"The Future Belongs to the People" by Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht is a compelling work that delves into the socio-political landscape of his time. Liebknecht, a prominent socialist and anti-war activist, articulates a vision for a society where the power lies in the hands of the people rather than the elite. His passionate advocacy for workers' rights and social justice resonates throughout the text, making it a significant contribution to political literature. The book serves as...

Kim Moreno, a clinical lab technician with a leading Biopharma firm is at the top of her game. All the while she's living with intense anxiety and grief caused by the traumatic death of her baby sister Grace ten years ago. How did she really die and why did her father disappear, never to be heard from again? To manage her anxiety, Kim self medicates with synthetic opioids, stolen from work. Years later, helping her mother move into a new home, she hears cries for help coming from a nearby ...

This is the story of four teachers who transformed a little Catholic high school into a creative experience by making learning fun. But they went too far. To save a colleague’s job, they joined the teachers’ union. With the Bishop’s blessing, the new principal abolished tenure and fired these tenured teachers, all of whom had several years of experience.The teachers took the battle to the school board, the pastor, the media and even the nun’s convent. Parents and students joined in...

"The best single volume available on the torturous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler." — TimeA bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era.Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and Hitler, from shared premises, e...

“[Lisa] Gardner keeps us guessing till the end!”—Los Angeles TimesDeath always strikes on time.Each time he strikes, he takes two victims. He waits for the first victim to be discovered—a body containing all the clues investigators need to find the second victim, who counts the seconds to a slow but certain death.Now two girls have disappeared and the deadly countdown begins again. Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy knows that the ki...

National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider." — The New York TImesThey Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position ...

The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: "a major achievement" ( New Republic).Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between 12 and 14 million civilians, most of them women and children. And the losses we...

Being disabled doesn’t mean being unable and he’s about to get schooled.Cooper Nelson’s SEAL career was cut drastically short when an explosion left him almost completely deaf. With so much of his pride and self-worth tied to the profession he loved above all else, Coop struggles in his nearly silent new world, his future seemingly bleak…until Commander Hurt badgers him into volunteering at the Riverton School for the Deaf. There, he meets teacher Kiera Hamilton, w...

**“LOTS OF CHARACTERS GET COMPARED TO MY OWN JACK REACHER, BUT PETRIE'S PETER ASH IS THE REAL DEAL.”—Lee Child*An Entertainment Weekly Must List PickIn the new novel featuring war veteran Peter Ash, “an action hero of the likes of Jack Reacher or Jason Bourne” (Lincoln Journal-Star), Ash has a woman’s life in his hands—and her mystery is stranger than he could ever imagine.**War veteran Peter Ash sought peace and quiet among the towering redwoods o...

The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Ewald Osers; 53,000 words)In this succinct, fact-based, insightful analysis of Hitler and his impact on the world, Sebastian Haffner displays his skills as a first-class journalist and a student of German and modern European history. A keen psychologist, he describes the man, the politician, the ideologue, the military leader, the mass-murderer, and ultimately the traitor to his own (adopted)...

This is the first volume in the complete proceedings of the Nuremberg trial of the German major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg, Germany. Taken from the original court transcript this volume covers the proceedings from 20th November 1945 to 1st December 1945 and represents an essential primary source for scholars and general readers alike. The transcripts are complete and contain the whole of the proceedings as taken from the original court doc...

FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he's picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals whose are extraordinarily gifted.It's there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witness...