In the trauma center of Atlanta's busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city's poor, wounded, and unlucky?and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. Then, in one...
For Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke University men’s basketball team, certain words have special importance and force. Coach K uses them every day to energize, motivate, and teach his...
George Mallory was a schoolteacher who loved mountain climbing. Mallory once told a reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, “because it is there.” On his third try in 1924, at age...
In 17th-century Persia, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. When her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and without a dowry. With nowhere...
When the former shot-caller of the country's most feared white supremacist prison gang contacts Burke, he comes with references...and the promise of a huge score. Terminally ill, the ex-con needs major...
The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been...
The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
David E. Sanger
The Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times examines the effect the Bush Administration’s foreign and domestic policies will have on global politics.
