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The Bondwoman's Narrative

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

About the Author Henry Louis Gates, Jr., lives in Massachusetts and is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker.

Smyrna, September 1922: The American Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide

Lou Ureneck

Review “Ureneck’s narrative is intense and vivid.” — Philadelphia Inquirer “The Great Fire reads like a...

Two Winters in a Tipi: My Search For The Soul Of The Forest

Mark Warren

One of the most perfectly and colorfully written books I've ever laid hands on." ~Lee Silva, author of Wyatt Earp: A...

Because We Say So (City Lights Open Media)

Noam Chomsky

The essays are scathing and Chomsky brilliant, as a public intellectual engaged in a concerted and committed campaign...

On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake

Sarah Chayes

Both right and left revile 'the swamp,' but Sarah Chayes is the first to provide a compelling--to say nothing of...

Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit

Parker J. Palmer

He bravely takes on the current political climate, and this book provides therapy for the American body politic. His...

South of Forgiveness: A True Story of Rape and Responsibility

Thordis Elva

I like her thinking; she wanted to burden him the way he burdened her. Not many people could do that . . . The fact...

Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

Kenji Yoshino

“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about...

How To Raise A Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men

Michael Reichert

“No one writes more powerfully about how much boys need loving relationships to become healthy men. With the training...

Cat's Cradle: A Novel

Kurt Vonnegut

“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!” — Thexa0New York Times “[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and...

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The...

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victor

Ben Macintyre

Here, finally, is the complete story with its full cast of characters (not a dull one among them), pure cathnip to fans...

On the House: A Washington Memoir

John Boehner

JOHN BOEHNER served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011-2015. A member of the Republican...

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

a canny work of literature... "Notes" is still a work of modern literature; it still can kick' The New Yorker --The New...

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

David Brooks

Review Praise for David Brooks “David Brooks’s gift—as he might put it in his swift, engaging way—is for making...

3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement,and Escape

Natascha Kampusch

Natascha Kampusch was born on February 17th, 1988, in Vienna. At the age of ten, she became victim to what proved to be...

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

David McRaney

Every chapter is a welcome reminder that you are not so smart-yet you're never made to feel dumb. You Are Not So Smart...

As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text

William Faulkner

Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of...

Critical Race Theory (Third Edition): An Introduction (Critical America Book 20)

Richard Delgado

Comprehensive and insightful, Critical Race Theory, Third Edition is a must read for those wondering 'why the fuss?'...

White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing

Gail Lukasik

“Lukasik takes us inside her family story, revealing that her own mother chose to live as a white woman. Lukasik,...

63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read

Jesse Ventura

Jesse Ventura is the former governor of Minnesota and author of four national bestsellers, including 63 Documents the...

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Julia Alvarez

From School Library Journal YA-- This sensitive story of four sisters who must adjust to life in America after having...

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.)

Lucette Matalon Lagnado

“Beautifully written.... A great personalized telling of Egypt’s complicated history in the last half of the 20th...

Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell

John L. Casey

“The history of science is filled with examples of individuals with new ideas being met by the current scientific...