21st Century
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Pieces Falling: Navigating 9/11 with Faith, Family, and the FDNY
$16.99 Add to cartAs a wife and mom, church volunteer, and small business owner, Ann Van Hine prided herself on being in control of her life.
Until 9/11.
Pieces Falling is Ann’s story of navigating the very personal loss
- Author: Van Hine, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1955043221
- Language: English
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The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas
$30.00 Add to cartEvery Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 prov
- Author: Kiel, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 150363065X
- Language: English
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Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach
$24.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling history of the glamour and debauchery of the ultra-wealthy Palm Beach community–from The Breakers to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.
For more than a hundred years, Palm Beach has- Author: Leamer, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1401310117
- Language: English
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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
$31.18 Add to cartThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.
In License to Travel, Patr- Author: Bixby, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 520375858
- Language: English
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This Isn’t Happening: Radiohead’s Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century
$17.99 Add to cartTHE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD’S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A. In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris withou… [more below]
- Author: Hyden, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0306845679
- Language: English
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Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working with Donald Trump Reveals about Him
$28.00 Read moreBarbara A. Res worked directly with Donald Trump for eighteen years on some of his biggest projects and had nearly unlimited access to him. Trump selected Res to be in charge of construction of Trump … [more below]
- Author: Res, Barbara a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 23 2020
- ISBN10: 1631683047
- Language: English
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Invasion of Laos, 1971: Lam Son 719
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1971, while U.S. ground forces were prohibited from crossing the Laotian border, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of war
- Author: Sander, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: March 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0806148403
- Language: English
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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
$19.99 Add to cartA “superb” and “ambitious” (New York Times) intellectual and political history of the last century of American conservatism
When most people think of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reaga- Author: Continetti, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600517
- Language: English
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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
$18.99 Add to cartWith a new foreword by the author–Chris Rose’s New York Times bestselling collection: “A gripping book about life’s challenges in post-Katrina New Orleans…packed with heart, honesty, and wit” (New … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1501125370
- Language: English
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Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11
$19.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, the riveting story of the response of the heroic pilots and air traffic controllers who found themselves on the front lines of an undeclared war on September 11, 2001.
In this grippi- Author: Spencer, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1416559264
- Language: English
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
$37.50 Add to cartIn this fast-paced information age, how can Americans know what’s really important and what’s just a passing fashion? Now more than ever, we need a source that concisely sums up the knowledge that mat… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, E. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 03 2002
- ISBN10: 618226478
- Language: English
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK
Selected by New York Times‘ critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book
A Washington Post Best Political- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534608
- Language: English
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
$27.95 Add to cartThe pandemic lockdown of 2020 launched an unprecedented urban experiment. Traffic disappeared from the streets. Times Square fell silent. And half a million residents fled the most crowded city in Ame
- Author: Moss, Jeremiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393868478
- Language: English
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Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from Trump’s Revenge
$19.99 Add to cartThe author behind the “eye-popping” (CNN) #1 New York Times bestseller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting the stage for “The Next Trump.”
Donald Trump will b- Author: Taylor, Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1668015994
- Language: English
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Memories of 9/11: Where We Were on September 11, 2001
$9.11 Add to cartAbout Memories of 9/11
The baby boomer generation always asked, “Where were you when Kennedy was shot?” The question now is: “Where were you when the towers fell on 9/11?” This book is an anthology of … [more below]
- Author: Walsh, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: September 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1088135048
- Language: English
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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
$17.99 Add to cartWith intrigue that rivals the best le Carr novels, Russians Among Us tells the explosive story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West—from the end of the Cold War to th
- Author: Corera, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0062889427
- Language: English
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Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way
$18.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind.
“M
- Author: Maalouf, Amin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1642860751
- Language: English
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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
$19.95 Add to cartThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.
In License to Travel, Patr- Author: Bixby, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0520397894
- Language: English
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Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
$24.99 Add to cartThe author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful
- Author: Schulman, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0062859021
- Language: English
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We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism
$29.00 Read moreA gripping investigation into the nation’s most notorious far-right group, revealing how they created a new blueprint for extremism and turned American politics into a blood sport
After the 2016 elect- Author: Campbell, Andy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 0306827468
- Language: English
