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When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun--a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four--chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business.

A Golfer's Education is the true story of a young man, once a member of Harvard's golf team and a former writer for Golf Digest, who began his year in St.

De Kay recounts the life of Commodore Stephen Decatur in the first new biography of the great naval hero.

From the French and Indian War to Mount Vernon, from the American Revolution to the presidency, Ellis delivers what will stand the test of time as the definitive biography of the greatest American

At 14 years old, Tony began an affair with a married woman that ended when the jilted husband, a devout Roman Catholic, sent Tony to a Benedictine abbey.

A biography of Revolutionary War general and first President of the United States, George Washington, focusing on his use of spies to gather intelligence that helped the colonies win the war.

Klein reveals the truth about a woman who has managed to keep much of her life private.

A sickly and awkward boy who turned into a country music legend, Hiram Williams had reinvented himself as Hank Williams and taken to alcohol by the age of 14. He was dead by the age of 29.

David Halberstam offers listeners this moving profile of NFL coaching legend Bill Belichick. Early in his life, Bill realized he had a special aptitude for football and teaching.

The Osama bin Laden I Know is the definitive history of the world's most wanted man.

Peter R. Henriques, a leading scholar on George Washington and professor emeritus of history at George Mason University, produces a concise and vital volume on America's first president.

A biography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write

Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive.

Katz learns that living with four dogs on a rural New York farm is one thing.