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Ruth Handler: A Look Into the Creator of Me!
Step into the fascinating world of Ruth Handler, the visionary behind the iconic Barbie doll! Ruth Handler was the driving force behind the global phenomenon that revolutionized American culture and business. In this captivating biography, readers are invited to delve...
Ruth Handler: A Look Into the Creator of Me!
Step into the fascinating world of Ruth Handler, the visionary behind the iconic Barbie doll! Ruth Handler was the driving force behind the global phenomenon that revolutionized American culture and business. In this captivating biography, readers are invited to delve...
You Are What You Read
You Are What You Read – Take Control of Your Media, Take Back Your Mind Do you ever feel drained by the endless flood of negative news? ? You Are What You Read is your practical, empowering guide to breaking free from media-induced stress and creating a news and...
Incident at Big Sky
Edgar Award Finalist: The “exciting” true story of the abduction of biathlete Kari Swenson and the five-month manhunt to bring her tormentors to justice (The New York Times Book Review). Former rodeo cowboy Johnny France had been sheriff of Madison County, Montana,...
The Tattooed Girl
The fascinating stories behind what have been rightly called the "hottest books on the planet": The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's NestThrough insightful commentary and revealing interviews, you will...
Swift Sword
A true Vietnam War saga based on 50 interviews with veterans who were there and relatives of those who didn’t come home.Winner of the 2023 PenCraft Book of the Year Award for Best Nonfiction2024 Amazon Bestseller- History2024 Amazon #1 Bestseller- Vietnam War...
B-29 Superfortress
B-29 Superfortress: The Plane that Won the War is the definitive account of the crucial role played by the B-29 bomber during World War II. Author Gene Gurney takes the reader from the superplane’s inception, test flights and production to its combat deployments and...
Unvanquished
Southern women tell how they survived the desperate last days of the Confederacy in the Civil War. Entries from over 50 diaries of southern women, and slave women. As starvation stalked the land, they hid food and heirlooms in wells and swamps. They outwitted Yankee...
Zero at the Bone
“This true crime caper by Heidenry . . . of a 1953 Kansas child kidnapping gone bad carries a solid punch.” —Publishers WeeklyIn 1953, six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, the son of a wealthy Kansas City automobile dealer and his wife, was kidnapped from his Roman Catholic...
The Mongol Empire
Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia.Under his...
The Adventure of English
Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English...
Seven Days of Infamy
A COMPELLING LOOK AT THE TURNING POINT OF WORLD WAR II TOLD BY THOSE WHO WATCHED IT UNFOLD.‘A brisk, suspenseful World War II narrative.’ Kirkus Reviews‘Excellent . . . The real strength of his book . . . lies in its taut sense of the wider impact the Japanese attacks...
The Law
An analysis that grounds the law in the personality, liberty, and property of the individual from “the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived” (Joseph Schumpeter, twentieth-century political economist). The law is the organization of the natural right of...
Teaching a Stone to Talk
"A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world." — Kirkus Reviews Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer...
This Is Running for Your Life
Michelle Orange uses the lens of pop culture to decode the defining characteristics of our media-drenched timesIn This Is Running for Your Life, Michelle Orange takes us from Beirut to Hawaii to her grandmother's retirement home in Canada in her quest to understand...
Thebes
The riveting, definitive account of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, by the acclaimed author of The Spartans—now in paperback Among the extensive writing available about the history of ancient Greece, there is precious little about the city-state of Thebes. At one...
Roosevelt & Churchill: Men of Secrets
A THOROUGH EXAMINATION OF THE VITAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT STATESMEN DURING WORLD WAR TWO.‘However much they valued their special relationship, neither man allowed it to trump national goals. David Stafford's fascinating book is a useful...
It’s Never Been a Level Playing Field
In It’s Never Been a Level Playing Field, the author embarks on a journey to dissect and challenge the deeply ingrained myths that continue to perpetuate racial inequality in America. Each chapter delves into a specific myth, from the fallacy of equal opportunity to...
It’s Never Been a Level Playing Field
In It’s Never Been a Level Playing Field, the author embarks on a journey to dissect and challenge the deeply ingrained myths that continue to perpetuate racial inequality in America. Each chapter delves into a specific myth, from the fallacy of equal opportunity to...
How Soccer Explains the World
“An eccentric, fascinating exposé of a world most of us know nothing about. . . . Bristles with anecdotes that are almost impossible to believe.” —New York Times Book Review “Terrific. . . . A travelogue full of important insights into both cultural change and...
Seal Target Geronimo
The controversial New York Times bestseller that tells the "engrossing account of the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden." —Kirkus Reviews (starred)On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. a satellite uplink was sent from Pakistan crackling into the...
I Am Not a Slut
The author of the groundbreaking work Slut! explores the phenomenon of slut-shaming in the age of sexting, tweeting, and “liking.” She shows that the sexual double standard is more dangerous than ever before and offers wisdom and strategies for alleviating its...
The Last Good Heist
On Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, R.I. The crooks fled with duffle bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels...
Collapse Feminism
Analyses how conservative and anti-feminist ideas are filtered through social media, and how we can collectively fight back against them to reclaim our future online.Analysing a wide range of online communities and subcultures, Alice Capelle shows how an unprecedented...
The Bedford Boys
On 6 June 1944, nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia – population just 3,000 in 1944 – died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day.Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-two sons of Bedford were lost in...
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader called for the...