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2016 Goodreads Choice Awards finalist The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking...

Secrets Of The Tomb: Skull And Bones, The Ivy League, And The Hidden Paths Of PowerAuthor: Alexandra RobbinsPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Sep 01, 2003Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage:...

Learn why NASA astronaut Mike Collins calls this extraordinary space race story "the best book on Apollo": this inspiring and intimate ode to ingenuity celebrates one of the most daring feats in...

Finalist for the Cross Sports Biography of the Year Award! "With surgical precision, Roland Lazenby expertly dissects the life of this generation's most fascinating basketball player. What made Kobe...

Sisters In Hate: American Women And White ExtremismAuthor: Seyward DarbyPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Oct 19, 2021Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Six Thinking HatsAuthor: Edward de BonoPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: August 18, 1999Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316178314ISBN-13: 9780316178310

Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815,...

This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2...

From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation. For...

Maureen Corrigan has produced a minor miracle: a book about The Great Gatsby that stands up to Gatsby itself --Michael Cunningham. It's a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of...

Author: Craig ChildsPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Oct 01, 2003Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316735884ISBN-13: 9780316735889

A frenetically imaginative first effort, booming with vitality and originality . . . Kalfar's voice is distinct enough to leave tread marks.-Jennifer Senior, New York Times Shortlisted for the Center...

From hipsters to widowed hamsters, this hilarious collection combines "gentle surrealism and smiley satire" to portray a generation of narcissists and the well-meaning boomers who made them that way...

Satisfying and spellbinding....I just loved this book.--Charlaine Harris When two secret organizations are forced to merge after years of enmity and bloodshed, only one person has the fearsome...

Funny, elegiac... a remarkably sunny coming-of-age story about growing up in a Midwest world. --- NPR This is a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in...

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane Of 1938Author: R.A. ScottiPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Aug 24, 2004Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel. Welcome to the most...

*The USA Today bestseller* Surprise... your target. Kill... your enemy. Vanish... without a trace. From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units...

In this "deliciously funny, sharp, and sincere" debut (Helen Oyeyemi), a young graduate student writing about -- and desperately searching for -- inspiration stumbles upon it in the unlikeliest of...

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often...

In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph. Once upon a time,...

Author: Walter R. BornemanPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: May 07, 2013Number of Pages: 608 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316097837ISBN-13: 9780316097833

Three of the world's most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society--and what this technology means for us all...

Rapturous and razor sharp all at once, The Age of Light fearlessly unzips anything we might know of Lee Miller as model and muse and recasts her as artist, free thinker and architect of a singular...

A Civil War novel unlike any other: the story of a young man's journey through a nation blasted apart. Born in 1844, Liberty Fish is the descendant of both Carolina slaveholders and New York...

Author: Craig ChildsPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Mar 01, 2009Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316066478ISBN-13: 9780316066471

The Arrangement: A NovelAuthor: Sarah DunnPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Jan 2018Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316013617ISBN-13: 9780316013611

Real-world advice on how to be invisible online from "the FBI's most-wanted hacker" (Wired) Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity easily stolen. Big companies and big...

A "breathtaking" (Jennifer Egan) century-spanning portrait of the inhabitants of a French village, revealing the deception, despair, love, and longing beneath the calm surface of ordinary lives. What...

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a...