 The Secret History of Star WarsStar Wars is one of the most important cultural phenomena of the Western world. The tale of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker has become modern myth, an epic tragedy of the corruption of a young man in love into darkness, the rise of evil, and the power of good triumphing in the end. But it didn’t... | | I Am Cyrus: Harry S. Truman and the Rebirth of Israel
2020 Selah Award Winner
Improbable, if not impossible. How could a people who’d been scattered for two millennia reestablish a homeland on their ancient soil?
Against all odds, an irresistible desire to return grew in courageous Jewish men and women who set out to rebuild their... | | Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel.
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