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The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
Sally Denton - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection "The Colony is one of the most gripping and disturbing true stories I've ever come across." -- Douglas Preston An investigation into the November, 2019 killings of nine women and children in Northern Mexico -- an event that drew... |
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O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Mark Clague - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of America's national anthem and an examination of its powerful meaning today.Most Americans learn the tale in elementary school: During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key witnessed the daylong bombardment of Baltimore's Fort McHenry by British navy ships;... |
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Myanmar (Cultures of the World (Fourth Edition)(R))
Christine Poolos - Cavendish Square Publishing
Format: Library Binding
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The history of Myanmar is one defined by change. The names of its cities have changed over time, and even the name of the nation itself has changed from Burma to Myanmar! Readers trace these changes through updated main text that covers both historical and current events in detail. In addition,... |
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Snake Eyes: Murder in A Southern Town
Bitty Martin - Prometheus
Format: Hardcover
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By 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn't your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-state gamblers, flim-flam men, and high rollers to its racetracks, clubs, and bordellos.... |
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Feminism or Death: How the Women's Movement Can Save the Planet
Francoise d'Eaubonne - Verso
Format: Paperback
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The passionately argued, incendiary French feminist work that first defined "eco-feminism" - now available for the first time in English Originally published in French in 1974, radical feminist Francoise d'Eaubonne surveyed women's status around the globe and argued that... |
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Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
Craig McNamara - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022"Offering a complex, introspective look at how his relationship with his father turned into "a mixture of love and rage," the author sheds light on an entire generation's disillusionment with their forebears and reaches... |
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Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
Jeff Nussbaum - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating insight into notable speeches that were never delivered, showing what could have been if history had gone down a different path For almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These "second speeches" provide alternative histories of what... |
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Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
Chris Lockhart - Hanover Square Press; Original edition
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever altered by the mysterious murder of a fellow street child.Based on years of investigative reporting... |
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