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Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio
Summary (from the publisher): On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global...
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Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin
Summary (from the publisher): Barack Obama’s approval ratings are at an all-time low. A recent Gallup poll found that half of the Americans polled said Obama did not deserve a second term. Weary of...
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Martin Guitars: A History
A few months ago, I was researching Martin guitars. Of course, since I know nothing about guitars, I turned to books instead of music shops to learn more about the product. Well, I didn’t end up...
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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Summary (from the publisher): A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O’Reilly’s...
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Blood Diamonds by Greg Campbell
Summary (from the publisher): First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These “blood diamonds” are smuggled out of...
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Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace by Kate Summerscale
Summary (from the publisher): “I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman—bodily and morally the husband’s slave—a very doubtful happiness.” —Queen Victoria to her...
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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Summary (from the publisher): Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren’t as simple as they seem....
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No Easy Day by Mark Owen
Summary (from the publisher): From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s...
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One Shot at Forever by Chris Ballard
Summary (from the publisher): In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats defied convention and the odds. Led...
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Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Summary (from the publisher): In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin-a New York Times columnist and one of the country’s most respected financial...
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Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Summary (from the publisher): Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and...
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Rocks of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould
Summary (from the publisher): Writing with bracing intelligence and clarity, internationally renowned evolutionist and bestselling author Stephen Jay Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has...
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The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Summary (from the publisher): In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits...
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
Summary (from the publisher): What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us...
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Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
Summary (from the publisher): On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding...
View ArticleThe Laptop DJ Handbook
Well, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a “laptop DJ” until I came across this book while browsing at a store. Apparently, there’s all kinds of software out there now, like Serato Scratch by...
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There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
Sumary (from Wikipedia): There are No Children Here follows the lives of two young brothers, Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, who live in the Henry Horner Homes, one of Chicago’s subsidized housing...
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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Summary (from the publisher): In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a...
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by...
Summary (from the publisher): Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like...
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Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Summary (from the publisher): In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand...
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