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"Child of Our Time" is the inspiring story of a little girl caught in the vortex of one of history7;s great horrors. Plucked from deep rural Germany, after witnessing the horror of Kristallnacht and her family7;s eviction from its village, Ruth David was sent to England as part of the Kindertranspor... More

The "trauma of childbirth" is a commonly heard phrase, but one that "Calm Birth" authoritatively counters. Beginning with a history of the repression of women as midwives and healers and a look at the lingering legacy of that time, the book shows how to restore childbirth to its sacred status. "Calm... More

From the veteran journalist who knows him best comes a comprehensive biography of the presidential hopeful America can't stop talking about: Barack Obama. The author, a Chicago Tribune reporter who has been covering Obama since his senatorial campaign, gives readers an up-close look at how the bir... More

What makes a financially successful, happily married man want to kill his wife? What makes the man turn into a fugitive and leave town with his two children? What if you were his best friend and witnessed his steady decline from family man to stone cold criminal? Would you turn him in or support his... More

The Vietnam War was a thirty-year conflict that actually included several wars, cost billions of dollars, resulted in thousands of Vietnamese, French, and American deaths, and reverberated throughout the international community. Now in this new concise overview David Anderson lays out the origins, c... More

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New Year's Eve, 1945. The assassin steps out of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of a raging nor'easter. Cool and efficient, she's a weapon of war superbly trained in the ancient arts of subterfuge and murder. And even though she's outnumbered, she's got one major advantage: No one knows she's comin... More