The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama Release Date: Oct 17, 2006
Senator Barack Obama shares his thoughts on how to make America a better country. Touching on such topics as race relations, immigration, opportunity, and the Constitution, Obama provides interesting perspectives that deserve to be listened to and considered. The chapters are long, so have a bookmark handy....
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog John Grogan Release Date: Oct 18, 2005
John Grogan reminisces the frustrations and the joys in the life of his dog Marley, one of the worst-behaved but most loveable dogs known to man....
Next Michael Crichton Release Date: Nov 28, 2006
From the patenting of genes and human tissue to human-animal clones, Next explores many of the cutting-edge issues--and their potential misuse--in the future of genetics....
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Thomas L. Friedman Release Date: Apr 18, 2006
Thomas Friedman presents a compelling, challenging, and insightful look at a world where globalization is fast becoming the modus operandi. In this updated edition, forces that have helped to flatten the world are discussed, along with our responsibilities as a result of these changes. The call is not to hide from these changes, but to embrace them while preserving the cultural identities we currently have....
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Release Date: Apr 12, 2005
From abortion to poverty to cheating to racism, Levitt and Dubner apply the number-crunching methods of economics to a variety of controversial questions in the soft sciences. Freakonomics offers a new approach on these issues in that it seeks to explore not the moral side of the way things should be, but the economic side of the way things are....
The End: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13 Lemony Snicket Release Date: Oct 13, 2006
The Baudelaire orphans face even more trouble in this thirteenth and final installment of A Series of Unfortunate Events, including a terrible storm, a mysterious island, and a dishonest facilitator....
Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) Christopher Paolini Release Date: Aug 10, 2004
Eragon, a young farmer, finds a magic dragon's egg and is swept up in a quest that will change his life forever....
Forever Odd Dean Koontz Release Date: Nov 29, 2005
The second installment in Koontz's Odd Thomas series continues the adventures of the psychic young man whose ability to see ghosts enables him to help solve crimes....
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War Nathaniel Philbrick Release Date: May 9, 2006
National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick offers an intriguing account of the first decades of the Patuxet (Plymouth) colony in present-day Massachusetts. The Pilgrims were beset with harsh conditions, little food, and the constant fear of death. Although fearful of the local Native Americans, they structured a peace that was tenuous at best. That peace was shattered in 1674 as King Philip’s War, a fourteen-month struggle, radically changed New England....
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan Release Date: Apr 11, 2006
Michael Pollan traces the history of four meals from the soil to the plate, revealing surprising facts about the modern food chain in a search for the roots of our national eating disorder....
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