By Michael McKinley & Nancy Merritt Bell
To the world, the Vatican spy service doesn’t exist. But it does to Maddie Lynch, and now it needs her help…
Indie Gold Grand Prize Award Winner
By Dr. Richard Major
A one-of-a-kind guide to 101 of the best universities in the world.
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By Elvia Gómez Troya (Elvia la rastreadora)
A nature book told through the eyes of an amazing 11-year-old tracker.
By Chuck Wardell
The incredible story of a man counted out his whole life, until he eventually came up big. A journey from Vietnam to the White House, the Department of State, and as a corporate CEO.
Edgar Allan Poe is famous for “The Raven,” but many of his other works are just as spooky—if not more so. “The Haunted Palace” is a dark and beautiful exploration of how shades of the past haunt even the most luscious landscapes, “the greenest of our valleys.” This is a haunted house horror story in poetic form, a compelling exploration of “old time entombed.”
Fright flick master John Carpenter, who terrorized the big screen for the last 50 years with movies like The Fog and most of the Halloween movies, closed in on the power of the horror genre when he said, “What scares me is what scares you. We’re all afraid of the same things. That’s why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you’ll know what frightens me.”
How BookGo helped a neurosurgeon turn one chilling question into his first thriller. Every good thriller starts with a question. Dr. H. Robert John's was a frightening one.
How BookGo helped Charles W.B. Wardell III turn a life spanning Vietnam, Harvard, the White House and the boardroom into a starred, bestselling memoir.
Come Up Big, the engrossing story of the astonishing life of Charles "Chuck" W.B. Wardell III, is receiving high praise and new accolades. A starred review from Kirkus Reviews calls it: “A warmly inviting story of a full life.”
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Born in Mukachevo to parents who survived the Holocaust, Phil Friedman grew up in the shadows of Stalin’s Soviet Union. He built a career in a secret military electronics plant, navigated the constraints of a system that stifled freedom, and dreamed of a better life.
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