In his first book, The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay illustrates a tale of a small boy’s journey throughout Africa and his transformation from juvenescence into young adulthood during the era of African apartheid, loosely mirroring the life of the author himself. The book eventually went on to become a movie; however, many critics found the film far inferior...
When one thinks of Los Angeles, California, sunny beaches, multilingual communities, and burdening taxes probably come to mind. In the world of Legend, an apocalyptic fiction book by author Marie Lu, there is barely any of the sprawling metropolis left unaffected by natural disasters.
The United States of America? Pffft. That’s been gone for years. In its place there are...
Exhaling through his nose, aiming through the scope of his rifle, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle pulled the trigger. The bullet leapt out of the rifle, screamed through the air, and directly hit its target: a woman. The women, a middle-aged Iraqi, had been attempting to set off a grenade and to blow herself up, taking many U.S. Marines along...
“Under the bridge downtown is where I drew some blood/Under the bridge I could not get enough/Under the bridge forgot about my love/Under the bridge I gave my life away.”
Perhaps no other set of lyrics that Anthony Kiedis—the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers—wrote is as insightful or powerful as this set here. These lyrics, excerpted from...
Almost all Americans go through life knowing who the Founding Fathers are and their significance, but most people have no idea about the Founding Fathers’ connections to secret societies such as the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, and even the Illuminati.
Dr. Robert Hieronimus presents these connections and reveals the influences that these societies had on men such as George Washington and...
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was every part the legend that he has become today. In this “towering biography,” Edmund Morris’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography chronicles the life of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. from his birth to his appointment from Vice-President to President of the United States after President McKinley was assassinated, and everything in between (Time Magazine).
This “meticulously researched and beautifully...
Christopher Paolini took over 3 years to write Inheritance, the final book in the Eragon cycle, and Inheritance is most definitely worth the wait.
For those not familiar with the four books, Paolini’s bestseller series records the tale of a young adult named Eragon as he struggles to overthrow Galbatorix, an evil tyrant who rules the fantasy word of Algaesia...
Five seconds. Five seconds of machine-gun fire was all it took for the modern FBI to be created. The Kansas City Massacre of 1933, which at the time was the second deadliest murder of law-enforcement officers in American history, left four government officials bloodily murdered in a train station parking lot, sparking a shock wave felt all the...
