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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
William I Hitchcock · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover
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An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself.In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial... |
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Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure
AMY KAUFMAN · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America's favorite guilty pleasureFor fifteen years and thirty-five seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV viewers' lives. Since it premiered in 2002, the show's... |
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The Handy American Government Answer Book: How Washington, Politics and Elections Work
Gina Rene?e Misiroglu · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government and political system should work, much less how it actually operates. On one level, it's a complex, interlocking... |
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My Days: Happy and Otherwise
Marion Ross · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America's favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . . Before she was affectionately known to millions as "Mrs. C.," Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount starlet... |
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A Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story
William C Martin · Zondervan
Pages: 832
Format: Hardcover
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A Prophet with Honor celebrates one of the 20th century's great luminaries. This engaging and comprehensive book will give both religious and secular readers a better understanding of the most successful evangelist in modern history, and the movement he led for over fifty years.This... |
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Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
MAX LUCADO · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Anxiety is at an all time high, but there's a prescription for dealing with it. Max Lucado invites readers into a study of Philippians 4:6-7 where the Apostle Paul admonishes the followers of Christ, "Do not be anxious about anything . . ." Philippians 4:6 encourages the believer... |
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Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence
POPE FRANCIS · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of homilies, speeches, and "messages of the day" that brings together Pope Francis's wisdom on finding happiness in the here and now For Pope Francis, appreciating our everyday lives is a spiritual undertaking. Joy is a divine attribute, and creating joy around... |
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The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA
Anthony Casillo · Chronicle Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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This magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than 200 breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science behind some of our cosmic neighborhood's most extraordinary phenomena. Images of newly... |
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
CONDE NAST & THE WOMEN'S MARCH. · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD * SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH * AMERICA FERRARA * ROXANE GAY * ILANA GLAZER * ASHLEY JUDD * VALARIE KAUR * CINDI LEIVE * DAVID REMNICK * JILL SOLOWAY * YARA SHAHIDI * JIA TOLENTINO * CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS * ELAINE WELTEROTH * JOSE ANTONIO... |
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Radiant Quilts: Stunning Quilts from Simple Shapes
Elsie M Campbell · Landauer
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
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Radiant Quilts offers a complete guide to making gorgeous scrap quilts using just one, two, or three simple repeated shapes. Renowned author and quilt designer Elsie M. Campbell uses triangles, clamshells, half-hexagons, strips, and diamonds to make nine start-to-finish, stash-busting projectsfrom... |
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The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights became the Bill of Rights
Gerard N Magliocca · Oxford University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten constitutional amendments drafted by James Madison in 1789 and ratified by the states in 1791 the Bill of Rights. Even more surprising, when people finally... |
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The Last Black Unicorn
TIFFANY HADDISH · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: eBook
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From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself.Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods... |
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The Dictionary of Dreams: 15,000 Meanings Interpreted
Gustavus Hindman Miller · Wellfleet Press
Pages: 544
Format: Flexibound
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Dreams can be fun and adventurous, but also frightening and distorted, and still again, they can be an endless combination of both. From spitting teeth out (a sign of aging) , to creepy, crawly spiders (a sign that one feels like an outsider) , dreams can mean much more to us once we learn... |
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How to Roast Everything: A Game-Changing Guide to Building Flavor in Meat, Vegetables, and More
AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN. · America's Test Kitchen
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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With over 175 foolproof recipes covering everything from simple roast chicken and pork loin to top sirloin roast, rack of lamb, and lobster, this authoritative volume offers a master class in the timeless art and science of roasting.Roast: It's at once a verb and a noun, a technique and a cut of meat,... |
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