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On Being Certain
Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
You recognize when you know something for certain, right? You "know" the sky is blue, or that the traffic light had turned green, or where you were on the morning of September 11, 2001--you know these things, well, because you just do.
In On Being Certain, neurologist Robert Burton...
The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection
The Instant New York Times Bestseller
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.
“An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores...
The Favored Daughter
One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has defined her life ever since. Despite the abuse of her family, the exploitative Russian and...
Vanished
A Story of betrayal, Murder, and a father's Dying Wish
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Jana Carpenter Koklich and Bruce Koklich seemed like the ideal couple. She was an attractive 41-year-old blonde, the doted-on only child of a once-powerful California state senator. He was the dedicated and loving husband. Together they owned a lucrative Norwalk, California, real estate business,...
If I Can't Have You
Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In If I Can't Have You, bestselling author Gregg Olsen and co-author Rebecca Morris investigate one of the 21st Century's most puzzling disappearances and how it resulted in the murder of two children by their father.
Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the eyes...
Death in the Long Grass
A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1978
As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters.
Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick...
Peter Capstick's Africa
A Return To The Long Grass
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1987
Peter Hathaway Capstick is a name synonymous with excitement, danger, and high adventure. Sportsman, adventurer, raconteur par excellence, Capstick has been recognized as a modern-day master of African hunting literature—a successor to the works of Hemingway and Robert Ruark.
Capstick has...
The Draft
A Year Inside the NFL's Search for Talent
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
An explosive look at the NFL Draft from the inside out that exposes the multilayered feeding frenzy that swarms around America's top college players.
The Draft follows a handful of NFL hopefuls through the ups and downs of the 2004 college football season and the predraft process, culminating...
by Jerry Barca
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Perhaps the best undefeated team in the history of college football—the dramatic true story of the 1988 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their incredible unbeaten season
Unbeatable is the first book to tell the complete story of the incredible 1988 season that brought the fledgling Fighting...
4th and Goal Every Day
Alabama's Relentless Pursuit of Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
With a Preface by Alabama Football Coach Nick Saban and a Foreword by ESPN's College Gameday Host Rece Davis.
**In 2017, Alabama won its fifth national title during Coach Nick Saban's tenure. This is Saban's sixth national title win as a coach. He'**s now tied with Bear Bryant for coach with...
When Things Get Dark
A Mongolian Winter's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
At 23, Matt Davis moved to a remote Mongolian town to teach English.What he found when he arrived was a town—and a country—undergoing wholesale change from a traditional, countryside existence to a more urban, modern identity. When Things Get Dark documents these changes through the Mongolians...
Marching Powder
A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Australian journalist went to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. They formed an instant...
Plane Insanity
A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's 92 degrees in the cabin and someone forgot to use deodorant. A baby screams. A kid kicks the back of your seat. After two hours you haven't even left the taxiway. Welcome to modern airline travel! In Plane Insanity, Elliott...
Die Happy
499 Things Every Guy's Gotta Do While He Still Can
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Attention, guys of America: It's time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding—never set down your beer). Your days of freedom are numbered. Every guy owes it to himself to do something audacious, ostentatious, hilarious, or just plain fun before it's...