Product DescriptionYears in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps ...
At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a ...
Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind’s greates...
SUMMARY: "M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction...
SUMMARY: In this novel, Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Maryland, revealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacable logic of the darkest hu...
"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived fr...
The Beast in the Cave The Alchemist The Tomb Dagon A Reminiscence Of Dr. Samuel Johnson Sweet Ermengarde or, The Heart of a Country Girl Polaris The Green Meadow Beyond the Wall of...
From BooklistAgree or disagree with polemicist Hitchens, there is no denying the clarity of his thinking, the depth of his reading, the thoroughness of his inquiries, the independe...
SUMMARY: Phillida Horsley might have bitten off more than she can chew when she agrees to help organize a literary festival and finds herself going to Ireland to persuade the infam...