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Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds
Michael Broyles - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how unexpected connections between music, technology, and race across three tumultuous decades changed American culture.How did a European social dance craze become part of an American presidential election? Why did the recording industry become racially divided? Where did rock... |
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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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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Chantha Nguon - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. . RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMOND. Take a well-fed nine-year-old... |
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
Sarah McCammon - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes... |
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Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley
Brent Underwood - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more - a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams.. The siren song of Cerro Gordo, a desolate ghost town perched high above Death... |
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The Right Kind of White: A Memoir
Garrett Bucks - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory memoir that earnestly reckons with whiteness.. As the product of progressive parents and a liberal upbringing, Garrett Bucks prided himself on the pursuit of being a "good white person." The kind of white person who treats their privilege as a responsibility and not a burden;... |
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In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
Jonna Mendez - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War. Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife" performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband,... |
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The World War I Book (DK Big Ideas)
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies, and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars.". Combining authoritative, exciting text and bold images, The World War I Book explores the historical background of the war,... |
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The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America
Michael J. Graetz - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How the antitax fringe went mainstream - and now threatens America's future. The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards - and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to pay for living in a society of shared prosperity. Then in 1978... |
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