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God Save Texas - A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
Category: History
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower--and a Texas native--takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. - "Beautifully written.... Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the tra ...Show more
God Save Texas - A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
Category: History
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God Save Texas : A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
Category: Politics
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Category: Biography
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Category: Languages and Reference
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: Biography Memoir
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists—both famous and less ...Show more
Going Clear - Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Category: Biography
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 & THE ROAD TO 9/11 by WRIGHT LAWRENCE
Category: History
The bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the history of 9/11: the basis for the original Hulu series starring Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Jeff Daniels, and Tahar Rahim. A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fun ...Show more
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
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: Science
'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 DEADLY VIRUS. QUARANTINE. A WORLD IN LOCKDOWN. THE THRILLER THAT PREDICTED IT ALL.THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Flies thrillingly, eerily close to reality' Guardian'This page-turner... is riveting and spookily anticipates much that has unfolded in reality' Sunday TimesA race-against-time thril ...Show more