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2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
Eric Klinenberg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg. "A gripping, deeply moving account of a signal year in modern history, told through... |
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
Hamilton Nolan - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized... |
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
Shannon Reed - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist. We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass... |
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Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
Michele Norris - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.. The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Story. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging... |
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Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
Benjamin Herold - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools. Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son.... |
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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
David Bellos - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do.Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very... |
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Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time
Robert Downey Jr - Blackstone Publishing Inc
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLERA Publishers Weekly Pick #1 New Release Barnes & Noble PickIn Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints--one... |
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Renters' Rights
Janet Portman Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Sooner or later it will happen ... The landlord ignores your repair requests. Your roommates are once again late with their share of the rent. Your upstairs neighbors party all the time. The landlord won't return your security deposit. How can you deal with these problems - and others... |
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