The monumental life of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of
our most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers
In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men put their quills to a dangerous document they called the Declaration of Independence.
In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men put their quills to a dangerous document they called the Declaration of Independence.
The adventures in Humphrey's Room 26 are hopping back into the
spotlight, from the perspective of Og the Frog.
When Og the Frog first comes to Room 26, he doesn't know what to think. He misses his friends from the pond, there are all kinds of strange noises, and the water is his tank just might be too clean (you know, a little muck never hurt anyone).
When Og the Frog first comes to Room 26, he doesn't know what to think. He misses his friends from the pond, there are all kinds of strange noises, and the water is his tank just might be too clean (you know, a little muck never hurt anyone).
A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed
the United States in each of his political
“lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan
political strategist, and as a president
Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times.
Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times.
Finalist for the Washington State Book Award
• From the award-winning author of The
Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish,
perhaps the last great wild food. salmon.
For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild, thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV.
For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild, thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV.
Not since Betty Eadie’s Embraced by the Light has a
personal account of a Near-Death Experience (NDE) been so utterly
different from most others—or nearly as compelling.
In the thirty years since Raymond Moody’s Life After Life appeared, a familiar pattern of NDEs has emerged.
In the thirty years since Raymond Moody’s Life After Life appeared, a familiar pattern of NDEs has emerged.
In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were
both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who
attended college--one at Princeton, the other at Columbia--and
studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George
Washington, and both became war heroes.
With the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Looming Tower,
Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major
journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten
powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he
recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken, from the
rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters
and aid workers by ISIS.
For readers of Station Eleven and The Snow Child,
Lily Brooks-Dalton’s haunting debut is the unforgettable
story of two outsiders—a lonely scientist in the Arctic and
an astronaut trying to return to Earth—as they grapple with
love, regret, and survival in a world transformed.
Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was
determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was
power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an
advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he
gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave.
Father-and-son writing team Gary and Jim Paulsen pick up where
their Road Trip left off. Ben has been invited to try out
for a special hockey academy. But Dad wants Ben to catch up to the
school field trip instead. So Ben, Dad, and their dogs, Atticus and
Conor, jump into their truck.
The American way of life, built on individual liberty and limited government, is on life support.
American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul of the government—not because we are doing anything wrong but because the government has decided it knows better.
In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New
York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged
with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888
brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found.
