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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

Nicholas D. Kristof - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.With...
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Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

Fritzsche, Peter - BASIC BOOKS


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In Trump We Trust: How He Outsmarted the Politicians, the "Elites," and the Media

Ann Coulter - Sentinel
Format: Print book

Donald Trump isn't a politician -- he's a one man wrecking ball against our dysfunctional and corrupt establishment. Now Ann Coulter, with her unique insight, candor, and sense of humor, makes the definitive case for why we should all join his revolution. The three biggest news stories...
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Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long Walk

Edison Eskeets - University of New Mexico Press
Format: Hardcover

The Navajo tribe, the Din, are the largest tribe in the United States and live across the American Southwest. But over a century ago, they were nearly wiped out by the Long Walk, a forced removal of most of the Din people to a military-controlled reservation in New Mexico. The summer of 2018...
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Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away with It

Elie Honig - Harper
Format: Hardcover

CNN senior legal analyst and nationally bestselling author Elie Honig explores America's two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the powerful - including, most notoriously, Donald Trump - manipulate the legal system to escape justice and get away with vast...
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

Margaret Atwood - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

* Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? * How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? * How can we live on our planet? * Is it true? And is it fair? * What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious...
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The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK

JOHN R BOHRER - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966, with style and substance that has shaped American politics ever since. On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother,...
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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last 150 years of American history-from the post-Reconstruction...
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In a riveting book with powerful resonance today, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet affirming story of his family's ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication.Elliott...
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Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation

Candace Owens - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

Political activist and social media star Candace Owens explains all the reasons how the Democratic Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right. What do you have to lose? This question, posed by then-presidential candidate...
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