When Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, is violently attacked, she takes matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice that will uncover the dark secrets of her past.
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Author:Barry, SebastianSummary: -
Author:Saunders, GeorgeSummary:From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today...
- Author:Peterson, Tracie, Miller, JudithSummary:
21-year-old Amanda Broadmoor doesn't want to abandon her mentor Dr. Carstead when cholera strikes Rochester, New York, in 1899. But after the Broadmoor fortune is mishandled, Amanda must sacrifice her lofty aspirations to rescue her...
- Author:Donald, AlisonSummary:
Everyone makes mistakes, and brilliant scientist Harry Coover is no different. But Harry keeps making the same extra-sticky mistake, and he begins to wonder whether it's such a mistake after all...
- Author:Caldwell, GailSummary:
Caldwell was born in Texas in 1951; in a land of plains so vast they frightened her. Caldwell's mother was a clandestine lover of books; her father was a master sergeant in World War II. These personalities shaped Caldwell; during the...
- Author:Boekweg, SheenaSummary:
In 1927, seventeen-year-old Elsie and three other teenage girls compete for the heart of a boy who will be president. But Elsie starts to wonder what would happen if the name on that future ballot was hers.
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Author:Lightman, Alan P.Summary:In a series of essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Along the way, he provides in-depth...
- Author:Anderson, LarsSummary:
WITH A FOREWORD BY COACH BRUCE ARIANS. The extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of how Coach Bruce Arians, Tom Brady, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers came together to deliver one of the most improbable Super Bowl victories in NFL history...
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Author:Leopold, AldoSummary:Nature writings of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationist of our century.
- Author:Esper, Mark T.Summary:
Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration, with events and moments never before told.
- Author:Karnazes, DeanSummary:
The iconic superhuman endurance runner shares the hard-won wisdom and lessons he's learned from thirty years of competition as he embarks on his toughest challenge yet, the Western States 100.
- Author:Ellis, James H.Summary:
Anticipating the harm another war with England would bring, New England's regional leaders opposed it from the outset. Party politics played a major role. Federalists, dominant in the northeast, at every turn badgered and challenged the...
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Author:Hafner, KatieSummary:A grand tale of obsession about the brilliant Glenn Gould and the unique, temperamental instrument he came to love beyond all others, by a top New York Times writer. Glenn Gould was one of the most complex, brilliant artists of the...
- Author:Hansberry, LorraineSummary:
Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America—and changed American theater...
- Author:De Kay, James T.Summary:
De Kay recounts the life of Commodore Stephen Decatur in the first new biography of the great naval hero. He chronicles the exploits of one of 19th-century America's bravest and most celebrated heroes.
- Author:Oluseyi, Hakeem, Horwitz, JoshuaSummary:
In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverished childhood and crime-filled adolescence to ascend through the top ranks of research physics. "You'll encounter one extraordinary turn of...
- Author:Austin, Lynn N.Summary:
Austin tells the uplifting story of 20-year-old Violet Hayes and her search for her elusive mother and for true love. In her quest, Violet learns much about love, faith, and life as she marches for women's rights, feeds slum dwellers,...
- Author:Obama, BarackSummary:
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. #1 New York Times bestseller; named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book...
- Author:Sawyer, Kim VogelSummary:
Geoffrey Garrett leaves his 17- year-old fiancée in England while he establishes his Kansas ranch and builds her a proper house. But when he sends for her five years later in 1874, it's clear her feelings have changed far more than his...
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Author:Brenner, MarieSummary:Now a major motion picture starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci, and Jamie Dornan, A Private War is the story of legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war. In February 2012, Marie...
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