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Nelson Mandela is remembered as the elderly man with a kind smile who spent years in prison before becoming the first black president of South Africa. Young Mandela takes us into the heart of South Africa to paint a portrait of the Mandela many have forgotten.

Detective Houser wants nothing more than his retirement, but when a murder case involving the WMM firm lands on his desk, he cant avoid it. All of law enforcement knows that WMM Advertising, also known as We Make Millionaires, is one of the biggest and hardest-to-penetrate fraudulent telemarketing firms in the state of Georgia. A tape recording of a mans death may finally help Houser make a case against the firm. Calling in Alexis Greenspan, a...

In A Very Irregular Head, Rob Chapman lifts the veil of secrecy that has surrounded the legend of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett for nearly four decades, drawing on exclusive access to family, friends, archives, journals, letters, and artwork to create the definitive portrait of a brilliant and tragic artist. Besides capturing all the promise of Barretts youthful years as a rock star, Chapman challenges the notion that Barrett was a hopelessly...

This is an examination of the imminence of Christs return in light of todays headlines and the events recorded in Scripture. The morning newspapers are jammed with alarming headlines and stories asking questions no one can answer. In Storm Warning, Billy Graham examines the problems facing America today compared with what is to come as revealed in the Bible. He answers the tough questions as only he can, with astute biblical insight, and point...

Children will enjoy hearing Betty White, the popular television personality, narrate these seven stories for a whole week of adventures. The stories in this collection will take children on seven enjoyably entertaining outings with the delightful Betty White as their companion. Included here are: Day at the Aquarium, Day at the Farm, Day at the Library, Day at the Zoo, Day at Santas Workshop, Day at the City, and Day with Dad at the County Fair.

Heather Sellers is face-blindthat is, she has prosopagnosia, a neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing faces. Growing up she took cues from speech, hairstyle, and gait, but she sometimes kissed a stranger thinking he was her boyfriend or failed to recognize her own parents. She feared she was crazy. Yet it was her mother who made her daughter walk on her knees to spare the carpet and her father who wore panty hose an...

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The literary canon is filled with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines and legendary female authors. Like todays women, they too placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family. When their backs were against the wall, characters like Scarlett OHara, Jo March, Jane Eyre, and Elizabeth Bennet fought backsometimes with words, sometimes with gritty actions. Their commonsense decisions resonate even more powerfu...

Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian bringing hope and courage in a time of great doubt. The Weight of Glory, considered by many to be Lewiss finest sermon of all, is an incomparable explication of virtue, goodness, desire, and glory. Also included are: Transposition, On Forgiveness, Why I Am Not a Pacifist, and Learning in War-Time, in which Lewis prese...

Thomas Sowell, one of Americas leading voices on racial and ethnic matters, asks: What is it that allows certain groups to get ahead? He asserts that productive skills are the key to understanding the economic advancement of particular racial or ethnic groups, as well as countries and civilizations, and that the spread of those skills explains much of the advancement of the human race. Whether these skills, aptitudes, and disciplines are calle...

In the Polish city of Lodz, the Brothers Ashkenazi grew up very differently in talent and in temperament. Max, the firstborn, is fiercely intelligent and conniving, determined to succeed financially by any means necessary. Slower-witted Jacob is strong, handsome, and charming but without great purpose in life. While Max is driven by ambition and greed to be more successful than his brother, Jacob is drawn to easy living and decadence. As waves...

Was aviation pioneer and American hero Charles A. Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer, or was he the target of a vicious personal vendetta by President Roosevelt? In Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt, James Duffy tackles these questions head-on by examining the conflicting personalities, aspirations, and actions of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles Lindbergh. Painting a politically incorrect portrait of both men, Duffy shows how the hostility between these two...

January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbuls streets, unaware of the men following her. When the police discover a shipload of guns and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up, suspicion falls on a socialist commune Artis friends organized in the eastern mountains. Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha is called in to investigate. He soon encounters his most ruthless adversary to date: Vahid, head of a special b...

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This award-winning collection of nine stories is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque, each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by ...

In this stand-alone continuation of the tale begun in Frostbite, horror star David Wellington delivers another gripping werewolf tale in which heroine Chey is once again forced to fight for her own humanity. Overwinter opens as protagonist Chey, bitten by a werewolf and cursed to live out eternity as a monster, prowls the Arctic Circle on the trail of an ancient secret, the one thing that could remove the lycanthropic curse and make her human ...

For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his lifes work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry. There is neither glory nor profit in correctly defining what counts as medical illness from what does not. People wishing to protect themselves from medically and po...

In the Frederick Douglass Housing Projects, the name of Jada Butler is synonymous with drama. But there is about to be a new contender to the throne of ghetto antics. Malika is a young, single mother trying to make a life in public housing. When she meets Teddy, she has new hope for the future. The only problem is, hes already married. Guccis fianc is now a rising star in the music industry. Shes thrilled when his tour brings him to New York. ...

This collection brings together essays from the four volumes of Christopher Milne's memoirs. From his much publicized childhood on Cotchford Farm to his war experiences, his marriage, and his proprietorship of a successful bookshop in a small English town, the life of the famous author's son was one of much joyand some pain. It was also one of deep introspection. The selected writings offered here illuminate the shy, quiet man who was a though...

Larry and Silas were unlikely boyhood friends, their worlds as different as night and day. Still, a special bond developed between them. Then tragedy struck. A girl who lived up the road from Larry went to the drive-in movie with him, and nobody saw her again. Her stepfather tried to have Larry arrested, but no body was found. The incident shook up the town, including Silas, and the bond the boys shared was irrevocably broken. Almost thirty ye...

The NBA has returned to prominence on the backs of phenoms like LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Garnett. The media promotes them, the shoe companies pay them, and America applauds. But how exactly do such players reach the pros? What do they give up to get there? And what happens to those who fall short? Drawing on eight years of reporting and telling the very specific tale of one talented young recruit, his coach, and his teammates, Geor...