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A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II
Maury Klein · Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover |
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The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the worlds history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents-and to do so it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before... |
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Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn
Melanie Shankle · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback |
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"There is really no better indicator you're a mother than acquiring the ability to catch throw-up in a plastic bag, disinfect your hands, and immediately ask your friend to pass the beef jerky as you put on another Taylor Swift song and act as if nothing has happened."This... |
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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
Jessica Fechtor · Avery
Format: Hardcover |
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An exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family. Then one day, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. She nearly... |
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1381: The Year of the Peasants' Revolt
Juliet Barker · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Written with the fluency readers have come to expect from Juliet Barker, 1381: The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt provides an account of the first great popular uprising in England and its background, and paints on a broad canvas a picture of English life in medieval times. Skeptical... |
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John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
James Traub · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 640
Format: Print book |
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John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind - a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise, yet dedicated himself to politics and government. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a frustrated president at a historic turning... |
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Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever
John Marshall · Ballantine Books; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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For readers of Three Cups of Tea; Eat, Pray, Love; and Wild comes the inspiring story of an ordinary American family that embarks on an extraordinary journey. Wide-Open World follows the Marshall family as they volunteer their way around the globe, living in a monkey sanctuary in Costa... |
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The Complete Book of US Presidents
Bill Yenne · Zenith Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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In this momentous election year, experience the history and personal stories of all 44 U.S. Presidents in this beautifully illustrated edition.From the first president, George Washington, to the most recent, Barack Obama, the United States has seen a host of extraordinary men take office.... |
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Diary of a Mad Diva
Joan Rivers · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 289
Format: Print book |
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Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified - who the hell does Melissa think she is? That... |
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Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America
Margaret M. McGuinness · NYU Press; 1st Edition edition
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover |
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For many Americans, nuns and sisters are the face of the Catholic Church. Far more visible than priests, Catholic women religious teach at schools, found hospitals, offer food to the poor, and minister to those in need. Their work has shaped the American Catholic Church throughout its history.... |
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Kicking Sick: Your Go-To Guide for Thriving with Chronic Health Conditions
Amy Kurtz · Sounds True
Pages: 168
Format: Print book |
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More than half of us in the US are struggling with a chronic medical issue - and too many are young women who should be enjoying their best years. Amy Kurtz gets it. Starting in her mid-teens, she endured two "perfect storms" of illness that progressed into her twenties. It earned... |
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Becoming Richard Pryor
Scott Saul · Harper
Format: Hardcover |
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A major biography—intimate, gripping, revelatory—of an artist who revolutionized American comedy.Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his familys brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to the stage, originally, to escape... |
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