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A Carlin Home Companion
Growing Up with George
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Truly the voice of a generation, George Carlin gave the world some of the most hysterical and iconic comedy routines of the last fifty years. From the "Seven Dirty Words" to "A Place for My Stuff," to "Religion is Bullshit," he perfected the art of making audiences double...
Grade My Teacher
A Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The public and private self-images of a high school math teacher uncomfortably collide when she has a coffee date with a student who has posted negative comments about her on grademyteacher.com
The story, Grade My Teacher, set at and around small-town Gifford High School, explores favorite themes of Perrotta's, who Time magazine called the "Steinbeck of surburbia."
by Rhonda Fochs
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Wisconsin has over 200 lost, long ago, and nearly gone places. Why they began, why they faded or died encompasses many issues, many reasons. For Rhonda, her love of lost towns and long ago places began in northern Wisconsin, and in this book, she explores the stories and tales of Wisconsin’s places of the past.
The American Axis
Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh have long been exalted as two of the greatest American icons of the twentieth century. From award-winning journalist Max Wallace comes groundbreaking and astonishing revelations about the poisonous effect these two so-called American heroes had on Western democracy....
A Woman's Place Is at the Top
A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand...
Castle of the Eagles
Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini’s personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by almost two hundred Italian soldiers and a vicious fascist...
The Lotus Quest
In Search of the Sacred Flower
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
A captivating history of one of the world's most iconic and mysterious flowers
Bewitched by a lotus which flowered from three-thousandyear- old seeds in his English garden, Mark Griffiths set out to track the origins and significance of this sublime plant in this beautifully-illustrated book....
The Nazi Séance
The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
World War I left Berlin, and all of Germany, devastated. Charlatans and demagogues eagerly exploited the desperate crowds. Fascination with the occult was everywhere – in private séances, personalized psychic readings, communions with the dead – as people struggled to escape the grim reality...
by Dan Bischoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano is the first biography of the actor who died, in June 2013 at age 51, widely recognized as one of the best—and most defining—actors of his generation. The book is informed by fresh interviews with Sopranos actors, the star's acting...
Paris Between Empires
Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Paris between 1814 and 1852 was the capital of Europe, a city of power and pleasure, a magnet for people of all nationalities that exerted an influence far beyond the reaches of France. Paris was the stage where the great conflicts of the age, between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, revolution and...
The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge
A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A COMPLETE REVISION AND THOROUGH UPDATING OF THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE FROM THE NEWSPAPER OF RECORD.
A comprehensive guide offering insight and clarity on a broad range of even more essential subjects.
Whether you are researching the history of Western art, investigating an obscure medical...
Promote Yourself
The New Rules for Career Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
How people perceive you at work has always been vital to a successful career. Now with the internet, social media, and the unrelenting hum of 24/7 business, the ability to brand and promote yourself is more crucial than ever.
Schawbel shows readers how to navigate this new environment as an...
New Old World
An Indian Journalist Discovers the Changing Face of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
After several years documenting the rise of China, award-winning Indian journalist Pallavi Aiyar moved to Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, to discover a Europe plagued by a financial crisis, and unsure of its place in a world where new Asian challengers are eroding its old and comfortable...
This Borrowed Earth
Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the strikingly poignant accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Minamata...