World War I air warfare as told by a 20th century paraplegic pilot and the two guardian angels that protect him in flight. One angel is German and the other American.

**A Barack Obama 2023 Summer Reading selectionWhat is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it’s always been—a love song.**Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an unraveling America. As she grapples with a lifetime of ambivalence about motherhood, yet another act of police brutality makes headlines, and this time the victim is Noah, a boy in her photography class. ...

Financial news networks love to bombard retail investors with complex jargon, creating the illusion that understanding the economy requires a Wall Street degree. They discuss moving averages and obscure ratios, leaving the average person anxious and confused about when the next market crash will happen. This manufactured complexity hides a surprisingly simple truth. You do not need to watch the stock market every day to predict a recession. The smartest money in the world does not look at ...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WORLD'S GREATEST POWER STOPS BELIEVING IN ITSELF? From the marble halls of the Roman Senate to the corridors of Washington D.C., history has been whispering the same warning for two thousand years. The question is whether America is finally listening. Empire in Decline is the book that geopolitical analysts, history professors, and political insiders are calling the most urgent work of comparative history published in a generation. Drawing on the rise and fall of Rome...

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany without a majority, without full control of his own cabinet, and without the presidency. Fifty-three days later, he ruled by decree. This gripping World War 2 history book reveals how a modern constitutional democracy — with free elections, a free press, and an independent judiciary — was legally dismantled in less than two months, using the very laws designed to protect it.The Constitutional Coup: How Hitler Destroyed ...

For more than three decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has been one of the most talked-about, most controversial, and least understood figures in modern American law. Going Higher is the timely, deeply researched biography that finally gives readers the full, unflinching story — from a childhood of crushing poverty in segregated Pin Point, Georgia, to the Catholic seminary that broke and later restored his faith, to the brutal 1991 Senate confirmation hearings that made headlines around the ...

The definitive 9/11 anniversary book the world has been waiting for — a sweeping, unflinching account of the war that defined the 21st century.On the 25th anniversary of September 11, 25 Years at War delivers the most comprehensive history yet written of America's War on Terror — from the first ninety-six hours after the Twin Towers fell to the chaotic final withdrawal from Kabul, and the escalating standoff with Iran that continues to reshape the world today.Drawing on hun...

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." — PLATOHe said it 2,400 years ago. We still haven't listened.GOVERNED BY INFERIORS: The Cost of Refusing Politics in a Democracy is the provocative, deeply researched nonfiction book for readers who loved Liar's Kingdom, On Tyranny, and How Democracies Die — a fearless, fact-driven wake-up call about voter apathy, political disengagement, and what really happe...

HEROES OF SEPTEMBER 11 is a powerful collection of inspiring true stories from one of the defining moments in modern American history—and a deeply human tribute to the courage, sacrifice, survival, and compassion that emerged from September 11, 2001.Twenty-five years later, the world continues to remember 9/11. But beyond the images of the Twin Towers, Ground Zero, smoke-filled streets, the Pentagon, and Flight 93 lies another story: the story of ordinary people who faced extraordi...

AN AMERICAN EPIDEMIC: The Invention of the Way of Killing The groundbreaking investigative book explaining why America leads the world in gun violence — and how we can still stop it.Why does the United States suffer gun violence deaths at a rate found only in the world's poorest, most unstable nations? An American Epidemic is the urgent, meticulously researched answer — a sweeping work of investigative journalism and narrative nonfiction that traces America's gun violence crisis ba...

Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behind glass cases. By focusing on the dynamic histories of museum collections, new research reveals their pivotal role in shaping a wide range of social relations. Over time and across space the interactions between these artefacts and the people and institutions who made, traded, collected, researched and exhibited them have generated complex networks of material and social agency.In th...

A lifetime can pass in eight days. Christmas can become an interplanetary problem. And on a lonely alien world, a simple walk through the darkness can become a terrifying test of nerve.Lost Sci-Fi Books 131 thru 135 brings together five imaginative adventures by Ray Bradbury, Jack Vance, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Harry Harrison.The Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray Bradbury — On a brutal world scorched by day and f...