Harvey Milkeloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleckwas elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milks assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century. Before finding...

"In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both hispolitical education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil"--

Who was Mary Queen of Scots? What role did she play in the history of Great Britain? Take a journey of discovery across the majestic landscapes of Scotland, England and France to find the woman behind the legend in this fascinating look into history.

"From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, a celebration of 52 influential and inspiring women who have profoundly changed the world through their lives, works and actions, reveals who they each have paved the way for gender equality in their own indomitable way"--NoveList.

Jack Burden, a young journalist, is asked by soon-to-be governor Willie Stark to uncover a scandal in Judge Irwin's past. Jack weighs the consequences.

When he was NY's Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer prosecuted crimes by America's largest financial institutions and some of the most powerful executives in the country. After his election as governor, with the largest margin in the state's history, many believed Spitzer was on his way to becoming the nation's first Jewish president. Then, shockingly, Spitzer's meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when the New York Times revealed that Spitzer...

In ALONE, ten men are left in solitude, and separated from each other, in the harsh Vancouver Island wilderness. With no camera crews or producers, they have to survive using only what they can stuff into a backpack.

"A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised in a world of enormous privilege against the backdrop of American history, this third generation of Kennedys often veered between towering accomplishment and devastating defeat. In his revelatory new book, acclaimed Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli draws back the curtain on the next generation...

"Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump’s GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing alone against the forces he believes are poisoning the party he once led. Romney was the first senator in history to vote to remove from office a president of his own party. When that president’s supporters went on to storm the US Capitol, Romney delivered a thundering...

Ésta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvándose así de una existencia vulgar.

Segunda novela de Isabel Allende, De amor y de sombra es un agudo testimonio de las dramáticas situaciones que se viven en ciertas regiones de América Latina, al tiempo que un canto de amor y de esperanza.

Con ternura e impecable factura literaria, Isabel Allende perfila el

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