The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) List price: $7.99 60 new, used & collectible available from $3.47. The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defi... |
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance List price: $14.95 125 new, used & collectible available from $7.25. In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small ... |
I.O.U.S.A.: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt. List price: $19.95 52 new & used available from $9.99. The United States has been spending its way deeper and deeper into the red, and saddling future generations with the mess—but who's paying attention? To answer that question, the companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A. talks with some of the most revered voices in the nation, including Warren Buffett; former Treasury Secretaries Paul O’Neill and Robert Rubin; Pete ... |
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America List price: $27.95 91 new, used & collectible available from $14.65. Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America ... |
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln List price: $21.00 33 new & used available from $10.92. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.... |
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World List price: $21.99 5 new available from $14.95. How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.Dewey's story starts in the... |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time List price: $15.00 166 new, used & collectible available from $6.75. The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mo... |
Outliers: The Story of Success List price: $27.99 31 new & used available from $16.18. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their... |
Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise List price: $13.95 77 new, used & collectible available from $7.11. At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader–one who can bring people together, be honest about the challenges we face, and move this nation forward. Change We Can Believe In outlines his vision for Am... |
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity List price: $26.00 55 new & used available from $15.00. The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my parents had remanded me to the penal institution of St. Brigid’s School in Westbury, New York, a cruel and un... |
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