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An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalism NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana...

At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a high-powered television executive. David’s world is made up of the images that flicker across America’s screens, the fantasies that enthrall...

10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION NATIONAL BESTSELLER A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow...

For more than 15 years, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture. In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with fascinating subcultures and bizarre characters who could live nowhere else. Following Sides, we crash the redwood retreat of a cabal of powerful military-industrialists, and more.

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it “The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.”—The New York Times Book Review During three weeks in 1951, Jack...

New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress...

A memoir of the early 20th century in Appalachian Ohio. Born in 1920, Thomas Hart's memoir tells the story of a small, tight knit community in rural Ohio on the brink of change. Automobiles become common, roads are widened and paved, and Prohibition forces adults to hide their liquor in the tall grass. Hart relates boyhood memories of a bygone era where children learned in one room school houses, the circus was the greatest spectacle ever to behold, and leisure time consisted of hunting, fishing, camping, cabin building, and springing the best pranks on your friends and neighbors. The ...

"Americana" is a haunting anthology of stories by Jordan Hood that delves and takes inspiration from the chilling, mysterious events that have taken place throughout American History. From the earliest days of the colonial era to the modern day, these tales of murder, urban legends, missing persons, and small-town secrets will leave you feeling uneasy and on the edge of your seat. With the blend of horror and historical fiction, "Americana" is a must-hear for fans of both genres.

Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier, the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city, is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.

Parker Montgomery was once America's sweetheart. She took her first steps in the Capitol when her father was a congressman, and starred in his senatorial campaign ads. But in high school, during his first bid for the White House, she disappeared from the political limelight, leaving her home and best friend, Fitz, behind.

Lagos, mediados de los noventa. En el marco de una dictadura militar y en una Nigeria que ofrece poco o ningún futuro, Ifemelu y Obinze, dos adolescentes atípicos, se enamoran apasionadamente.

Take a ride down Route 66 in a '55 Crown Vic. Shield your nose and eyes from the dust as Okies leave for California. Drink strong coffee in an all-night diner. Hear a haunting train whistle in Gallup, New Mexico. Investigate a death on old 66. Take a last ride on a faithful Apaloosa and watch the sunset over a majestic saquero cactus. Feel Andy Payne's pain as he pounds the road to New York. Lost on Route 66 is an anthology of essays and short stories about the fabled highway that is filled with mystery, suspense, adventure and humor. Don't miss it.

La distanza tra la Nigeria e gli Stati Uniti è enorme, e non solo in termini di chilometri. Partire alla volta di un mondo nuovo abbandonando la propria vita è difficile, anche se quel mondo ha i tratti di un paradiso, ma per Ifemelu è necessario. Il suo paese è asfittico, l'università in sciopero. E poi, in fondo, sa che ad accoglierla troverà zia Uju e che Obinze, il suo ragazzo dai tempi del liceo, presto la raggiungerà. Arrivata in America, Ifemelu deve imparare un'altra volta a parlare e comportarsi. Diverso è l'accento, ma anche il significato delle parole.

Before he left for Afghanistan, Jake O'Reilly had everything - a beautiful wife, a baby on the way, a wonderful life. Three years later his wife is dead, and he is so haunted by his memories of war that he can't bring himself to go home. But when his wife's grandfather tracks him down and persuades him to come work on his ranch, where Jake's daughter is living, he agrees - even though he is reluctant to expose his little girl to the man he's become.

This book documents how Woody Guthrie was born and reared in the hardest of times. But as he became an adult, he took advantage of America’s eagerness to mythologize the working man into a grassroots hero (as in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath). He adopted the persona—the music, the speech, the look, and the habits--of the poor working class he observed in his travels. He hardly ever stepped out from behind that myth, though he was in fact an intellectual with a gift for writing poetry, novels, and songs that connected with the young and the old, the educated elite and the nearly...

Psalms speak to us as they express an array of human emotions — joy, fear, gratitude, rage, hope, and more. Yet, much of this is lost in most translations because: Few English speakers understand or can even read the original Hebrew. Nuances and poetry in the Hebrew words of Psalms are difficult to translate. Psalms often refer to people, places, events, and practices unknown to us today. The translator's word choice sometimes infers meanings not intended in the Hebrew.So, we lose much of the emotion that tugs at the heart every bit as much as it calls to the intellect. Much of Psalms is ...

Michael tiene la velocidad para ser un gran receptor abierto, pero no logra atrapar los pases con consistencia. El técnico defensivo ve potencial en la velocidad de Michael, y le hace probar como back defensivo. Luego el técnico principal lo asigna a los equipos especiales para que regrese los despejes.

Logan is doing well in his final year in school and Zion is about to open the coffee kiosk. Everything is running smoothly. Until Lorenzo Whitefeather summons Tate to the Acorn Casino with a mysterious death he needs help solving before the federal government gets involved. Zion doesn’t like Tate entangling himself with the taciturn, intimidating casino boss, so she insists on helping him solve yet another mystery. So much for leaving the mean streets of San Francisco for paradise.

La guerra civil estadounidense para jóvenes: ¡Descubra las batallas, los héroes y los sinsabores que dieron forma a los Estados Unidos de América! ¿Está preparado para descubrir la épica lucha que cambió a Estados Unidos para siempre? Retroceda en el tiempo a una nación dividida, donde valientes soldados, audaces líderes y gente corriente se enfrentaron a dificultades y esperanzas en un viaje hacia la libertad. Esto no es solo una lección de historia: es un relato de valor, unidad y lucha por los valores correctos. Este libro explora las causas de la guerra, las luchas y el viaje...

With a wildfire burning its way toward Paradise Peak, Tennessee, folks are drawing together to save the small mountain community. Times like these can make a hero out of a man - no matter what dark secrets he carries in his heart....