Diversion Books: 923 books
Runaway Planet
How Global Warming is Already Changing the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Saving the world won't happen on the silver screen. In our fragile ecosystem, climate change is swiftly becoming the defining issue of how to prepare—and protect—the earth for the future. The climate change debate raged on in America in 2015, but the facts and the science now show irrefutably that...
Belly of the Beast
A POW's Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival Aboard the Infamous WWII Japanese Hell Ship Oryoku Maru
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
**“A searing tribute . . . [to] America in its bleakest hour” (Sen. John McCain, New York Times–bestselling author of Faith of My Fathers).
On December 13, 1944, POW Estel Myers was herded aboard the Japanese prison ship, the Oryoku Maru, with more than sixteen hundred other American...
Son of Bum
Lessons My Dad Taught Me About Football and Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Legendary football coach and Super Bowl champion with the Denver Broncos, Wade Phillips, recalls his life in football and memories of his father, NFL head coach Bum Phillips, in a book perfect for a Father’s Day gift.
“Having played for and against Wade Phillips, the first word that comes...
Come Out Smokin'
Joe Frazier: The Champ Nobody Knew
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
The first book ever to delve into the life of the legendary heavyweight boxing champion.
Acclaimed sportswriter Phil Pepe explores the iconic boxer “Smokin’ Joe” Frazier’s early beginnings. From his dirt poor childhood and relationship with his father to his street fights and Olympic boxing...
by Herman Raucher
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
The international bestselling author of Summer of ’42 delivers a darkly comic love story. “A strange and moving tale with a shocker climax” (The Boston Globe).
Tiger is a nineteen-year-old runaway who comes to the big city to start anew. There she meets Luther, a quirky con artist with...
The Great Society
50 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
A stirring profile of our 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson, who presided over one of the most tumultuous eras in our country’s history.
Lyndon B. Johnson’s unprecedented and ambitious domestic vision in the 1960s changed the nation. It unraveled and restitched the very fabric of the American...
by Sari Horwitz, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
This eye-opening report is the product of a year-long investigation into how the legal system in Indian country fails some of America's most vulnerable citizens—and what is being done to begin to rectify an ongoing tragedy.Sari Horwitz, recipient of the ASNE Award for Distinguished Writing on Diversity,...
by S.E. Hinton
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
From the author of The Outsiders: “Immediate and gripping” tales of two boys whose lives diverge in dramatic ways after a shared childhood tragedy (School Library Journal).
Terry and Mike were cousins who were as close as cousins could be—more like twin brothers, really. They thought...
by Jane Heller
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
“The supremely talented Ms. Heller delivers snappy wit, lush romance, and plenty of surprises… just the thing to spark a romantic adventure of your own. “– DALLAS MORNING NEWS “Riotous, hilarious, but also ruefully dead-on in depicting the dangers of not appreciating one’s mate – warts...
by Gary Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Both the presidency and the constitution are at stake in this tense and shockingly real political thriller.
“Grossman had done lots of research on everything from political infighting to clandestine military operations…[H]olds reader interest right up to the inevitable conclusion.”—Publisher’s...
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
From the bestselling author of THE OUTSIDER Colin Wilson, co-author of the bestselling ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MURDER, has written a definitive volume on the world's major cases of violent murder. In doing so, he traces the history of violence from its beginnings. From Sawney Bean and his cannibal family to...
Obama vs. Romney
The "Take" on Election 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
The Inside Story of the 2012 Presidential CampaignThe presidential campaign of 2012 was one of the closest and most fierce, expensive, and unpredictable in our history, and Washington Post senior political correspondent Dan Balz chronicled every twist.Obama vs. Romney is a collection of 50 dispatches...
To Hatred Turned
Everything Is Bigger in Texas, Including the Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
“Englade (Beyond Reason) here treats a complex Dallas murder case with a master’s touch . . . [A] web of blackmail and hired killers” (Publishers Weekly).
Reporter Ken Englade explores the complex case of Rozanne Gailiunas, a woman in Texas who, in 1983, was the victim of a grisly, unsolved...
by David Dodge
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
This witty novel of a con man on the run, from the author of To Catch a Thief, “ends with a gratifying twist” (Publishers Weekly).
When a handsome swindler working the French Riviera meets a beautiful heiress on the beach at Cannes, sparks fly. But so do bullets—and soon he’s forced to...