| William Knoedelseder Bitter Brew tells the astonishing story of how five generations of men took a bankrupt brewery and turned it into an international colossus, Anheuser-Busch. Knoedelseder also tells a broader story of American progress and decline over the last 150 years. Read More... |
Alex Heard In 1945, Willie McGee, a young African-American man from Laurel, Mississippi, was sentenced to death for allegedly raping Willette Hawkins, a white housewife. This is his unforgettable story that evokes the bitter conflict between black and white, and north and south in America. Read More... |
Amity Shlaes Respected economic commentator Shlaes offers a fresh new interpretation of a crucial yet widely misunderstood moment in American history—the Great Depression. Shlaes shows how government mismanagement of the late 1920s and 1930s hurt the economy. Read More... |
Mitchell Zuckoff The author of the smash New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La delivers a nonstop, gripping true story of survival that moves between World War II and today; an astonishing account of endurance, bravery, ingenuity, and honor set in the vast Arctic wilderness. Read More... |
Tara Conklin A stunning debut novel that intertwines the story of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia with that of an ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York, and in so doing asks questions of justice, love and family. Read More... |
Paula J. Giddings The 2009 BCALA award winner for Nonfiction, this is the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells, a crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight against segregation and lynching, and the first "modern" black woman in the nation's history. Read More... |
Harold Holzer A new book—and companion to the Steven Spielberg film—tracing how Abraham Lincoln came to view slavery and end it. The book also includes thirty historical photographs, a chronology, a historical cast of characters, and texts of selected Lincoln writings. Read More... |
Mitchell Zuckoff The untold story of an extraordinary mission to rescue male and female survivors of a U.S. military plane crash in an isolated corner of the South Pacific, and the ancient indigenous tribe members that aided those stranded in the ground in this "Shangri-la." Read More... |
Edith H. Beer A riveting new chapter in the history of the Holocaust - the memoir of an Austrian Jewish woman who forged her identity and married a Nazi in order to survive the war years in plain sight in Nazi Germany. Read More... |
Irmgard A. Hunt Born in 1934, Irmgard Hunt grew up near Hitler’s Alpine retreat. In this candid and fascinating memoir she offers an intimate first-person perspective on this tumultuous era in modern history – witnessed through the eyes of a child. Read More... |
Sean Parnell In this vivid account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan, Captain Sean Parnell recounts an action-packed, and highly emotional true story of triumph, tragedy, and the extraordinary bonds forged in battle. Read More... |
T.J. English Through the stories of three desperate men - an innocent man wrongly accused of murder, a corrupt cop, and a militant Black Panther - T.J. English tells the story of race, violence, and urban chaos in 1960s New York City. Read More... |
ISBN: 9780061650710 Price: $15.99 The riveting and little-known story of 230 French women who were arrested for their participation in the Resistance during World War II, but whose friendships enabled them to navigate the hell of Auschwitz. Read More... |
Andrew Blum In this digital age, we are all connected. But connected to what? Blum takes readers on a journey to show that the internet is as fixed in real, physical places as any telephone ever was. Read More... |
ISBN: 9780060898984 Price: $16.99 The story of two brave women catapulted to fame by the War on Terror, offering a compelling look at the link between Muslim women's rights, Islamic opposition to the West, and a radical jihadist movement. Read More... |
Dolen Perkins-Valdez The 2011 BCALA award winner for First Novel, Wench explores the moral complexities of slavery as it tells the startling story of four women who find friendship and possibly salvation at a resort for slaveholders and their black, enslaved mistresses. Read More... |
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