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by Mildred Newman, Bernard Berkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
The key to a full life—awaken the dreamer within you!
It is not easy to let go the outworn life dreams of childhood. Courage and uncompromising honesty with oneself make possible the moment of awakening. It is necessary to be aware of and to fight the recurring temptation to go back to the...
by Andy Rooney
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Andy Rooney's syndicated newspaper columns and cantankerous "60 Minutes" essays have made him one of the best known curmudgeons in America. Rooney writes about almost everything, boasting in the introduction to Not That You Asked . . . : "There's something in this book that will irritate...
Rosewater (Movie Tie-in Edition)
A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART | Previously published as Then They Came for Me
When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did...
Until We Are Free
My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now Ebadi tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government out to...
The Moral Intelligence of Children
How To Raise A Moral Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the bestselling The Spiritual Life of Children now explores how to develop character in children, from infancy through the teenage years. During three stages in the "moral archaeology of childhood, " Coles shows how to spot moral crossroads, and what to do about them.
The Man on Mao's Right
From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhu’s The Man on Mao’s Right. Having served Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist leadership for two decades, and having become a key figure in...
Too Close to Call
The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2001
From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six...
Virginity or Death!
And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“As this book, which is greater than the sum of its brilliant parts makes clear, Katha Pollitt, who is famously a feminist, is also a humorist, a moralist and a most hilarious, wise, and incisive observer.”
–Victor Navasky, author of A Matter of Opinion
Through presidential administrations...
Mommy Wars
Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post,...
Licks of Love
Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New England of Couples and Marry Me, and Henry Bech’s Manhattan of artistic ambition and taunting...
The Impeachers
The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
“This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America
When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated...
by Andrea Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
“A subtly crafted reflection of both the bleak and golden shadings of Russian life . . . Its tones belong more to the realm of poetry than journalism.” –The New York Times Book Review
At age twenty-five, Andrea Lee joined her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, for...
Amazing Peace
A Christmas Poem
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths.
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels...
Young Radicals
In the War for American Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, the stunning story of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them
“Inspiring and entertaining.”—David Brooks, The New York Times
“It’s not difficult to...