By Rebecca Donner
The “highly evocative, deeply moving” true account of the extraordinary life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the...
By Vaclav Smil
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By Graham Allen
A U.S. Army veteran and rising star in the conservative movement makes the case that the United States should look to the country as it was on...
By Michael Lewis
For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry...
By Yeonmi Park
Yeonmi Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before has she revealed the most intimate...
By Mary L. Trump
From the #1 bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough: A diagnosis of America's national trauma, and a way to heal.The Reckoning will examine...
By William Golding,
E.L. Epstein (afterword)
Librarian's note: Alternate cover editions can be found here, here, here and here.When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of...
By Elie Wiesel,
Marion Wiesel (Translator),
François Mauriac (Foreword)
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz...
By Ray Bradbury,
Neil Gaiman (Introduction)
Sixty years after its publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a...
By Rickson Gracie,
Peter Maguire
From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracie’s...