Nadia’s memories of her father are not happy ones. An angry, secretive man, he died when she was thirteen, leaving his past shrouded in mystery. When a stranger claims to have known her father during his early years in Eastern Europe, she agrees...
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The guardian of a boy from the Arctic Circle with a secret that might change the world risks her life to prove he’s innocent of murder in New York City.
Bobby Kungenook, a mysterious seventeen-year-old hockey phenom from the Arctic...
Three more stories of Saintly adventure show Simon Templar interpreting the law to his own advantage. In The Simon Templar Foundation, a poisonous legacy from his enemy Rayt Marius gives him the opportunity to make a great deal of money — if he...
Simon Templar, the inimitable Saint, takes on three high adventures: The Spanish War puts him on the trail of a murder and forty thousand pounds, sterling; The Unlicensed Victuallers gives Simon a chance to play at his favorite American game —...
Anyone wishing to understand the past, present and future of nuclear weapons should read this fine book before saying a word on the subject.
RICHARD PERLE, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and Assistant Secretary of...
When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the next 12 years. Certainly, the stage onto which...
Churchill’s Bomb reveals a new aspect of the great Prime Minister’s life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain’s policy on atomic weapons.
Graham Farmelo,...
The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look at the dark side of...
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Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef...
This is a dark age, a bloody age, an age of daemons and of sorcery. It is an age of battle and death and of the world’s ending. Amidst all of the fire, flame and fury it is a time, too, of mighty heroes, of bold deeds and great courage.
At...