Chronological Period/21st Century
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Murder Over a Girl
$22.00 Add to cartIn February 2008, during first period English class at a junior high school in Oxnard, California, blue-eyed and blond fourteen-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed fifteen-year-old Larry King,
- Author: Corbett, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118158
- Language: English
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War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
$20.99 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced young journalists” (The New York Times)–the first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppres- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1668013738
- Language: English
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Making a Night Stalker
$24.99 Add to cartDavid Burnett takes readers into a unique world of the 160th Special Operations Aviation regiment. His journey starts in a conventional Army unit where he doesn’t feel fulfilled in his duties and obli
- Author: Burnett, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0999856529
- Language: English
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Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
$29.95 Read moreBreach of Peace is a photo-history told in images old and new. The book includes the mug shots of all 329 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, along with contemporary portraits of 99 Rider… [more below]
- Author: Etheridge, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0826521908
- Language: English
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
$20.00 Add to cartIn this first collection of interviews since the
Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating,
bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 05 2005
- ISBN10: 080507967X
- Language: English
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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
$17.00 Add to cartBased on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history. Three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a v… [more below]
- Author: Zucchino, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 345
- Publish Date: November 29 2004
- ISBN10: 080214179X
- Language: English
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Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly
$11.65 Read moreSeventeen-year-old Arlo Santiago lives for the “Drone Zone”–that free, joyful, anti-gravity feeling. He achieves the Zone with risky motorcycle stunts on New Mexico roads, or while playing his favori
- Author: Wesselhoeft, Conrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0544542614
- Language: English
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700 Sundays
$19.99 Add to cartTo support his family, Billy Crystal’s father, Jack, worked two jobs, having only one day a week to spend with his family. Based on Crystal’s one-man Broadway show of the same name, “700 Sundays”–ref… [more below]
- Author: Crystal, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0446698512
- Language: English
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader
$18.00 Read moreThe #1 New York Times bestselling biography of how Steve Jobs became the most visionary CEO in history.
Becoming Steve Jobs breaks down the conventional, one-dimensional view of Steve Jobs that he wa… [more below]- Author: Schlender, Brent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0385347421
- Language: English
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The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America’s Energy Future
$20.00 Add to cartIt’s Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best.
Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy and natural-resource wars,- Author: Pickens, T. Boone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307396010
- Language: English
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India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
$16.95 Add to cartAccording to current projections, India will overtake China to become the most populous country on Earth by 2050. Its 1.6 billion people will live in the world’s second-largest economy, after China bu… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Kamdar, Mira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199973598
- Language: English
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Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
$18.99 Add to cart“Reads like a nail-biting thriller.” — Library Journal, starred review
A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood–the deadliest flood in U.S. history–from NBC h
- Author: Roker, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062445537
- Language: English
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The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience
$26.95 Add to cartIn 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa’s longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as “Lost Boys,” who had been orphaned or othe
- Author: Bixler, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0820328839
- Language: English
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The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
$19.99 Add to cartA noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today’s social justice struggles
Speaking to his supporters- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0465044166
- Language: English
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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
$19.00 Add to cartAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides.
Democracy see- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849306
- Language: English
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Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
$29.00 Add to cart“Amazing book! And will be an eye-opener for many.” -Margaret Atwood
This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guant?amo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unl
- Author: Adayfi, Mansoor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0306923866
- Language: English
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Jane Goodall: A Biography
$17.99 Add to cartRecent polls identify Jane Goodall to be the most recognizable living scientist in the Western world. Her work with chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania has been renowned as one of the … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591026113
- Language: English
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
$31.65 Read moreA New York Times bestseller
In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America’s new covert wars. The f
Now also an Oscar-nominated documentary- Author: Scahill, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1568589549
- Language: English
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All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
$21.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs that surround it, and the many moods of modern Russia that reads like a real House of Cards(Lev Lurie).
All th- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1568588178
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Detroit
$27.95 Add to cartRecent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city’s cuts to public services, w… [more below]
- Author: Jay, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1478008342
- Language: English
