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Political commentator and former Arkansas governor Huckabee discusses the challenges facing America and argues for a smaller federal government and…
a return to family values. Offers policies that he believes will solve the country's problems. 2011
Author of The Men Who Stare at Goats (DB 60917) explores psychiatry's efforts to recognize and treat psychopaths. Interviews include…
a doctor who developed a checklist of psychopathic traits, a former Haitian death-squad leader, and an ex-CEO who seemed to enjoy firing workers. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller. 2011
Vogel Pharmaceutical sends pharmacologist Marina Singh to Amazonian Brazil to locate elusive employee Dr. Annick Swenson, who was once Singh's…
professor. While investigating the status of Swenson's fertility-drug research, Singh also hopes to uncover the fate of colleague Anders Eckman, whom Swenson reported dead. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011
Five years ago Allison Glenn, a sixteen-year-old star student and athlete, was arrested for murdering her newborn. Now released to…
a halfway house and shunned by her family, Allison connects with women whose lives were altered by Allison's past. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2011
Documents the rise of cable television sports channel ESPN, created in 1979 in Bristol, Connecticut. Draws on interviews with hundreds…
of current and former employees, including announcers and analysts, as well as sports stars such as LeBron James, Peyton Manning, Jeff Gordon, and Tony Hawk. Bestseller. 2011
Texas congressman and 2012 presidential candidate Paul presents his position on fifty contemporary issues, including campaign-finance reform, discrimination, immigration, medical…
care, and unions. Discusses his advocacy of sound money, personal liberty, free markets, and international peace. 2011
American statesman and scholar who helped President Nixon reestablish relations with Beijing in 1971-72 explains the differences between China's conceptual…
thinking about problems of war, peace, and international order and America's more pragmatic case-by-case approach. Focuses on the interaction of Chinese and American leaders since 1949. 2011
Portrays the many Americans who were attracted to Paris--considered the cultural center of the western world--between 1830 and the early…
1900s. Discusses the influence of the French intellectual community on the pioneering medical students, artists, politicians, and writers and on U.S. history. Bestseller. 2011
Trial lawyer with Catholic upbringing tackles the question of whether or not God exists. Argues that agnosticism, rather than religion…
or atheism, is the only logical belief. Focuses primarily on Christianity, with brief discussions of other faiths. Bestseller. 2011
Follows the lives of U.S. ambassador William E. Dodd and his family, who moved to Berlin, Germany, in 1933. Discusses…
their attitudes toward the Nazi Party, obliviousness to Hitler's true character, and naive reactions to the persecution of Jews and Americans and the enforcement of stringent laws. Bestseller. 2011
Satire about an alternate London under a totalitarian regime overseen by the omnipresent Big Brother. Winston Smith, a Ministry of…
Truth bureaucrat, attempts an intellectual rebellion against the Party while he pursues an illicit romance. His actions lead to his imprisonment, torture, and reeducation by the Thought Police. 1949
Author of Wildflower (DB 70537) investigates the case of Christian Gerhartsreiter, who came to America from Germany in 1978 and…
adopted a series of blue-blood identities. Details Gerhartsreiter's schemes, including his last and biggest, when he posed as "Clark Rockefeller" and kidnapped his own daughter. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011
Bethia Mayfield secretly befriends Caleb, a Martha's Vineyard Wampanoag Indian. After smallpox kills Caleb's family, Bethia's minister father takes him…
in to be educated. Bethia follows Caleb and her brother Makepeace to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1660 as an indentured servant while the boys prepare to attend Harvard College. Bestseller. 2011
Rodeo star Brody Creed returns home to Lonesome Bend, Colorado, where his twin Connor, from Creed's Honor (DB 73454), has…
married Tricia McCall. Brody wants to resume his love affair with Carolyn Simmons, but Carolyn is still heartbroken from their last fling. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times business journalist Morgenson and financial analyst Rosner investigate the 2008 financial meltdown. They assert that…
government regulators and public agencies were complicit in creating the circumstances for the economic crisis and name individuals they consider to be the key players. Bestseller. 2011
Firekeeper, from Through Wolf's Eyes (DB 72462), struggles to understand the politics of the court and neighboring lands. Meanwhile enemies…
of the king are searching for magical artifacts--and Firekeeper is tasked with finding them first. Some descriptions of sex. 2002
Relic hunter and naturalist exposes the dark side of archaeology. Discusses the reasons people loot, citing cases of antiquities traffickers,…
immoral museum curators, and wealthy collectors. Argues that taking artifacts separates them from their history. Explains his own low-impact method of exploration. 2010
Thirty-two short stories from 2009. In Ian Creasey's "Erosion" a man says farewell to his life on Earth as he…
heads out into space. Other authors include Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, and Paul McAuley. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2010