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A History of Women in America

From Founding Mothers to Feminists-How Women Shaped the Life and Culture of America

by Carol Hymowitz, Michaele Weissman
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011

From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed the roles and lives of women in our society. Note: This edition does not include photographs.

The Much Too Promised Land

America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace

by Aaron David Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008

For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors has given him a unique perspective on a problem that American leaders have wrestled with...

Killing Hitler

The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death

by Roger Moorhouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006

For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history. Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of...
by Matthew Brzezinski
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004

Heavily armed guards at the entrances to malls and restaurants. Citizens deemed “suspicious” taken away without formal charges or legal counsel. Would a “safe” America even look like America anymore? One of the few journalists to penetrate the new counter terror initiative, Matthew...

The X President

A Novel

by Philip Baruth
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003

A masterful blend of political satire and edgy social commentary, here is a wildly entertaining trip through recent American history and into the impending future. An incisive look at how we love and hate our political leaders, and how they love and hate us back, The X President touches the very heart...

Los Alamos

A Novel

by Joseph Kanon
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read.”—The Denver Post WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret....
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2004

It's "one for all and all for one!" as D'Artagnan and his three pals follow a course of swashbuckling intrigue and adventure in 17th-centry France.  
by David A. Clary
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009

A war that started under questionable pretexts. A president who is convinced of his country’s might and right. A military and political stalemate with United States troops occupying a foreign land against a stubborn and deadly insurgency. The time is the 1840s. The enemy is Mexico. And the...

Radigan

A Novel

by Louis L'Amour
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

When beautiful Angelina Foley presents Tom Radigan with a Spanish grant and claims ownership of his land, he realizes he’s up against a cunning and deadly opportunist. Foley wants him off Vache Creek immediately, and with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and winter...

Growing Girls

The Mother of All Adventures

by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009

Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most deeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, most terrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all…. A...

The Exact Same Moon

Fifty Acres and a Family

by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009

In Fifty Acres and a Poodle, Jeanne Marie Laskas described how she survived her first hilariously tumultuous year at Sweetwater Farm. Now she returns with a funny, touching, and personal new memoir of what happens after your dream comes true... With a picture-postcard farm, a wonderful marriage,...

Hands of Life

Use Your Body's Own Energy Medicine for Healing, Recovery, and Transformation

by Julie Motz
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009

Julie Motz takes us on an extraordinary journey into a revolutionary form of healing. Five months after she began treating patients recuperating from open-heart surgery, she became a pioneer, crossing into uncharted territory--the first alternative healer to work on a surgical patient whose dying...

Extraordinary Knowing

Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind

by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007

In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayer’s familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser—a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to...

Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart

A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

by Christopher Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014

**NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES • London’s wiliest detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are on the case in this fiendishly clever mystery. And when a cemetery becomes the scene of a crime, neither secrets—nor bodies—stay buried.   Romain Curtis sneaks...
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