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A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
ELIZABETH WEIN · Balzer Bray
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name VerityIn the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat.... |
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
Helen Zia · Ballantine Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution - a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. "A true page-turner. . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history... |
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Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party
Jon Ward · Twelve
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From a strange, dark chapter in American political history comes the captivating story of Ted Kennedy's 1980 campaign for president against the incumbent Jimmy Carter, told in full for the first time. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545}... |
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The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World
Patrick Nunn · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In The Edge of Memory, Patrick Nunn explores the science in folk history. He looks at ancient tales and traditions that may be rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and can be explored via geological evidence, such as the Biblical Flood.We all know those stories that have been told... |
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The New Debtors' Prison: Why All Americans Are in Danger of Losing Their Freedom
Christopher B. Maselli · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Debtors' prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, as antiquated as leeching, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form. Today more than 20 percent of the prison population is incarcerated for financial reasons... |
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A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
Joshua S. Goldstein · PublicAffairs
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, practical way to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change. As climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries... |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Indian America from 1890 to the Present
DAVID TREUER · Riverhead Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history... |
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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... |
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A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
Zach Vertin · Pegasus Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable chronicle of America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch, from euphoric birth to heart-wrenching collapse. The birth of South Sudan was celebrated the world round -- a triumph for global justice and the end of one of the world's most devastating wars. The Republic's... |
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