Chronological Period/21st Century
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Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine
$19.99 Add to cartJournalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romance-Conti, Burgundy’s finest and most expensive wine.
In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor- Author: Potter, Maximillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1455516090
- Language: English
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The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesu
$12.99 Add to cartThey were held in brutal captivity–and managed to make it out alive.
The Lost Girls are Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus–three innocent young women who were kid
This is their story.- Author: Glatt, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1250092116
- Language: English
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No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas
$27.99 Add to cartFinalist: Lambda Literary Award for LBGTQ Nonfiction
Winner: Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
A Kansas Notable Book
Far from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas stands a
- Author: Janovy, C. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: March 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0700628347
- Language: English
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A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism
$17.95 Add to cartThe American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geop
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0231188498
- Language: English
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The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems
$19.99 Add to cart“No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”
—Atlantic MonthlyThe National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With
- Author: Hass, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0061923907
- Language: English
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Andy Griffith’s Manteo: His Real Mayberry
$41.99 Add to cartLearn about the real life of beloved actor Andy Griffith.
The world loves Sheriff Andy Taylor. Yet the actor who played him was intensely private. Here, for the first time, is the real Andy Griffith, h
- Author: Railey, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252086
- Language: English
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To Raise a Boy: Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood
$18.00 Add to cart“To Raise a Boy is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking view of the world that we have created for boys, and a call for change.” –Peg Tyre, author of the New York Times bestseller The Trouble with Boy… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1982128097
- Language: English
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The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public failure and p… [more below]
- Author: Douthat, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1476785252
- Language: English
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
$19.99 Add to cartA thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power.
When the Cold War- Author: Bacevich, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1250787637
- Language: English
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The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, “richly detailed” story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations (Margot L… [more below]
- Author: Holt, Nathalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0316439142
- Language: English
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Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words, 1991-2002
$17.95 Add to cartThe chilling autobiography of Aileen Wuornos, the notorious female serial killer who was the subject of an Investigation Discovery special and the Oscar-winning film starring Charlize Theron, Monster … [more below]
- Author: Wuornos, Aileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1593762909
- Language: English
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Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
$20.00 Add to cartThe raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to powe… [more below]
- Author: Dawisha, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1476795207
- Language: English
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God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
$23.99 Add to cartA deeply reported, New York Times bestselling exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican–the world’s biggest, most powerful religious institution–from an accl… [more below]
- Author: Posner, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1416576592
- Language: English
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The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the U.S. Marine Corps.
When the- Author: Whittle, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 1416562966
- Language: English
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Higher Loyalty
$23.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller now in paperback with new material
In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his- Author: Comey, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1250192471
- Language: English
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Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success
$18.99 Add to cartForbes, Best Business Books of 2022
The facts, not the fiction, of America’s immigration experience Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly m
Behavioral Scientist, Notable Books of 2022- Author: Abramitzky, Ran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1541797841
- Language: English
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon
$20.00 Add to cartA top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare–one in which a digital attack can… [more below]
- Author: Zetter, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0770436196
- Language: English
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Call Me Ted
$24.99 Add to cart“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!”
These words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted Turner’s remarkable life, but they only begin to explain the colorful, energetic, and uniq- Author: Turner, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0446582034
- Language: English
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
$19.99 Add to cartThe riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.
In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocitie- Author: Holt, Nathalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0316338907
- Language: English
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Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy Volume 59
$31.18 Add to cartThe radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood.
“When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.”–- Series: American Crossroads
- Author: S?nchez, George J
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 520391640
- Language: English
