Keep It Pithy
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $10.99
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the...
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Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its...
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Half the Sky
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $11.99
#1 National BestsellerFrom two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa...
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.99
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world. Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking
The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan...
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of
Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America...
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Through the Perilous Fight
Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
Written by Steve Vogel
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99
In a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history,
Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation and inspired its National Anthem.
In the summer of 1814, the...
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Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $15.99
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply...
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