March 10, 2010

Nonfiction Best Sellers

  1. In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
  2. Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
    #1 New York Times bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
  3. In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
  4. Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
    "If you believe it's time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all -- then I ask you to read this book...."

    In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation's problems.

    One such American, Thomas Paine, was an ordinary man who changed the course of history by penning Common Sense, the concise 1776 masterpiece in which, through extraordinarily straightforward and indisputable arguments, he encouraged his fellow citizens to take control of America's future -- and, ultimately, her freedom.

    Nearly two and a half centuries later, those very freedoms once again hang in the balance. And now, Glenn Beck revisits Paine's powerful treatise with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government's easy solutions, two-part monopoly, and illogical methods and take back our great country.

  5. Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies
  6. Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies
  7. Zeitoun
  8. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

    They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congressmen of both parties describe them as the most influential religious organization in Washington. They say they are not Christians, but simply believers.

    Behind the scenes at every National Prayer Breakfast since 1953 has been the Family, an elite network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful. Their goal is "Jesus plus nothing." Their method is backroom diplomacy. The Family is the startling story of how their faith—part free-market fundamentalism, part imperial ambition—has come to be interwoven with the affairs of nations around the world.

  9. Outliers: The Story of Success
    In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.


    Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.