Taskforce operator Pike Logan and his partner Jennifer Cahill go against a Chechen suicide bomber intent on releasing a deadly, genetically mutated virus. Traversing the globe to stop this catastrophe, the two soon discover there is a...
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- Author:Taylor, BradSummary:
- Author:Mazzetti, MarkSummary:
Presents a revelatory account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special forces into competing covert paramilitary agencies responsible for the defeat of Osama bin Laden and other strategic war efforts, offering insight...
- Author:Baxter, Jean RaeSummary:
This young adult historical novel focuses on Charlotte and her family, Loyalists who are forced to flee their home in the Mohawk Valley as a result of the violence of the “Sons of Liberty” during the American Revolution. At the...
- Author:Fishman, CharlesSummary:
Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest company--it is the largest company in the history of the world. It is estimated that the company's low prices save American consumers $10 billion a year--but the #1 employer in 37...
- Author:Klinkowitz, JeromeSummary:
Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome...
- Author:Freedman, RussellSummary:
In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights.
- Author:KOONTZ, DeanSummary:
A clairvoyant is able to foresee murders, but she is not able to prevent them. She comes up against a new power, a Power much stronger than hers, which wants her dead, to kill her before she can identify it.
- Author:Kendzior, SarahSummary:
From the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory. "A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly...
- Author:Brockmann, SuzanneSummary:
After a near-fatal head injury, Navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti spies an international terrorist in his hometown. In a desperate attempt to prevent disaster, he creates his own makeshift counterterrorist team, which includes Dr. Kelly...
- Author:Kahn, Ashley, Miller, Hal, Santana, CarlosSummary:
From growing up dirt poor in Mexico to becoming a lowly dishwasher in the US and finally a person you might almost think is perpetually in a state of nirvana, this is the story of a truly fascinating man.
- Author:Weiss, Martin D.Summary:
This examines investments and health care, proposing ways to protect and increase a financial portfolio through careful observations and decisions. Weiss offers five main lessons to better understand the stock market: watch for hidden...
- Author:Rosswood, EricSummary:
Jam packed with parenting tips and advice to help you build confidence and become the awesome gay dad you were meant to be.
- Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:
Just as young surveyor Warren Neale discovers graft and corruption in the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming, his fiancee Allie is kidnapped by ruffians.
- Author:Klein, EdwardSummary:
Klein reveals the truth about a woman who has managed to keep much of her life private. Drawing from inside sources, he reveals a reality of Hillary's turbulent marriage and exposes what she and Bill have done behind closed doors....
- Author:Poundstone, PaulaSummary:
Is there a secret to happiness' Beloved comedian Paula Poundstone conducts a series of "thoroughly scientific" experiments to find out, offering herself up as a guinea pig and recording her data for the benefit of all humankind. Armed...
- Author:Korderas, JimmySummary:
An in-the-ring perspective on pro wrestling. The Three Count highlights the triumphs and tragedies Jimmy Korderas experienced over his storied career as a WWE ref, from humble beginnings with Jack Tunney in Toronto to being a...
- Author:Hartmann, ThomSummary:
Hartmann is perhaps best known for his fierce commitment to Jeffersonian democracy and his steadfast opposition to the corporatization of America. But in these pages you’ll also discover his Older and Younger Cultures Hypothesis, which...
- Author:Dyja, ThomasSummary:
Much of what defined America as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America.
- Author:Moehringer, J. R.Summary:
J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, J.R. would press his ear to a clock radio, straining to hear in that...
- Author:Coburn, Davin, Bakos, NadaSummary:
Filled with on-the-ground insights and poignant personal anecdotes, this memoir shows us the great personal sacrifice that comes with intelligence work. This is Nada's story, but it is also an intimate chronicle of how a group of...