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The author of the National Book Award-winning Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace continues the personal journeys of inner-city youths who have struggled to work through formidable racial and...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning doctor, reporter and author of War Hospital reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina destroyed its generators to reveal how caregivers were...

A narrative report by a woman who grew up near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapon facility describes the dark secrets that dominated her childhood, the strange cancers that afflicted her neighbors, her...

A re-evaluation of Genghis Khan's rise to power examines the reforms the conqueror instituted throughout his empire and his uniting of East and West, which set the foundation for the nation-states...

Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and VanuatuAuthor: J. Maarten TroostPublisher: Broadway BooksPublication Date: June 13, 2006Number of Pages: 239 pagesLanguage:...

Collects 52 profiles of history's brightest female scientists and mathematicians. Original.Author: Rachel SwabyPublisher: Broadway BooksPublication Date: April 07, 2015Number of Pages: 288...

A popular Australian radio correspondent humorously recounts her reluctant relocation to New Delhi, India, where a dangerous illness propelled her to explore the region's culture and spirituality in...

Introduction -- To school or not to school -- Anything leads everywhere -- The three R's, plus: some general principles -- Preschool -- Kindergarten -- Grade one -- Grade two -- Grade three -- Grade...

Fateful alliances -- Gatekeeping in America -- The great Republican abdication -- Subverting democracy -- The guardrails of democracy -- The unwritten rules of American politics -- The unraveling --...

Outlines an engaging way to instill an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's classic works in children, presenting a family-friendly method that incorporates the history of Shakespearean...

The author describes his return to America after two decades of living abroad and his disconcerting reunion with his homeland as he discusses motels, tax-return instructions, and hardware stores...

If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me HomeAuthor: Tim O'BrienPublisher: Broadway BooksPublication Date: September 01, 1999Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Many others played starring roles too: doctors like Leo Kanner, who pioneered our understanding of autism; lawyers like Tom Gilhool, who took the families' battle for education to the courtroom;...

The author takes readers on a tour of the land Down Under that goes far beyond packaged-tour routes.Author: Bill BrysonPublisher: Broadway BooksPublication Date: May 15, 2001Number of Pages: 352...

Long-held myths defining the sources of and cures for crime are shattered in this ground-breaking book--and a chilling profile of today's criminal emerges.Author: Stanton SamenowPublisher: Broadway...

A CIA field commander offers a no-holds-barred, inside look at the war in Afghanistan against Osama Bin Laden, explaining how his handpicked team of CIA and Special Operations Forces launched an...

Documents the author's psychic experiences with astral projection and his struggle to rationalize his ability to travel away from his physical bodyAuthor: Robert A. MonroePublisher: Broadway...

Documents how a troubled young computer hacker seized control of a massive international computer fraud network in 2006, tracing the efforts of FBI and Secret Service agents as well as an undercover...

Describes the remarkable and challenging efforts of ambitious entrepreneur Henry Flagler to construct a railway that would connect Key West to the mainland, following the design and engineering of...

The author takes as his canvas the Vietnam War, as seen through a single mission that occurred on May 2, 1968. A twelve-man Special Forces team had been covertly inserted into a small clearing in the...

Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown Publishers in 2009--T.p. verso.Author: Lars BrownworthPublisher: Broadway BooksPublication Date: June 01, 2010Number of Pages: 352...

Evokes a mid-twentieth-century Soviet experience, as the author traces her upbringing by an anti-Soviet mother, her witness to the political events surrounding the empire's collapse, and her parallel...

A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days provides his account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of...

The author describes his victimization at the hands of Dr. Walter Freeman, who popularized the transorbital lobotomy and who performed the procedure on the author at the age of twelve; the abandoment...

A veteran mountaineer recalls some of his most dangerous climbs as he pursued the goal of reaching the summit of the world's fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, discussing some of his own close calls and...

Nonsense: The Power of Not KnowingAuthor: Jamie HolmesPublisher: Broadway BooksPublication Date: Jul 1905Number of Pages: 322 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0385348398ISBN-13:...

Looks at the economics of the petroleum industry and traces how crude oil from fields around the world eventually becomes the gasoline for automobiles, in a new edition containing an updated epilogue...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me."--Reese Witherspoon "Josie Silver writes...

Chronicles World War II's pivotal deception by two British naval officers who successfully fed false intelligence to the Nazis about where Allied forces were planning an attack in southern Europe. By...

Go behind the scenes of our most ambitious radio programs and witness an intensely creative moment in a medium that's changing the way we tell stories. Every week, millions of devoted fans download...