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by Andrew Morton
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1999
Behind the headlines, there was one fascinating woman. This is her story.
Monica Lewinsky. You know her name, you know her face, and you think you know her story: the pretty young intern who began an illicit affair with the President of the United States-- a liaison that ignited an unprecedented...
The Whistleblower
Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world travel, and the chance to help rebuild a war-torn country sounded like the perfect job. Bolkovac...
The Kennedy Curse
Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2004
Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been doubly horrified by the familiar pattern in the tragedy....
The Southern Tiger
Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos provides a fascinating glimpse inside his country's meteoric rise on the world stage. A leader in the underground resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet and his Dirty War, Ricardo Lagos burst onto the national stage in 1988 when he gave a speech denouncing...
Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary
A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
"In this lively and clearly written book, Kevin Gutzman makes a compelling case for the broad range and radical ambitions of Thomas Jefferson's commitment to human equality." - Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winning author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Though...
Where There's Hope
Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller (October 2013), My Story—about being held in captivity as a teenager, and how she managed to survive—with a powerful and inspiring book about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim one’s life.
Author....
I Believe in ZERO
Learning from the World's Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
First-hand, human stories of hope, resilience, determination, and family: a call to see the world's children as our own, by the President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF
In I Believe in ZERO, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, an organization known for its decades of charity...
Hidden Soldier
An Irish Legionnaire’s Wars from Bosnia to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Pádraig O’Keeffe joined the elite and secretive French Foreign Legion at the age of twenty, seeking a challenge that would absorb his interests and intensity. He served with the Legion in Cambodia and Bosnia, then returned to civilian life, but military habits would not allow him to settle.
His...
Hot Lights, Cold Steel
Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed...
The Boy in the Moon
A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2011
"[A]n intimate glimpse into the life of a family that cares around the clock for a disabled child, that gets so close to the love and despair, and the complex questions the life of such a child raises...It is a beautiful book, heartfelt and profound,...
Marie Curie and Her Daughters
The Private Lives of Science's First Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A new portrait of the two-time Nobel winner and her two daughters
Focusing on the first family in science, this biography of Marie Curie plumbs the recesses of her relationships with her two daughters, extraordinary in their own right, and presents the legendary scientist to us in a fresh way.
Although...
Mercies in Disguise
A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
"[Kolata] is a gifted storyteller. Her account of the Baxleys... is both engrossing and distressing... Kolata's book raises crucial questions about knowledge that can be both vital and fatal, both pallative and dangerous." —Andrew Solomon, The New York Review of Books
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On Call
A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine...
Patient by Patient
Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Patient by Patient is the memoir of a young doctor, fresh from residency, as she explores the joys and frustrations of beginning her medical practice. As she strives to help her patients face a range of challenges from the humorous to the profoundly devastating she learns that while medical school...