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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
REBECCA SKLOOT · BROADWAY BOOKS
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Soon to be an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important... |
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Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home
Amy Haimerl · Running Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for $35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy.As... |
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Legendary Locals of East Boston
Regina M Marchi · Legendary Locals
Pages: 127
Format: Print book
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Once a rural paradise known as "Noddle's Island," East Boston is the site of key developments in the nation's history, including the first naval battle of the American Revolution, the creation of the world's fastest sailing ships, the country's first underwater... |
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Hampton Sides · Random House Inc
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress... |
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The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
Robert S Boynton · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted from coastal Japanese towns by North Korean commandos. In what proved to be part of a global project, North Korea attempted to reeducate the abductees and train them to spy on the state's behalf. When the project... |
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1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire
Rebecca Rideal · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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1666 was a watershed year for England. An outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War, and the devastating Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions.Shedding light on these dramatic events and their context,... |
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GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love
Duncan Barrett · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 361
Format: Paperback
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For readers enchanted by the bestsellers The Astronaut Wives Club, The Girls of Atomic City, and Summer at Tiffany's, an absorbing tale of romance and resilience - the true story of four British women who crossed the Atlantic for love, coming to America at the end of World War II to make... |
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The Minimum Wage: A Reference Handbook
Oren M. Levin-Waldman · ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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This unbiased look at the minimum wage debate in America traces the history of minimum wage policy at both the federal and state levels, discusses the controversies swirling around the issue, and examines the veracity of claims made by people on both sides of the debate. Presents data not typically... |
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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
John B. Boles · Basic Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 |
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American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt
John Beckman · Pantheon
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America's unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American. From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth... |
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This Divided Island: Life, Death, and the Sri Lankan War
Samanth Subramanian · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Samanth Subramanian has written about politics, culture, and history for the New York Times and the New Yorker. Now, Subramanian takes on a complex topic that touched millions of lives in This Divided Island. In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed,... |
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Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Sabina Knight · Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity... |
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