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God Save Texas : A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
Category: History
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Looming Tower, " the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well ...Show more
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Category: Non-Fiction
Going Clear - Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Category: Religion
The Basis For The New HBO Documentary. A National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Scientology presents itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its practices have long been shrouded in mystery. Now Lawrence Wright--armed with his investigative talents, ...Show more
Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Category: Non-Fiction
Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Toweris the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who t ...Show more
Mr. Texas - A Novel by Lawrence Wright
Category: Fiction
A sharply drawn send-up of Texas politics--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--about a dark-horse candidate who risks his personal happiness for a career in the Texas House of Representatives Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a p ...Show more
Plague Year : America in the time of Covid by Lawrence Wright
Category: Non-Fiction
'In the twenty-first century, infectious disease seemed like a nuisance, not like a mortal threat' Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second. The story starts ...Show more
The End of October by Lawrence Wright
Category: Fiction
A riveting and prescient thriller - from Pulitzer Prize winner, Lawrence Wright - that shows one man's race against time to save the world from a killer virus . . .
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Category: History
UPDATED AND WITH A NEW AFTERWORD National Book Award Finalist A "Time," " Newsweek," " Washington Post," " Chicago Tribune," ""and "New York Times Book Review" Best Book of the Year A gripping narrative that spans five decades, ""The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic f ...Show more
The Looming Tower : Al Qaeda's road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Category: History
Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Toweris the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who t ...Show more
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright
Category: Non-Fiction
The acclaimed account of the shocking American response to Covid-19, from the author of The Looming TowerThe story of The Plague Year starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400,000 deaths - a mortality a ...Show more
The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright
Category: History
With the Pulitzer Prize winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken, from t ...Show more