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Killing Lincoln By Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard In the midst of the patriotic celebrations in Washington D.C., John Wilkes Booth—charismatic ladies' man and impenitent racist—murders Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. A furious manhunt ensues and Booth immediately becomes the country's most wanted fugitive. Lafayette C. Baker, a smart but shifty New York detective and former Union spy, unravels the string of clues leading to Booth, while federal forces track his accomplices. Featuring some of history's most remarkable figures, vivid detail, and page-turning action, Killing Lincoln is history that reads like a thriller. Genre: Non-fiction eBooks Format: ePub, Kindle ________________________ The Life You Can Save By Peter Singer If you think you can’t afford to give money to the needy, you should read this book. Even if you think you’re already giving enough, and to the right places, I still urge you to read this book. In "The Life You Can Save", Peter Singer makes a strong case-logical and factual, but also emotional-for why each of us should be doing more for the world’s impoverished. This book will challenge you to be a better person... Genre: Non-fiction eBooks Format: Adobe, Microsoft, Palm, Google, Kindle ________________________ Midnight Rising By Tony Horwitz Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Tony Horwitz's riveting book travels antebellum America to deliver both a taut historical drama and a telling portrait of a nation divided—a time that still resonates in ours. Genre: Non-fiction eBooks Format: ePub, Kindle ________________________ The Power of Habit By Charles Duhigg In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes readers inside labs where brain scans record habits as they flourish and die; classrooms in which students learn to boost their willpower; and boardrooms where executives dream up products that tug on our deepest habitual urges. Genre: Non-fiction eBooks Format: ePub, Kindle ________________________ A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons By Robert M. Sapolsky An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti - for man and beast alike. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. Genre: Non-fiction eBooks Format: Adobe, Microsoft, Palm, Kindle ________________________ Rocketeers By Michael Belfiore In the more than forty years since the first human left the atmosphere of Earth, no one had ever done so without the help of a government agency. That changed on June 21, 2004, when SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space age. Genre: Non-fiction eBooks Format: Adobe, Microsoft, Palm, Kindle ________________________ Task Force Black By Mark Urban When American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the WMD their governments had promised were there. They quickly realized no such weapons existed. Instead they faced an insurgency- a soaring spiral of extremism and violence that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse. Task Force Black reveals not only the intensity of the secret fight that turned the tide in Baghdad but the rivalries and personal battles that had to be overcome along the way. Genre: Non-fiction eBooks Format: ePub Kindle ________________________ Unfamiliar Fishes By Sarah Vowell Recounting the brief, remarkable history of a unified and independent Hawaii, Vowell retraces the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England. Along the way, and with the best of intentions, the missionaries eradicated an environmentally friendly, laid-back native culture. Genre: Non-fiction eBooks Format: Adobe, ePub, Kindle ________________________ Women Count By Susan Bulkeley Butler Throughout history, women have struggled to change the workplace, change government, change society. So what’s next? It’s time for women to change the world! Whether on the job, in politics, or in their community, there has never been a better time for women to make a difference in the world. Susan Bulkeley Butler shows readers how to change the world through a series of inspiring case studies that chronicle how she and other pioneering women in a range of fields have done so in years past. Genre: Non-fiction eBooks Format: Adobe, ePub, Kindle Page 1 2
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