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Running with the Bulls: My Years with the...
by Valerie Hemingway
A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face-to-face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife,... Read More
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My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand...
by Wen Ho Lee
Wen Ho Lee, a patriotic American scientist born in Taiwan, had devoted almost his entire life to science and to helping improve U.S. defense capabilities. He loved his job at Los Alamos National Laboratory and spent his leisure time fishing, cooking, gardening, and with his family. Then,... Read More
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Lobster Chronicles, The: Life on a Very...
by Linda Greenlaw
After seventeen years at sea, Linda Greenlaw figured it was time to take a break from her career as a swordboat captain. She felt she needed to return to Isle au Haut - a tiny island seven miles from the Maine coast with a population of 70 year-round residents, 30 of whom were her relatives.... Read More
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The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
A serious illness destroyed Helen Keller's sight and hearing at the age of two. At seven, she was helped by Anne Sullivan, her beloved teacher and friend. Through sheer determination and resolve, she learned to speak and prepared herself for entry into prep school by age sixteen. Later she... Read More
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The Making of Modern Economics
by Mark Skousen
Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer. Skousen unites the great thinkers by ranking them for or against Adam Smith and his 'system of natural liberty.'
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When Character Was King
by Peggy Noonan
No one has ever captured Ronald Reagan like Peggy Noonan. Noonan brings her own reflections on Reagan to bear as well as recollections from those close to him to reveal the true nature of a man even his opponents now view as a maker of big history.
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Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of...
by Donald Barlett
Howard Hughes had always been different. Raised by overprotective parents, pathologically fearful of germs, unable to make friends, he grew into a man ruled by madness. Here is the full story of the reclusive industrialist, the powerful, curious man whose name called up visions of untold... Read More
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Empire: The Life, Legend, And Madness
by Donald L. Barlett
Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. In this brilliantly documented biography, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth. Hughes had always been different. Certainly his... Read More
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Raoul Wallenberg
by Harvey Rosenfeld
In wartime Hungary, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg issued countless 'false' visas and documents which saved approximately 100,000 Jews from the Nazis. After Wallenberg's arrest by Russian military police, he disappeared in 1945. His fate remains unknown. This is a fascinating biography... Read More
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Trip to the Beach, A
by Melinda Blanchard
This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise - and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with calamities and comedy, culinary disasters and... Read More
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