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In LIKE DREAMERS --- winner of the Everett Family Jewish Book of the Year Award (a National Jewish Book Award) and the RUSA Sophie Brody Medal --- acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies shaping it from the Six-Day War to the present.

In 1948, President Harry Truman, enjoying a bath on the White House’s second floor, almost plunged through the ceiling of the Blue Room. A handpicked team of the country’s top architects conducted a secret inspection of the troubled mansion and, after discovering it was in imminent danger of collapse, insisted that the First Family be evicted immediately. What followed would be the most historically significant and politically complex home-improvement job in American history.

With a historian’s keen insight and a veteran political reporter’s eye for detail, Douglas R. Egerton re-creates the cascade of unforeseen events that confounded political bosses, set North and South on the road to disunion, and put not Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas but his greatest rival --- dark horse Abraham Lincoln --- in the White House.

Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, “Don’t Eat before You Read This,” by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one’s appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL became an even bigger sensation, a mega-bestseller with over one million copies in print. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business.

Against the throbbing backdrop of this shimmering and decadent city- almost a character in itself-Maxine Swann has created a stunning narrative of reawakened sensuality and compulsive desire that simultaneously explores with remarkable acuity themes of foreignness, displacement, and the trembling metamorphoses that arise from such states.

Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block brings together in one collection 16 of his short stories and a short play. These are truly tales from the dark side involving serial killers, dirty cops, obsessed fans, and dangerous, desperate people.

Life is great for Jake. His law practice is booming. He's crazy about the new woman in his life. His one-time delinquent nephew, Kip, is finally getting A's in school. But when money goes missing from Jake's client trust accounts, he confronts his banker, Pamela, who also happens to be his lover. She accuses Jake of skimming client funds; he accuses her of dipping into the till. Hours after threatening to report him to the State Attorney, she is killed, and all fingers point to Jake as the murderer. Is this the end of the linebacker-turned-lawyer?

In the strange, us-versus-them Christian subculture of the 1990s, a person’s faith was measured by how many WWJD bracelets she wore and whether he had kissed dating goodbye. Evangelical poster child Addie Zierman wore three bracelets asking what Jesus would do. She also led two Bible studies and listened exclusively to Christian music. She was on fire for God and unaware that the flame was dwindling --- until it burned out.

For over thirty years, Holly Burkhalter has worked as an international rights advocate for victims of genocide, rape, and injustice. Throughout most of her career, the heartbreak she encountered around the world --- and in her own life --- had convinced her that there was no such thing as a loving God. Then, Holly discovered a new truth: God was there --- in the grief, in the violence, in the questions. And God was good. It was the greatest, hardest, most radiant surprise of her life. This is her story.

Author and pastor Craig Groeschel helps you uncover who you really are --- a man created in the image of God with a warrior's heart --- and how to fight the good fight for what's right. You will find the strength to fight the battles you know you need to fight --- the ones that determine the state of your heart, the quality of your marriage, and the spiritual health of your family.