Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
10 best books like Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope (Jimmy Carter): Do It; Scenarios of the Revolution, Tea with Hezbollah: Sitting at the Enemies' Table Our Journey Through the Middle East, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The Joey Song: A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction, City on Fire: The Forgotten Disaster That Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle, A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense, The Great Political Theories, Volume 2, The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It, Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World's Religions Can Come Together, Condoleezza Rice
From the back cover: This book will become a Molotov cocktail in your very hands. Jerry Rubin has written The Communist Manifesto of our era. Do It! is a Declaration of War between the generations - calling on kids to leave their homes, burn down their schools and create a new society upon the ashes of the...
| Author | Ted Dekker |
| ISBN | 0307588270 |
Is it really possible to love one’s enemies?
That’s the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle East during the summer of 2008. It was a trip that began in Egypt, passed beneath the steel and glass high rises of Saudi Arabia, then...
| Author | John Fox Jr. |
| ISBN | 0813101565 |
John Fox Jr. published this great romantic novel of the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky and Virginia in 1908, and the book quickly became one of America's favorites. It has all the elements of a good romance -- a superior but natural heroine, a hero who is an agent of progress and enlightenment, a group...
| Author | Sandra Swenson |
| ISBN | 1937612716 |
By the age of twenty, Joey has OD'd, attempted suicide, quit college, survived a near-fatal car accident, done time behind bars, and been kicked out of rehab. Now manipulative and hateful, the once sweet and charming Joey is long gone.
Written from the place where love and addiction meet, this...
| Author | Bill Minutaglio |
| ISBN | 0060185414 |
On a day that dawned with brisk breezes, a clear sky, and perfect temperatures, the small town of Texas City suddenly found itself facing the greatest industrial disaster in the most industrialized nation on the planet. And, in time, the survivors of that all-American city found themselves wondering...
| Author | Robert Lawrence Smith |
| ISBN | 0688172334 |
The most valuable aspect of religion," writes Robert Lawrence Smith, "is that it provides us with a framework for living. I have always felt that the beauty and power of Quakerism is that it exhorts us to live more simply, more truthfully, more charitably."Taking his inspiration from the teaching of...
| Author | Michael Curtis |
| ISBN | 0380012359 |
The philosophy of politics
This carefully selected compilation of the significant writings of the great political philosophers, scientists, and thinkers will be an invaluable guide to the general reader as well as to the serious student of history, political science, and government....
| Author | Sara Bennett |
| ISBN | 0307340171 |
Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabulary—especially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas?
The time our children spend doing homework...
Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World's Religions Can Come Together
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 0385525052 |
No country, no culture, no person today is untouched by what happens in the rest of the world. Technological innovation, environmental degradation, economic gain & loss, nuclear weapons, instant communication have all created unprecedented familiarity among the world’s many cultures....
| Author | Elisabeth Bumiller |
| ISBN | 1400065909 |
Condoleezza Rice, one of most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. In this stunning new biography, New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female...
| Author | Cherie Blair |
| ISBN | 1408700980 |
After reading her life story I have tremendous admiration for Cherie Blair. She is a positive role model for all females of any age, religion or race. She is the mother of four, a judge, a barrister in her own right, the head of many charities for women and children, an author, a singer and the wife of one of...
| Author | Tom Brokaw |
| ISBN | 0375759352 |
Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years
From his parents’ life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River...
The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
| Author | John F. Kasson |
| ISBN | 0393350614 |
For four consecutive years, she was the world’s box-office champion. With her image appearing in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily, she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers, among...
| Author | Joe McGinniss |
| ISBN | 0671679457 |
In The Last Brother, McGinniss brings to life the childhood, the brief triumph & the long downward slide of the last Kennedy brother, exposing the chilling reality behind the glittering facade of America's 1st Dysfunctional Family, as well as the terrible cost of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy's...
| Author | Harry Jaffe |
| ISBN | 1682450171 |
Missionary. Radical. Hippy. Revolutionary. Red Mayor. Pragmatist. Socialist. Hot from the campaign trail, a vivid new biography that goes inside Bernie Sanders’s contradictions, his unusual life, and his electrifying quest to make the American dream a reality for all.
Vermont Senator...
| Author | Karen DeYoung |
| ISBN | 1400041708 |
Colin Powell was obviously an astounding fellow. Son of Caribbean immigrants who rises to the top of the military and political systems. He is described as a very bright, extremely self controlled charismatic leader. Reading about the workings of the White House in the 2 Iraq and 1 Afghanistan wars...
| Author | Joseph F. Girzone |
| ISBN | 0684813459 |
The Story Continues...
Joseph F. Girzone has woven another magical story, a modern-day parable, in Joshua and the Children, which gracefully continues the teachings and inspirations from his previous bestseller, Joshua. A stronger Joshua arrives in a deceptively ordinary village only to...
| Author | Hans L. Trefousse |
| ISBN | 0805069089 |
A leader of the Reconstruction era, whose contested election eerily parallels the election debacle of 2000
The disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, in which Congress set up a special electoral commission, handing the disputed electoral votes to Hayes,...
Widely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiography, he takes an unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York...
| Author | Harold S. Kushner |
| ISBN | 0385354096 |
From the beloved author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, deeply moving and illuminating reflections on what it means to live a good life.
As a congregational rabbi for half a century and the best-selling author of twelve books on faith, ethics, and how to apply the timeless wisdom of...
| Author | Helen Thomas |
| ISBN | 0684868091 |
I'm still here, still arriving at the White House in the wee hours of the morning, reading the papers and checking the wire, still waiting for the morning briefing, still sitting down to write the first story of the day and still waiting to ask the tough questions.
From the woman who has reported...
Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
| Author | Silas House |
| ISBN | 0813125464 |
Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something’s Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia. Each person’s story, unique and unfiltered, articulates...
| Author | Gail Caldwell |
| ISBN | 0812972562 |
In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place.
A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle–a place of both boredom and beauty,...
After four years in power, Stephen Harper's governance comes under the microscope of prominent Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin. Focusing on the growth of executive power under Harper and drawing on interviews with prominent insiders, Martin probes the smearing of opponents, the silencing...
