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Prisoner of Tehran
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life?
In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution.
In...
Reagan, In His Own Hand
The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2001
Until Alzheimer's disease wreaked its gradual destruction, Ronald Reagan was an inveterate writer. He wrote not only letters, short fiction, poetry, and sports stories, but speeches, newspaper articles, and radio commentary on public policy issues, both foreign and domestic.
Most of Reagan's original...
by Richard Brookhiser
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Alexander Hamilton is one of the least understood, most important, and most impassioned and inspiring of the founding fathers. At last Hamilton has found a modern biographer who can bring him to full-blooded life; Richard Brookhiser. In these pages, Alexander Hamilton sheds his skewed image as the...
by Martin Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century.
Winston Churchill, whose mother,...
General Ike
A Personal Reminiscence
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2003
John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike...
Radical Son
A Generational Oddysey
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions.
A Bed of Red Flowers
In Search of My Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Written with compassion, intelligence and insight, A Bed of Red Flowers is a profoundly moving portrait of life under occupation and the unforgettable story of a family, a people and a country.
"The picnic of the red flower" is a traditional time of celebration for Afghans. One of...
Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZ
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.
When twenty-four-year-old...
Losing My Mind
An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2002
When Tom DeBaggio turned fifty-seven in 1999, he thought he was about to embark on the relaxing golden years of retirement -- time to spend with his family, his friends, the herb garden he had spent decades cultivating and from which he made a living. Then, one winter day, he mentioned to his doctor...
Between Expectations
Lessons from a Pediatric Residency
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
When Dr. Meghan Weir first dons her scrubs and steps onto the floor of Children’s Hospital Boston as a newly minted resident, her head is packed with medical-school-textbook learning. She knows the ins and outs of the human body, has memorized the correct way to perform hundreds of complicated procedures,...
by Robert Behnke
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
This beautiful and definitive guide brings together the world's lead leading expert on North American trout and salmon, Robert Behnke, and the foremost illustrator in the field, Joseph Tomelleri.
North America is graced with the greatest diversity of trout and salmon on earth. From tiny brook...
Boltzmanns Atom
The Great Debate That Launched A Revolution In Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
In 1900 many eminent scientists did not believe atoms existed, yet within just a few years the atomic century launched into history with an astonishing string of breakthroughs in physics that began with Albert Einstein and continues to this day. Before this explosive growth into the modern age took...
by Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin has established himself as one of America's most distinctively Catholic voices. We have also come to know Breslin as the cocky guy from Queens, New York, who speaks insolently to powerful people and institutions, his words always tinged with a healthy...
The Book of Mormon Girl
A Memoir of an American Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
From her days of feeling like “a root beer among the Cokes”—Coca-Cola being a forbidden fruit for Mormon girls like her—Joanna Brooks always understood that being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints set her apart from others. But, in her eyes, that made her special;...