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The Lucky Ones: A Memoir
Zara Chowdhary - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A moving memoir by a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves political and family histories in a tribute to her country's unique Islamic heritage. "A warning, thrown to the world, and a stunning debut - Chowdhary is a much-needed new voice."... |
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Kent State: An American Tragedy
Brian VanDeMark - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A definitive history of the fatal clash between Vietnam War protestors and the National Guard, illuminating its causes and lasting consequences.On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters... |
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Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
Richard J Evans - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy. "Evans . . . offers these eye-opening portraits of the heart of evil in an effort to understand what kind of people fell under Hitler's spell. . . . A meticulously researched, sobering look at the Nazi era and the people... |
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The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
Valerie Bauerlein - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Valerie Bauerlein's blistering, unforgettable account of the Murdaugh saga leaves no stone unturned, helping us finally truly understand the man at the center of one of the century's wildest crime stories." - Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road and Lost Girls.... |
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Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. . "Patriot is by turns funny, fiery, reflective and tragic, laced with Navalny's trademark wry humor and idealism....a gutting personal... |
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Illiberal America: A History
Steven Hahn - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.A storm of illiberalism,... |
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The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
Robin Reames - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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How rhetoric - the art of persuasion - can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony. The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded. . In this book,... |
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Raw Deal: The Indians of the Midwest and the Theft of Native Lands
Robert Downes - Wandering Press, The
Format: Hardcover
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RAW DEAL explores the theft of Native lands by squatters, speculators, unfair treaties and blatant swindles, focusing on the Indians of the Midwest and the Great Lakes.Although Indian lands were paid for with hard cash and services provided by the U.S. government, it was always for pennies... |
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The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
Susannah Gibson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit.In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated,... |
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Cops And Robbers And Civilians: The True Story Of The Kaleva Bank Robbery
Michael L. Lenz - Independently published
Format: Paperback
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The true story of one of the most historical bank robberies that you've never heard of! A small Michigan town in the 1930's became the target of four men who had designs of a fast "grab and go" armed robbery of the Kaleva Bank. In the course of their crime spree there... |
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