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Waiting for Snow in Havana
Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2003
“Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana—exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at...
John Wayne: American
American
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1995
No American has been more identified with his country than John Wayne. For millions of people from the heartland to the furthest corners of the earth, he simply is America. Wayne virtually defined the role of the cowboy and the soldier, unswervingly playing the gruff man of decency, the hero who would...
Female Chauvinist Pigs
Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
A classic work on gender culture exploring how the women’s movement has evolved to Girls Gone Wild in a new, self-imposed chauvinism. In the tradition of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth, New York Magazine writer Ariel Levy studies the effects of modern feminism on women...
Stealing the Ambassador
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2002
Caught between a father who thought success and freedom could be found only in America and a grandfather who risked his life to guarantee such ideals in their homeland of India, twenty-three-year-old Rajiv Kothari is lost in a nation he has always called home and beckoned by the one his father left...
by Maria Shriver
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Award-winning journalist, First Lady of California, and bestselling author Maria Shriver offers young women a powerful book on how to put your greatest gifts and even your shortcomings to work for you as you begin the rest of your life.
Graduating from high school is a big step for any girl....
Blockbuster
How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
It's a typical summer Friday night and the smell of popcorn is in the air. Throngs of fans jam into air-conditioned multiplexes to escape for two hours in the dark, blissfully lost in Hollywood's latest glittery confection complete with megawatt celebrities, awesome special effects, and enormous marketing...
by Eugene Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself -- yet not even he has been able to control the thoughts and dreams of his people. Those thoughts and dreams are the basis for what may become a post-Castro Cuba. To more...
Mentors, Muses & Monsters
30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Edited and with a contribution by Elizabeth Benedict, thirty of today's brightest literary lights turn their attention to the question of mentorship and influence.
For Denis Johnson, it was Leonard Gardner's cult favorite Fat City; for Jonathan Safran Foer, it was an encounter with Israeli...
One Scandalous Story
Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnishe
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In 1963 Marvin Kalb observed the Secret Service escorting an attractive woman into a hotel for what was most likely a rendezvous with President Kennedy. Kalb, then a news correspondent for CBS, didn't consider the incident newsworthy. Thirty-five years later, Kalb watched in dismay as the press dove...
by Albert E. Cowdrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Fought on almost every continent, World War II confronted American GIs with the unprecedented threats to life and health posed by combat on Arctic ice floes and African deserts, in steamy jungles and remote mountain villages, in the stratosphere and the depths of the sea.
Last Men Out
The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
A “thrilling narrative of bravery, bravado, and loss” (Kirkus Reviews) that tells the “gripping story of a handful of marines who formed the last body of Americans to leave Saigon on April 30, 1975” (Booklist).
In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth of recently...
Jefferson's Demons
Portrait of a Restless Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
"I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of Grief could be intended."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson suffered during his life from periodic bouts of dejection and despair, shadowed intervals during which he was full of "gloomy forebodings" about what lay ahead.
Not...
Cindy in Iraq
A Civilian's Year in the War Zone
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Cindy in Iraq is Cynthia Morgan's hair-raising yet jubilant chronicle of her perilous year in war-torn Iraq as a truck driver -- the most dangerous civilian job in the war zone.
In the summer of 2003, a friend in the National Guard stationed in Iraq wrote to Morgan about KBR, a Halliburton...
Yanks
The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2001
Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring American adventure. The achievements of the United States during that war, often underrated by military historians, were in fact remarkable, and they turned the tide of the conflict. So says John S. D. Eisenhower, one of today's most acclaimed...