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American Nightmare
The History of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life--and outlined draconian punishments...
Little White Lies, Deep Dark Secrets
The Truth About Why Women Lie
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
From the bestselling author of Tripping the Prom Queen comes a fascinating and provocative look at the reasons behind female deception. Little White Lies, Deep Dark Secrets reveals how society doles out mixed messages to women, fostering the lies they tell. Among the liars are:
•A woman who...
Anne Sexton
The Last Summer
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2001
Striking photos of the alluring, defiant, and mesmerizing poet Anne Sexton-many published for the first time in this exclusive collection-taken during the last summer of her life, before her suicide on October 4, 1974
According to those who knew her best, Anne Sexton was always preparing for...
Mission Al-Jazeera
Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Blending his riveting personal story with innovative ideas about how to win the war on terror, former marine turned Al Jazeera reporter Josh Rushing addresses all the issues he was not allowed to talk about when he was in uniform. If we are to win the war on terror, Rushing explains, we have to interact...
The Unexpected Patriot
How an Ordinary American Mother Is Bringing Terrorists to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
After 9/11, when the nation was still in shock over the unprecedented attack on U.S. soil, Shannen Rossmiller, a country judge and mother of three in rural Montana, was formulating a plan. Soon she was devouring literature on Islamic culture, teaching herself Arabic, and preparing to infiltrate the...
A Little War That Shook the World
Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of...
Evel Knievel
An American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Robert "Evel" Knievel is one of the most unique heroes to earn a place in the collective psyche of this country. A high school dropout, an award-winning athlete, a petty thief, a motorcycle racer, and a political activist, Knievel earned his nickname because of his unlawful activities early...
The Command
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
After receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor for action in Iraq, Commander Daniel V. Lenson's new orders read: take over as skipper of USS Thomas W. Horn. His mission: prepare the Tomahawk-equipped strike destroyer and her crew for the Red Sea, where she'll join an international task force searching...
by Donald A. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Deemed "irreplaceable" by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. It is said that The Army of Northern Virginia never fully recovered from the loss of Stonewall's leadership when he was accidentally shot by one of his own men...
A Year in the South
Four Lives in 1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A Year in the South is about four ordinary people in an extraordinary time. They lived in the South during 1865 -- a year that saw war, disunion, and slavery give way to peace, reconstruction, and emancipation. One was a slave determined to gain freedom, one a widow battling poverty and despair, one...
by Ben Kane
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Set in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., The Forgotten Legion is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of those on the lowest rungs of its society. Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery to a enslaved mother who is much beloved by them,...
The Entity
Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
The International Bestseller
"A true story that surpasses any novel by John le Carré."—El Pa**ís (Spain)
For five centuries, the Vatican—the oldest organization in the world, maker of kings and shaper of history—has used a secret spy service, called the Holy Alliance,...
The Secret Life of Josephine
Napoleon's Bird of Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
The bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette and The Last Wife of Henry VIII returns with an enchanting novel about one of the most seductive women in history: Josephine Bonaparte, first wife of Napoleon.
Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, Josephine had an exotic...
The Spanish Queen
A Novel of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a powerful and moving novel about Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife and mother of Mary I
When young Catherine of Aragon, proud daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, is sent to England to marry...