According to the New York Times, Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read . . . or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with every dazzling idea and penetrating insight intact, delivered in clear, accessible, listener-friendly prose. Published as four short books in the famous...

"Johnny Depp and the cast of Pirates of the Caribbean present the buccaneer lifestyle as a back-stabbing, high-living, hard-drinking world. It makes for an entertaining series, but is it a true depiction of the times?" --

"There's always been controversy over the settlement of America. U.S. students have been taught that Columbus discovered America, yet what he found was neither America, nor was it undiscovered. . . This book explains the establishment of the thirteen colonies not just through the eyes of the colonists, but of Native Americans, African slaves, and the British Empire as well. Readers will learn that religious freedom wasn't the only reason colonists...

A real-life story of Pope Francis, the 'People's Pope' and 266th leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

"The Titanic includes enough real stories of the tragic "unsinkable ship" and its passengers and crew to fill an ocean liner. Throughout, BeForever character Samantha Parkington shares snippets of her own exciting fictional story of traveling as a first class passenger in the early 1900s, when steamship was the only way to travel across the ocean." --

"Pearl Harbor features real stories of that fateful Sunday morning in 1941 when Japanese planes executed a surprise attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. American Girl Nanea Mitchell shares her own experiences adjusting to the drastic changes to everyday life in Hawaii following the attack"--Amazon.