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Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Dave Cullen · Harper Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders - inspiring... |
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The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
Kara Dixon Vuic · Harvard University Press Pages: 340 Format: Hardcover
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The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.The emotional toll of war can be as debilitating to soldiers as hunger, disease, and injury. Beginning in World War I, in an effort... |
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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
William L. Silber · Princeton University Press Pages: 328 Format: Hardcover
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How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during... |
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Fraternity: An Inside Look at a Year of College Boys Becoming Men
Alexandra Robbins · Dutton Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Pledged is back with an unprecedented fly-on-the-wall look inside fraternity houses from current brothers' perspectives - and a fresh, riveting must-read about what it's like to be a college guy today. Two real-life stories. One stunning twist.... |
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Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left
Philip K. Howard · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning author Philip K. Howard lays out the blueprint for a new American society.In this brief and powerful book, Philip K. Howard attacks the failed ideologies of both parties and proposes a radical simplification of government to re-empower Americans in their daily choices. Nothing... |
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham · Simon & Schuster Pages: 560 Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.Early in the morning... |
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Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War
Samantha Seiple · Seal Press Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening look at Little Women author Louisa May Alcott's time as a Civil War nurse, and the far-reaching implications her service had on her writing and her activism Louisa on the Frontlines is the first narrative nonfiction book focusing on the least-known aspect of Louisa May Alcott's... |
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg · Liveright Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor... |
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