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Befriend and Betray 2: More Stories from the Legendary DEA, FBI and RCMP Infiltrator
Alex Caine · Juniper Publishing
Pages: 274
Format: Print book
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Once again, Alex Caine risks it all.In his latest book, Alex Caine rubs shoulders with the members of a Hong Kong triad who are deeply involved in the drug trade and a group of Ottawa skinheads that plans to detonate a bomb in the heart of the nation's capital. Caine is blindsided when... |
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Michelle Obama: A Life
Peter Slevin · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring story of a modern American icon, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's... |
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A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York
Anjelica Huston · Scribner; 1st edition
Format: Audiobook
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Writing with an exuberant love of language and detail, Anjelica Huston shares her enchanted childhood in Ireland, her teen years in London, and her coming-of-age as a model and nascent actress in New York. Living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid... |
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Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
Wendell Steavenson · Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Through a series of stunningly rendered, character-drive vignettes, New Yorker writer Wendell Steavenson recounts the events of the Egyptian Revolution - from Mubarak's fall to Morsi's. Here is the panoply of Tahrir Square, a pointillist portrait of a people enacting and reacting... |
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Fidel Castro: Life and Death of a Dictator
Glenn Garvin · Mango Publishing Group in collaboration with the Miami herald
Pages: 274
Format: Print book
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He towered over his Caribbean island for nearly five decades, a shaggy-bearded figure in combat fatigues whose long shadow spread across Latin America and the world. Few fired the hearts of the world's restless youth as Castro did when he was young, and few seemed so irrelevant as Castro... |
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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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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Vicki Myron · Grand Central
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover
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How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear... |
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Prince: Chaos, Disorder, and Revolution
Jason Draper · Hal Leonard Corporation
Format: Paperback
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(Book). Prince has cut a singular path through the heart of popular music for more than 30 years. After making some of the most inventive albums of the '80s including 1999 , Purple Rain and Sign of the Times he turned his attention to redefining his role in the music industry,... |
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