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The real stories behind famous people and events from ancient to modern times.Anecdotal, thought provoking and organized by topic. Chapters will include: Yo...

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses ushered in the Reformation, bestselling author and controversial bishop and teacher John ...

The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable...

#1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Sunday Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Next Pick A Best Book Of The Year: The Washington Post * Npr * The Atlantic * New York ...

The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brillian...

America is under attack. Its institutions and values are under daily assault. But the principal culprits are not foreign terrorists. They are influential ...

Here is the key to thought of one of our time's central moral figures. It reveals Bonhoeffer's deep, firm roots in Christian doctrine, and it relates that ...

Argues That A Global Conspiracy Has Enslaved Americans With Poor Education, A Misguided Mass Media, And A Buffet Of Prescription Drugs, And Issues A Call To...

The astonishing #1 bestselling story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forestMaxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family w...

READ THE BOOK DONALD TRUMP REFERENCED AND READ IN HIS MAJOR ANTI-HILLARY CLINTON SPEECH. In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in lega...

This Author's Memoir Has Riveted Generations Of Readers With Its Descriptions Of Life In Nazi Death Camps And Its Lessons For Spiritual Survival. Between 19...

In 1975, Four Teenagers Gathered In A Kitchen In Dublin To Discuss Forming A Band. The Drum Kit Just About Fit Into The Room, The Lead Guitarist Had A Homem...

A Net Of Complex Currents Flowed Across Jacobean England. This Was The England Of Shakespeare, Jonson And Bacon; Of The Gunpowder Plot; The Worst Outbreak O...

In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, America's #1 soap opera, chronicles his ...

A chilling and unflinching portrait of one of the most fearsome figures in world politics. In 1999, the “Family” surrounding Boris Yeltsin went l...

From the beginning to 1940. Written for both students and adults. The author intersperses the history with many brief, interesting biographies of famous peo...

Ken Stern Watched The Increasing Polarization Of Our Country With Growing Concern. As A Longtime Partisan Democrat Himself, He Felt Forced To Acknowledge Th...

Introduction / James K. A. Smith -- In His Steps--a Postmodern Edition -- Spiritual Journeys, Postmodern Paths -- A Prayer For The Impossible : A Catechumen...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with bu...

An exciting foray into the lives of the young men - pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners, chosen by the Air Force to embark on the most dangerous mi...

How did Horatio Nelson achieve such extraordinary success? In this authoritative biography, the eminent scholar Roger Knight places him firmly in the contex...

Winner of the Tomlinson Book PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followe...

Volume 1 Offers A Radical New Survey Of More Than A Thousand Years Of Religious Life In Rome, From The Foundation Of The City To Its Rise To World Empire An...

An Appeal To Heaven: What Would Happen If We Did It Again In recent days, you may have seen someone with a white flag displaying an evergreen tree beneath t...

Do you remember the best summer of your life? New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa hous...

Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. In India, ...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall—not to mention work...

Oriana Fallaci faces the themes unchained by the Islamic terrorism: the contrast and, in her opinion, incompatibility between the Islamic world and the West...

Huston Smith, The Author Of The Classic Bestseller The World's Religions, Delivers A Passionate, Timely Message: The Human Spirit Is Being Suffocated By The...

An Exhilarating History Of Humankind, Chronicling Thousands Of Years Of Trial And Error--but Mostly Error--in The Rise Of Civilization Modern Humans Have Co...

"S.C. Gwynne's Hymns of the Republic addresses the period from Ulysses S. Grant's appointment as general of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender ...

The Gifts Of The Jews Reveals The Critical Change That Made Western Civilization Possible. Within The Matrix Of Ancient Religions And Philosophies, Life Was...

Using newly declassified documents from the Peron government, Peron's own memoirs, and the testimonies of Peron's priest, an Argentine journalist attempts t...

In his most widely appealing book yet, one of today's leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing history and peculiar nature of money...

in This Angry, Funny, Smart, Contentious Book, Jonah Goldberg Offers A Startling New Perspective On The Theories And Practices That Define Fascist Politic...

Postsecret.com founder Frank Warren is back with a fresh and compelling companion to his wildly popular Los Angeles Times bestseller, PostSecret. For My Se...

“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important stor...

Christianity has an image problem. Christians are supposed to represent Christ to the world. But according to the latest report card, something has gone te...

For Many Centuries, The World Of Islam Was In The Forefront Of Human Achievement - The Foremost Military And Economic Power In The World, The Leader In The ...

NOMINATED FOR THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE AS SEEN ON GLOBAL NEWS-TV'S THE MORNING SHOW Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hu...

The bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution continues to share her unique insight into Ronald Reagan, arguing that his character and courage made...

Christopher McDougall’s journey begins with a story of remarkable athletic prowess: On the treacherous mountains of Crete, a motley band of World War II R...

The author of Parliament of Whores takes a look at freedom around the world, discussing the Gorbachev-Reagan summit, the Berlin Wall, elections in Paraguay ...

"Offers hope in the face of desperate odds" - ELLE Magazine, ELLE's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020 "[D]isturbing and unforgettable memoir...This wr...

Hillary Rodham Clinton And Her Daughter, Chelsea, Share The Stories Of The Gutsy Women Who Have Inspired Them -- Women With The Courage To Stand Up To The S...

Diary-of-a-Young-GirlCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Community & CultureWomen Memoirs HistoryEurope World JewishHolocaust MilitaryWorld...

A graphic narrative describes what happens to a 13-year-old Jewish girl when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. Includes a brief chronology of the Holocaust...

The AP World History course and test are being overhauled in 2019-2020. This revised edition is being published off-cycle in November to capture the latest...