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John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963
Alan Brinkley · Times Books
Format: Hardcover |
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The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at homeJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nations chief executive. He was forty-three... |
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book |
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A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures... |
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When in French: Love in a Second Language
Lauren Collins · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier - a surprising turn of events for someone who didn't have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean... |
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Called for Life: How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic
Kent Brantly · Waterbrook Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover |
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"Kent, bud. We got your test result. And I'm really sorry to tell you that it is positive for Ebola." Dr. Kent and Amber Brantly moved with their children to war-torn Liberia in the fall of 2013 to provide medical care for people in great need - to help replace hopelessness with... |
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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Patrick French · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 554
Format: Print book |
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Since V. S. Naipaul left his Caribbean birthplace at the age of seventeen, his improbable life has followed the global movement of peoples, whose preeminent literary chronicler he has become. In The World Is What It Is, Patrick French offers the first authoritative biography of the controversial... |
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Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
Brian McGinty · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 259
Format: Print book |
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The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.In the early hours of May 6, 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge -- the first railroad bridge ever to span the Mississippi... |
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C White · Random House
Pages: 880
Format: Print book |
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America's greatest generals - and most misunderstood presidents. |
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The Inventors: A Memoir
Peter Selgin · Hawthorne Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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Fall, 1970. At the start of eighth grade, Peter Selgin fell in love with the young teacher who'd arrived from Oxford in Frye boots, with long hair, and a passion for his students that was intense and unorthodox. The son of an emotionally remote inventor, Peter was also a twin with a burning... |
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Will & I: A Memoir
Clay Byars · Farrar
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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Clay Byars was recovering at home from a near-fatal car crash when he suffered a massive stroke. He was just eighteen years old. He awoke, back in the hospital, and was told he would be paralyzed from the eyes down for the rest of his life. Determined to defy the odds, Clay quickly and miraculously... |
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