Recent Arrivals from Casa Pacifica

On November 22, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother had been shot. JFK would not survive. In The Revolution of Robert Kennedy, journalist John R. Bohrer focuses in intimate and revealing detail on Bobby Kennedy's life during the three years followng JFK's assassination. Torn between mourning the past and plotting… Read more about this item

On November 22, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother had been shot. JFK would not survive. In The Revolution of Robert Kennedy, journalis John R. Bohrer focuses in intimate and revealing detail on Bobby Kennedy's life during the three years followng JFK's assassination. Torn between mourning… Read more about this item

The embodiment of American conservative thought and jurisprudence, Antonin Scalia cast an expansive shadow over the Supreme Court for three decades. His death at a Texas hunting resort in February 2016 created a dilemma for Republican leadership faced with the prospect of yet another Obama Supreme Court nominee, this time one who could tip the ideological blance of the court… Read more about this item

Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to eah other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of sanctuary, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious… Read more about this item

Never has science been more important to our lives or to the future of our planet than now. Never has it been more crucial that scientific discoveries are clearly and widely disseminated, or that the enemies of science-from the malicious to the muddled-are challenged and exposed. All we can learn from scientific endeavour must be brought out of the laboratory,… Read more about this item

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her-but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only… Read more about this item

Winning author of The Looming Tower, now gives us an electrifying thriller about a mysterious killer virus bringing the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions.… Read more about this item

Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho to a TV debut on Top of the Pops, the cusp of chart success, glory in… Read more about this item

On a old and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. Ursula dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she… Read more about this item

Bill White and the young men of McMinn County answered their nation's call after Pearl Harbor. They won the freedom of the world and returned to find that they had lost it at home. A corrupt political machine was in charge, protected by violent deputies, funded by racketeering, and kept in place by stolen elections- the worst allegations of voter… Read more about this item

At ninety,musician and artist Tony Bennett is as vibrant and productive as ever. In addition to his prodigious musical output, which includes albums, concerts and personal appearances, this beloved and enduring singer has written yet another book. While in his 2012 work, Life Is a Gift, Tony reflected on the lessons he learned over the years, in Just Getting Started… Read more about this item

Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why? While populist rulers certainly… Read more about this item

No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as "Super K", the "indispensable man" whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists scouring his every "telcon" for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing… Read more about this item

After his friend suspects something strange going on at the launch facility where they both work-and then goes missing -Martin Hepton doesn't believe the official line of "long-term sick leave". Refusing to stop asking questions, he leaves his old life behind, aware that someone is shadowing his every move. The only hope he has is his ex-girlfriend Jill Watson, the… Read more about this item

Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford University on a football scholarship, accepted a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, then studied at Yale Law School. Graduating from Yale, his options were limitless. He chose public service. He chose to move to a rough neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, where he worked as a tenants' rights lawyer before… Read more about this item

We have been here before. In this timely and revealing book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning. # 1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. With clarity and purpose Meacham explores contentious periods and how presidents… Read more about this item

In 1864, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, two newspapers published a call, allegedly authored by President Lincoln, for the immediate conscription of 400,000 more Union soldiers. New York streets erupted in pandemonium. Wall Street markets went wild. When Lincoln sent troops to seize the newspaper presses and arrest the editiors, it became clear: the proclamation was a… Read more about this item

The Road to Camelot tells the story of a young and undistinguished junior senator who plotted his way to the presidency and changed the way we nominate and elect presidents. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned over the accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election and plotted a successful course… Read more about this item

Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progreseive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the… Read more about this item

As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementay school teacher, an ambitious goal, given her family's modest means. Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a distinguisheed law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt.… Read more about this item