contribution is as cogent an inventory of Eisenhower's White House years as I've ever read. He blends masterful writing with historic detail and provides the value-added of Ike as the man and the leader.” —Chuck Hagel, Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University; U.S. Senator...
by Peter Ackroyd
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012

Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political fantasy that  gave a name to a literary genre and a worldview (Utopia);...

Love and Louis XIV

The Women in the Life of the Sun King

by Antonia Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

Louis XIV, the highly-feted “Sun King”, was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women—his...
by Flora Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009

From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon's favorite sister, with color photos, paintings, and illustrations.   Considered by many in Europe to be the most beautiful woman at the turn of the nineteenth century, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese shocked the continent with the...
by Tina Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007

Years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she “the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Only Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief...

Marie Antoinette

The Journey

by Antonia Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002

France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake," was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime. For centuries since, she has been the object of debate, speculation, and the fascination so often accorded illustrious figures in...
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