Chronological Period/21st Century
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Morning of Fire: America’s Epic First Journey Into the Pacific
$29.15 Read moreMorning of Fire by Scott Ridley is the thrilling story of 18th century American explorer and expeditioner John Kedrick as he journeyed for land and trade in the Pacific. Set against the backdrop of on
- Author: Ridley, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0061700193
- Language: English
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From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
$21.99 Add to cartFrom Warsaw with Love is the epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War, told by the award-winning author John Pomfret.
Spanning dec- Author: Pomfret, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250848806
- Language: English
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Cartography: Navigating a Year in Iraq
$19.95 Add to cartCartography describes Katherine Schifani’s time deployed in Iraq as a counterterrorism advisor with U.S. Special Forces in 2011. It is the story of one woman mapping the terra incognita of Iraq with q… [more below]
- Author: Schifani, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1640124500
- Language: English
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War by Other Means: A General in the Trump White House
$28.99 Read moreGeneral Keith Kellogg saw it all. The only national security advisor to work side by side with both President Trump and Vice President Pence, he was their confidant as they made their most momentous d… [more below]
- Author: Kellogg, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1684512468
- Language: English
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The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
$31.18 Add to cartThe rise of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who provided free masks in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March 2020, when the US- Author: Hong, Mai-Linh K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 520384008
- Language: English
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A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet
$18.00 Add to cartHow cats became the undisputed mascot of the internet.
The advertising slogan of the social news site Reddit is “Come for the cats. Stay for the empathy.” Journalists and their readers seem to need no
- Author: White, E. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1503604632
- Language: English
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Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It
$18.00 Read moreDisinformation is as old as humanity. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But the rise of social media has made disinformation even more pervasive a
- Author: Stengel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 23 2020
- ISBN10: 0802149421
- Language: English
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High Vistas:: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, Volume II, 1900-2009
$21.99 Add to cartHigh Vistas is the first anthology devoted to nature and descriptive writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, inclusive of the Tennessee side of the present day Great Smoky M… [more below]
- Series: Natural History
- Author: Ellison, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 18 2011
- ISBN10: 159629356X
- Language: English
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The Blood of Lambs: A Former Terrorist’s Memoir of Death and Redemption
$19.99 Add to cartIn his riveting memoir, Kamal Saleem reveals the story of his life as radical Islamic terrorist and how he finally came to renounce his murderous mission, embrace freedom, and warn America of the cont… [more below]
- Author: Saleem, Kamal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1501174290
- Language: English
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The Age of Bowie
$18.00 Add to cartAuthor and industry insider Paul Morley explores the musical and cultural legacies left behind by “The Man Who Fell to Earth.”Respected arts commentator and author Paul Morley, an artistic advisor to … [more below]
- Author: Morley, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1501151177
- Language: English
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24 Hours Inside the President’s Bunker: 9-11-01: The White House
$26.95 Add to cartAfter Maj. Robert J. Darling organizes President Bush’s trip to Florida on Sept. 10, 2001, he believes the next couple of days will be quiet. He has no idea that a war is about to begin. The next day,… [more below]
- Author: Darling Usmc (Ret), Lt Col Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 30 2010
- ISBN10: 1450244246
- Language: English
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From the Campfire to the Holodeck
$29.95 Add to cartHow to optimize educational spaces and teaching practices for more effective learning
Author David Thornburg, an award-winning futurist and educational consultant, maintains that in order to engage al
- Author: Thornburg, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 21 2013
- ISBN10: 1118633938
- Language: English
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Trust the Plan: The Rise of Qanon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Sommer, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0063114496
- Language: English
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Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor’s Story
$27.95 Add to cartFour hours. That was the amount of time between looking down the barrel of a gun and finding myself free along a silent highway lined by cotton fields. In the time period that seemed eternal, my uniqu… [more below]
- Author: Berk, Steven L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0896726932
- Language: English
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Confederate Statues and Memorialization
$21.95 Add to cartNine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hill. The headlines keep coming, and the debate rolls o
- Series: History in the Headlines
- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820355577
- Language: English
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Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
$36.95 Add to cartOn June 17, 2015, a white supremacist entered Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and sat with some of its parishioners during a Wednesday night Bible study session. An hour later, he be
- Author: Williams, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0820349577
- Language: English
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Mayor: The Best Job in Politics
$29.95 Add to cartIn 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia. From the time he was sworn in until he l
- Series: City in the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Nutter, Michael A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0812250028
- Language: English
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Everyone Counts: Could Participatory Budgeting Change Democracy?
$4.99 Add to cartThe Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the
- Series: Brown Democracy Medal
- Author: Lerner, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: October 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0801456657
- Language: English
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Heart of a Soldier
$22.95 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart comes the extraordinary story of American hero Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley security director and a veteran of Vietnam and the British colonial wars in Rho… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, James B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0743244591
- Language: English
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Lost Whale
$39.99 Add to cartThe heartbreaking and true story of a lonely orca named Luna who befriended humans in Nootka Sound, off the coast of Vancouver Island by Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm.
One summer in Nootka Sound- Author: Parfit, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 0312353642
- Language: English
