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Thieves of Baghdad
One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Thieves of Baghdad is a riveting account of Colonel Matthew Bogdanos and his team's extraordinary efforts to recover over 5,000 priceless antiquities stolen from the Iraqi National Museum after the fall of Baghdad. A mixture of police procedural, treasure hunt, war-time thriller, and cold-eyed assessment...
Caught in the Middle
America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
The Midwest has always been the heart of America-both its economic bellwether and the repository of its national identity. Now, in a new, globalized age, the Midwest is challenged as never before. With an influx of immigrant workers and an outpouring of manufacturing jobs, the region that defines...
The Lottery Wars
Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle Over an American Institution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Despite the infinitesimal odds, more than half of Americans admit to occasionally playing the lottery. We wait on long lines and give up our coffee breaks. We scratch tickets, win, and spend the winnings on more scratch tickets. We play our "lucky" numbers, week in and week out.
In...
The Soiling of Old Glory
The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Stanley Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting an African American attorney with the American flag. The photo shocked Boston, made front pages across the U.S. and won a Pulitzer...
Comedy at the Edge
How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
When Lenny Bruce overdosed in 1966, he left behind an impressive legacy of edgy, politically charged comedy. Four short years later, a new breed of comic, inspired by Bruce's artistic fearlessness, made telling jokes an art form, forever putting to rest the stereotype of the one-liner borscht belt...
The Crooked Maid
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of denazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble.
Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier upon discovering her husband's infidelity. She has come back to find him...
Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation
Grantchester Mysteries 5
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Grantchester Mysteries 5
The eagerly anticipated fifth installment in the Grantchester mystery series, now a major PBS television series.
It's the summer of love in late 1960s. The Apollo 11 astronauts are preparing to land on the moon, the war in Biafra dominates the news and Basil...
S Street Rising
Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
During the height of the crack epidemic that decimated the streets of D.C., Ruben Castaneda covered the crime beat for the Washington Post. The first in his family to graduate from college, he had landed a job at one of the country's premier newspapers. But his apparent success masked a devastating...
50 Licks
Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Behold the Rolling Stones: run-ins with the law, chart-topping successes, and now the World's Greatest Continually Operating Rock and Roll Band. 50 Licks tells the story of the Stones, right from its very origins.
On July 12, 1962, London's Marquee Club debuted a new act, a blues-inflected...
Another Little Piece of My Heart
My Life of Rock and Revolution in the '60s
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
"A deeply felt and largely compelling portrait of an age that indelibly marked everyone who took part in it. Indispensable for understanding the culture of the '60s and the music that was at its heart." - starred review, Kirkus Reviews
In 1966, at the ripe age of 22, Richard Goldstein...
by Samantha Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
In the New York Times bestselling second novel in the epic Bone Season series, Paige Mahoney may have broken out of prison, but neither the government nor her prison guards are going to let her escape so easily.
It is a dark time for clairvoyants in London. Scion, the ruling government, is...
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Paradise.
Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night...
Respect Yourself
Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal,...
Physics on the Fringe
Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of "outsider physicists," many without formal training and all convinced that they have found true alternative theories of the universe. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own...