Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in...
Jill LeovyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a rele...
The Coddling of the American Mind: Ho...
Greg LukianoffA finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book Bloomberg Best Book of 2018The New York Times bestseller!Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few ...
Returning to the Lakota Way: Old Valu...
Joseph M. MarshallIn Returning to the Lakota Way, prolific author Joseph Marshall presents the follow-up to his highly regarded book The Lakota Way. Using beautiful storytelling to relay traditional tales passed down through the generations, M...
#1 New York Times BestsellerOprah's Book Club 2016 SelectionA memoir of marriage and self-discovery by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are all born to be warriors: st...
Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy...
Anna MerlanA riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyondAmerican society has always been fertile ground for consp...
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary S...
Caroline MooreheadIn January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance weresent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied theircountry. This is their story, told in full for the first time—a searing andunforgettable chronicle of ter...
Voices in the Stones: Life Lessons fr...
Kent Nerburn“Do not begrudge the white man his presence on this land. Though he doesn’t know it yet, he has come here to learn from us.”— A Shoshone elderThe genius of the Native Americans has always been their profound spirituality and t...
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Se...
Jenny NordbergAn investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girlIn Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and t...
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Ri...
Anne Helen Petersen**One of NPR’s Best Books of 2017** “Petersen's gloriously bumptious, brash ode to nonconforming women suits the needs of this dark moment. Her careful examination of how we eviscerate the women who confound or threaten is cruci...
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women ...
Lynn PovichThe inspiration for the original television seriesIt was the 1960sa time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the Help Wanted” ads were segregated by gender and the Mad Men” office...
Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking ...
Eyal Press"A fascinating study in the better angels of our nature."—George Packer, The New Yorker A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice History has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but what about its flip si...
Ghost Soldiers of Gettysburg: Searchi...
Jack RothDiscover the paranormal legacy of one of America's most celebrated historical sites. Based on scores of investigations conducted at the battlefield, Ghost Soldiers of Gettysburg presents a wealth of fascinating Civil War history and c...
Celtic Mythology: The Nature and Infl...
Ward RutherfordThis is a lively and absorbing account of the world of Celtic myth and the role it has played in the development of western culture. Included here are:
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Wa...
Mychal Denzel SmithNew York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceHow do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon M...
The Federal Reserve Conspiracy
Antony C. SuttonAnother fine and extremely well researched work by Antony C. Sutton. An expose' of the people and forces behind the takeover of the US economy by the Federal Reserve system, on behalf of the oligarchs. A must for anyone interested in...
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison...
Heather Ann ThompsonWINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE 2017 BANCROFT PRIZENATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK FOR 2016 * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE BO...
Just Like Us: The True Story of Four ...
Helen ThorpeJust Like Us tells the story of four high school students whose parents entered this country illegally from Mexico. We meet the girls on the eve of their senior prom in Denver, Colorado. All four of the girls have grown up in the Unit...
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election Tha...
Rebecca TraisterBig Girls Don't Cry offers a startling appraisal of the 2008 presidential campaign and brilliantly demonstrates that it was transformative for American women and for the nation. The campaign for the presidency reopened some of the mos...
Everything You Wanted to Know about I...
Anton Treuer"I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.' I took a friend to see Dances with...
Dirty Kids: On the Road with Tramps, ...
Chris Urquhart"An illuminating and memorable twenty-first-century journey. From this angle, Burning Man looks bourgeois." —Ted Conover, author of Newjack and The Routes of ManAt age twenty-two, writer Chris Urquhart left a life of middl...
With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Mattersaffirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America?s ongoing racial debate.Cornel West is at the fo...
Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Bla...
Walter E. WilliamsWalter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best...
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. "A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight...
A Little F'd Up: Why Feminism Is Not ...
Julie ZeilingerYoung women today have a bad reputation, and for good reason: They're sexting their classmates, they spend more time on FaceBook than they do in class, and their appetite for material possessions and reality TV is matched only by thei...
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matte...
Atul GawandeNamed a Best Book of the Year byThe Washington Post Apple iBooks The New York Times Book Review NPR Amazon Chicago TribuneMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from ha...
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dar...
Benjamin Lorr"A deeply curious and evenhanded report on our national appetites." The New York Times In the tradition ofFast Food NationandThe Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart o...