The United States’ secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the mid-20th century is revealed in this “blistering exposé”, with a new introduction by the authors (Publishers Weekly). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard…
Hayes’s delightfully reimagined fairy tales get a theatrical presentation that makes this audiobook most entertaining. Fairies are renowned for granting mortals’ dearest wishes—but the price is usually painfully high. Enter the Bastard Champions, a trio of scoundrels portrayed by Scott Aiello, Marc Vietor, and Tavia Gilbert. They will perform any task as long as their…
In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures – far from John Hancock’s elegant model – have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the…
For more than 30 years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the Green Revolution succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than nine million people die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year – most of them in Africa and…
If you release the dragon . . . . Being the First Dragon, a mysterious demi-god who created the dragon race, certainly isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, he’s powerful and rules from afar with a kind and gentle heart. But, after centuries of watching his dragon children grow, he’s come to…
Now the star of her own reality show, The Family Frugalicious, Maddie Michaels heads south of the border with her family to cover bargain destination weddings at a swank but budget-friendly Mexican resort. Things get a little too real when timeshare sales manager Alejandro Espinoza makes a play for Maddie one evening and ends up…
When the aristocratic Vishov family is banished from their native Ustalav due to underhanded politics, they’re faced with a choice: fade slowly into obscurity or strike out for the nearby River Kingdoms and establish a new holding on the untamed frontier. For Lady Tyressa Vishov, the decision is simple. Together with her children and loyal…
From New York Times best-selling author Angie Fox, the first book in the new Southern Ghost Hunter mysteries. One simple mistake, for a girl who is about to lose her family home, releases the ghost of a long-dead gangster and opens Verity Long’s eyes to a whole new world. When out-of-work graphic designer…
Tis the season…for ghosts. Verity Long has come to terms with the fact that she can see spirits, and talk to them, and…she’s actually making cookies for one of them. But she’s drawing the line at any more ghost hunting or mystery solving. Until a dear friend needs help locating a missing antique at the…
From New York Times best seller Angie Fox, the second book in the new Southern Ghost Hunter mysteries. A haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe someone…even a…