Identity Wars

Fourteen months after her grandmother's funeral, archivist Nora Kamińska-Bell is finally clearing out the Chicago apartment: banker's boxes, a legal pad, and the quiet certainty that dead women keep no more secrets. By dusk she has forty-seven children's names, a forged German identity card bearing her grandmother's face, and a name that isn't Marta's at all. Hidden inside the only Polish book her grandmother ever kept, hollowed out and sewn shut for seventy years, is proof of a life Marta never spoke of: a courier for one of occupied Poland's most dangerous rescue networks, running Jewish...

“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue...

From the author of NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO and BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO, a powerful story of war in our time, love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all. This story might sound familiar at first: it is about a platoon of mostly nineteen-year-old boys sent...

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres...

Unseen Wars is a raw and honest conversation between your Mind, Subconscious, and Self, the three voices quietly shaping every choice, fear, and pattern in your life. Through powerful dialogues and grounded lessons, Mariana Smith guides you to stop fighting your own thoughts and start leading them. This is not a traditional self help book. It is a mirror that reveals the emotional patterns keeping you stuck, the guilt weighing you down, and the need for safety hidden beneath your anxiety. You will learn how to create peace from within, reconnect with your truth, and rewrite the story your ...

She escaped the chains. But not the secret that could destroy her. Virginia, 1820. Born into bondage, Elizabeth has spent her life learning one brutal truth—freedom is never given. It is taken. When a single desperate chance presents itself, she runs… leaving behind everything she has ever known. But escape is only the beginning. With a complexion light enough to pass and a past she must bury, Elizabeth steps into a dangerous new world—one of wealth, power, and privilege in the very society that once claimed to own her. Reinventing herself is her only hope. One mistake will cost her ...

Kurt is an English evacuee with a difference, his father is a Nazi. As Kurt grows into an adult and is forced to pretend he is someone he isn’t for his own protection, can he survive in the hostile world in which he finds himself? And with his enemies closing in, will even the woman he loves believe who he really is? Sent to a small town deep in the English countryside to escape the bombing of London during the Second World War, Kurt should have been safe but a chance discovery will change his life in ways he could never have imagined when the war finds him and challenges both his ...

The book reveals the universal and cosmic love of the Red Road. The Red Road is the philosophy/worldview/religion of the native Indian tribes/pueblos of North and South America. This worldview promotes integration with Mother Earth and the cosmos to achieve harmony within eternally evolving existence. Using the Chicano as an example, the book explores the human lifetime as a cosmic being with eternal cycles of reincarnation and integration. This cosmic journey is examined from the perspective of the Red Road.

Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times bestselling “enduring masterpiece” (The Atlantic) about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story...

Read by the author. Become a better husband, father, and leader when you learn to express your emotions in a healthy way. In a culture that tells men to suppress instead of express, join bestselling author, speaker, and leader Jason Wilson (featured in the award-winning ESPN documentary The Cave...

Death was just the beginning… now it might be the beginning of my end. Answers finally brought into the light have revealed who switched my body. Or should I say… switched it back. Apparently, it was mine all along. And now I’m finally free of the Shadow Academy. But instead of gaining my...

The definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy. “To read The Republic as Bloom means it to be read is to question everything we think we know about government, politics, the best human life, and the nature of truth.” —Adam...

The million-copy bestselling author of The Psychopath Test returns with a shocking, darkly comic trip to the furthest reaches of the masculinity crisis I honestly have no clue what is going on. This is very weird. We left. Was completely fucked. All good now. When Jon Ronson received a series of...

He traced his friend's name on a cold stone wall. Then he told her everything. Standing before the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, an old veteran reaches back across centuries to tell his granddaughter the truth about where they came from. Not just a family history, but the story of an entire people built from the earth up, only to have it taken from them. The Acadians carved a life from wild coastland, built farms from saltwater marshes, and forged a culture entirely their own. But they lived between two empires, and that was a dangerous place to stand. When the English came, they did not come ...

The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! Three women. One daring mission. 1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen...

She walked into a Nazi concentration camp twice a week for two years. Every officer who saluted her would have shot her on sight if they'd known who she really was. Lwów, 1941. Dr Pepi Mehlwasser is a Jewish mathematician with nowhere left to run — until she works out that the Germans don't hunt people. They hunt paperwork. So she becomes Countess Janina Suchodolska: Polish, Catholic, aristocratic, and entirely invented. A woman the SS will hold a door open for. In occupied Lublin she talks her way into the Polish welfare council, and from there to the gates of Majdanek — arguing with ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Read by Author, Mike Hixenbaugh, who delivers this compelling and eye-opening account. The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education...

The true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she’d stumbled onto the project of a lifetime—a biopic of...

A major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (The New York Times Book Review) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, left many Americans feeling alienated, despised...

A “gripping and scrupulously reported” (The Washington Post) investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to Xi Jinping’s definition of who is “Chinese,” from an award-winning NPR correspondent. “Emily Feng’s...