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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...

Covers the physical characteristics and possible behaviors of dinosaurs, categorized by when they lived, and also provides information on the prehistoric animals that lived with the dinosaurs, how fossils are formed and excavated, and why they may have beome extinct.

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis.

On March 30, 1981, President Reagan narrowly escaped death after he was cut down by a sniper's bullet. However, few really knew how close the president came to dying. Here, award-winning journalist Del Quentin Wilber chronicles the assassination attempt, retracing the footsteps of those who were responsible for saving President Reagan's life as well as those who were involved in the shooter's apprehension.

Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia, to the current national crisis. An instant New York Times and indie bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: "a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency" (New...

A collection of NPR pieces originally broadcast between 2000-2007 reporting on outdoor adventure in a variety of locations.

How pure is the air you breathe? Plants are the lungs of the earth: they produce the oxygen that makes life possible, add precious moisture, and filter toxins. Houseplants can perform these essential functions in your home or office with the same efficiency as a rainforest in our biosphere. In research designed to create a breathable environment for a NASA lunar habitat, noted scientist Dr. B.C. Wolverton discovered that houseplants are the best filters...

"From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America finds itself on today--and how we can save ourselves."

Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made...

"In the early hours of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills entered six words into the log book of the Watergate office complex that would change the course of history: 1:47 AM Found tape on doors; call police. The five ​men-Virgilio Gonzalez, Bernard Baker, James McCord, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis-arrested and charged with attempted burglary that night kicked off the biggest scandal in American politics. Over the next two...