Select Reads | Reading House

SelectReads News


	History

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

Katie Rogers - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden - from a White House correspondent for The New York Times. "A fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least...

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World?and How You Can, Too

Ijeoma Oluo - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide...

The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

Daniel de Visé - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture"They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John...

LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

Marie Arana - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping yet personal overview of theLatino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority.. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic...

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock MD - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"Legacy is both a compelling memoir and an edifying analysis of the inequities in the way we deliver healthcare in America. Uché Blackstock is a force of nature." - Abraham Verghese, MD, New York Times-bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone. The rousing,...

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton - Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America's mental healthcare system. . On a cold...

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Rebecca Boyle - ?Random House
Format: Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the Artemis launches--from an acclaimed Scientific American and Atlantic contributorFar from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the key to some of science's central questions,...

The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

Simon Shuster - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides.

The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

Hannah Durkin - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors - the last documented...

Subscribe

Previous Editions

Information

About Us

Help