Chronological Period/1980's
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Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir
$16.95 Read moreIn this eye-opening memoir, Lisa Crystal Carver recalls her extraordinary youth and charts the late-80s, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape. She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in … [more below]
- Author: Carver, Lisa Crystal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1932360948
- Language: English
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
$15.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn–then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage–set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hu… [more below]
- Author: Kirn, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490222
- Language: English
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A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century
$29.99 Add to cartEven as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two… [more below]
- Author: Kengor, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1610171527
- Language: English
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A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity: The Fight to Bring Lolita Home
$21.99 Add to cartOn August 8, 1970, the Southern Resident orcas of Puget Sound were herded into Penn Cove on Whidbey Island by explosives, spotter planes and speedboats in a coordinated effort to capture seven young w… [more below]
- Author: Pollard, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140376
- Language: English
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Kim Jong-Il Production
$28.99 Add to cartAn Amazon Best of The Year Nonfiction Selection
Library Journal Top Ten Book of the Year The Extraordinary True Story of Kim Jong-Il’s kidnapping of the golden couple of South Korean Cinema, The Movi- Author: Fischer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1250054273
- Language: English
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Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
$32.57 Add to cartFew philosophers have had as strong an influence on the way we think about power and knowledge as Michel Foucault (1926-1984). His work has influenced the teaching of any number of disciplines and rem
- Series: Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 1565844343
- Language: English
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Unbeatable: Notre Dame’s 1988 Championship and the Last Great Col
$24.00 Add to cartPerhaps the best undefeated team in the history of college football–Unbeatable presents the dramatic true story of the 1988 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their incredible unbeaten season.
Unbeatable i- Author: Barca, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 1250048656
- Language: English
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
$19.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1998 and a best seller in its hardcover and paperback publications, Gary Kinder’s Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a … [more below]
- Author: Kinder, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 20 2009
- ISBN10: 080214425X
- Language: English
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Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
$17.95 Add to cart- Author: Nathan, Debbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 16 2001
- ISBN10: 0595189555
- Language: English
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The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966
$27.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller about West Point’s Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson.
“A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical recon- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 080509122X
- Language: English
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America’s first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical I… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0802143032
- Language: English
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Gainesville Punk: A History of Bands & Music
$21.99 Add to cartKnown for The Fest, Less Than Jake and Hot Water Music, Gainesville became a creative hub in the 1980s and ’90s for many of punk rock’s greats.
Whether playing at the Hardback or wild house parties, ea
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Walker, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1626197679
- Language: English
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Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun
$19.00 Read moreThe Glock pistol is America’s Gun. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists and coveted by cops and crooks alike. Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, the pistol arrived in America at a fortuitous time.
- Author: Barrett, Paul M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0307719952
- Language: English
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The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain
$21.99 Add to cartThe Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded, working-class tradition to a sport at the heart of popular cultu… [more below]
- Author: Goldblatt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1568585160
- Language: English
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Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War
$21.95 Add to cartFrom the author of the Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated Argo, a true-life thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War, which unveils the life of an American spy from the inside and dramat… [more below]
- Author: Mendez, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0743428536
- Language: English
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3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop’s Multibillion-Dollar Rise
$29.00 Add to cartTracing the careers of hip-hop’s three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons: Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-Z.
Being- Author: Greenburg, Zack O’Malley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0316316539
- Language: English
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The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings
$24.00 Add to cartInternationally recognized as a major publishing event, The Courage to Stand Alone is a collection of prison writings from the world’s most famous political prisoner. Wei Jingsheng, who has spent near… [more below]
- Author: Jingsheng, Wei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140275355
- Language: English
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Scream at the Sky: Five Texas Murders and One Man’s Crusade for Justice
$23.99 Add to cartAn unsolved murder spree that left a town frozen in fear…
In rural Texas, just before Christmas in 1984, a young nurse was found raped and murdered in her Wichita Falls home. Within weeks, a second w- Author: Stowers, Carlton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1250001692
- Language: English
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Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
$25.00 Add to cartA dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller
This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. histo
- Author: Douglas, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0470325151
- Language: English
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Peacekeepers at War: Beirut 1983–The Marine Commander Tells His Story
$36.95 Add to cartOn October 23, 1983, nearly simultaneous suicide truck bombings killed 241 U.S. peacekeepers in their barracks at the Beirut International Airport (BIA) and 58 French paratroopers at their headquarter… [more below]
- Author: Geraghty, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1597974250
- Language: English
