Chronological Period/21st Century
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Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River
$21.95 Add to cartScience Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management–and perils in the mismanagement–of water in the western United States. It seems deceptively simple: even when clear evi… [more below]
- Author: Kuhn, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0816543232
- Language: English
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Journey of the Midnight Sun
$21.95 Read moreThis is the true story of the journey of the Midnight Sun Mosque.
In 2010 a Winnipeg-based charity raised funds to build and ship a mosque to Inuvik, one of the most northern towns in Canada’s Arctic.
- Author: Afzal, Shazia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1459827600
- Language: English
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Second Star: And Other Reasons for Lingering
$18.00 Read moreA #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life’s smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windows
A still life- Author: Delerm, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861547
- Language: English
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We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
$10.99 Read moreThis young adult adaptation of the New York Times bestselling White Rage is essential antiracist reading for teens.
An NAACP Image Award finalist
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A NYPL Best Book f- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 154760252X
- Language: English
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Devil House
$28.00 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“It’s never quite the book you think it is. It’s better.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times
From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer- Author: Darnielle, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0374212236
- Language: English
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Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
$17.99 Read more“Twilight in Hazard paints a more nuanced portrait of Appalachia than Vance did…[Maimon] eviscerates Vance’s bestseller with stiletto precision.” –Associated Press
From investigative reporter and P… [more below]- Author: Maimon, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1612199976
- Language: English
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Yoga
$28.00 Read moreNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The Guardian
This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. Emmanuel Carr鑽e is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully- Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0374604940
- Language: English
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Worm: The First Digital World War
$16.00 Add to cartThe Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008 and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million computers in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies, and critical government … [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0802145949
- Language: English
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Dolly Parton
$8.99 Read moreIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Dolly Parton, the singer-songwriter and businesswoman.
Little Dolly- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #28
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0711283877
- Language: English
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Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
$34.95 Add to cartThis “breath-taking trip through the union-organizing scene of America in the 21st century” reveals the victories and unconventional strategies of a renowned–and notorious–militant union organizer (… [more below]
- Author: McAlevey, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1781683158
- Language: English
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Dogs of Summer
$23.00 Read more“[A] firecracker of a debut.”
“Andrea Abreu’s debut novel about two girls in the summer heat of Tenerife is perfect for these dog days.”
—The New York Times
—Shreya Chattopadhyay, The New York Times B- Author: Abreu, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 166260159X
- Language: English
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5,000 Days of War: The Firsthand Account of an Afghan Special Forces Operator
$29.99 Read moreYa marg Ya zindagi.
Life or death. Born to poverty and facing starvation in his remote Afghan village, eighteen-year-old Yousuf Sediq travels across Taliban territory to apply for a job as an interp- Author: Sediq, Yousuf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1955026432
- Language: English
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The Little Liar
$15.99 Read moreThis sharp, compelling legal drama from an acclaimed French journalist explores why a teenage victim lied about her rape and how the disadvantaged become scapegoats.
At 15, Lisa was a typical teenager- Author: Robert-Diard, Pascale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 163542416X
- Language: English
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The Sun Does Shine: An Innocent Man, a Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice
$19.99 Read moreA Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times, now adapted for younger readers, with a revise- Author: Hinton, Anthony Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1250817366
- Language: English
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The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
$18.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“A revealing look at life inside the White House. . . it’s Downton Abbey for the White House staff.”— The Today Show
A remarkable history with elements of both In the Presi
- Author: Brower, Kate Andersen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0062305204
- Language: English
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The Second World War
$150.00 Read moreWinston S. Churchill’s The Second World War is the definitive, Nobel Prize-winning history of World War II, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of … [more below]
- Series: Second World War
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 4736
- Publish Date: May 09 1986
- ISBN10: 039541685X
- Language: English
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A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the Mexican Drug War
$15.95 Read moreThe term “Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.
But this diverts attention from the U.S. role- Author: Boullosa, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1944869123
- Language: English
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The Dark Dark: Stories
$18.00 Read moreA Best Book of the Year: NPR, Vogue, The Huffington Post, The Chicago Review of Books, The National Post, Electric Literature, Kirkus
“Wields such a subtle and alien power . . . Wonderfully spooky.” –- Author: Hunt, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0374282137
- Language: English
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Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, comes the story of a unique team of warriors — women who could not be Army Rangers and Navy SEALS
- Author: Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0062333828
- Language: English
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Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
$18.95 Read moreNAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tensi- Author: Young, Rj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1640096167
- Language: English
