Peter Baker

A senior White House correspondent presents a history of the Bush and Cheney White House years that shares anecdotes by more than two hundred insiders to explore the inner conflicts that shaped the handling of significant events.

"An urgent, exciting, fiercely intelligent debut novel that goes deep inside the daily lives of two women--one in Rome, the other in North Carolina--to tell a story about the powerful interconnections, both personal and political, unseen and inexorable, that exist beneath the surface of our troubled world. For years, Amira--a recent convert to Islam living in Rome--has gone to work, said her prayers, and struggled to piece together her husband's redacted...

In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.

We have all heard about men and women who achieved the uncommon in our time and in the bible days, you might think to yourself that they are super humans, but I am just an ordinary human being. This book will inform you that God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things, and will enlighten you that heroes are built from zeros. This book supports the opinion of Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "It is the rough roads that leads to the heights of greatness." This...

Is what you see really what it is? Do all dreams come true? What happens when we find out our dreams never quite came true? Can we ever repair the relationships we willfully destroyed in our search for meaning in life? What are the parameters for reconciliation? These and many others could be the questions that need to be answered by many who went out on a limb looking for that which was reachable in their thinking only to find out that they were...