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  • The Swamp

    The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

    “Brilliant.” —The Washington Post Book World * “Magnificent.” —The Palm Beach Post * “Rich in history yet urgently relevant to current events.” —The New RepublicThe Everglades i****n southern Florida were once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Last Honest Man

    The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy

    by James Risen ...
    In this “gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting” (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government.For decades now, America’s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Bananas

    How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

    by Peter Chapman ...
    A lively and insightful cultural history of the coveted yellow fruit, as well as a gripping narrative about the infamous rise and fall of the United Fruit Company.In this compelling history of the United Fruit Company, Financial Times writer Peter Chapman weaves a dramatic tale of big business, deceit, and violence, exploring the origins of arguably one of the most controversial global ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Wonderful Thing

    A History of Texas

    Series series The Texas Bookshelf
    2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Reclaiming the Discarded

    Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump

    In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Chicano Manifesto

    Chicano Manifesto appeared in 1971 as the first book written by a Chicano to give expression to the spirit of a cultural revolution. The text is largely biographical because much of the history recorded in its pages was actually observed by the author. Many persons and events depicted here were captured only because the author was there as the movement evolved.Perhaps the most disturbing truth ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Food of a Younger Land

    A portrait of American food from the lost WPA files

    Recommended by Chef José Andrés on The Drew Barrymore Show!A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt.Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together; before chain ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Listen, World!

    How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman

    *Winner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award*The first biography of Elsie Robinson, the most influential newspaper columnist you’ve never heard ofAt thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she’d lost it all. Reeling from a scandalous divorce in 1917, she had no means to support herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer and was willing to sacrifice everything for this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Great Awakening

    Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance

    In The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance, the most persecuted man on Earth, Alex Jones, gives you the good news about the failing plans of the globalists to control humanity.The expression “Get woke, go broke” has entered the common lexicon as we’ve seen company after company invoke the false gods of diversity, equity, and inclusion to their ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Ghosts in the Schoolyard

    Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

    by Eve L. Ewing ...
    “Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.”That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt.But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Greenback Planet

    How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It

    by H. W. Brands ...
    Series series Discovering America
    From the New York Times–bestselling historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, “[a] compact summation of our nation’s monetary history” (Shepherd Express).The world runs on the US dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely. But how did the greenback achieve this planetary dominance a mere ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Survive a Plague

    The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

    by David France ...
    One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the DecadeA definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Almost universally ignored, these men and women learned to become their own researchers, lobbyists, and drug smugglers, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Driven toward Madness

    The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio

    Series series New Approaches to Midwestern Studies
    Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has inspired Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Yet, her life has defied solid historical treatment. In Driven toward Madness, Nikki M. Taylor ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

    by David Grann ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE“A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Survivors of the Clotilda

    The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

    by Hannah Durkin ...
    Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors—the last documented survivors of any slave ship—whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways.The Clotilda, the last slave ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic

    Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly tracks the ancient, pagan, and continental ideas from which America’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fifth Sun

    A New History of the Aztecs

    In November 1519, Hernando Cort?s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were intrigued by the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $15.99 USD

  • The Search for Order, 1877-1920

    At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search for Order, 1877-1920, Robert H. Wiebe shows how, in subsequent years, during the Progressive Era of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Americans ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Great Disorder

    National Myth and the Battle for America

    As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two different countries, with wildly diverging views of why government exists and who counts as American. Their ideologies are grounded in different ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • When the Cheering Stopped

    The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson

    by Gene Smith ...
    The poignant true story of an American president struck by tragedy at the height of his glory.This New York Times bestseller vividly chronicles the stunning decline in Woodrow Wilson’s fortunes after World War I and draws back the curtain on one of the strangest episodes in the history of the American presidency.Author Gene Smith brilliantly captures the drama and excitement of Wilson’s efforts at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    by J. D. Vance ...
    THE#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO**"You will not read a more important book about America this year.**"—The Economist"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal**"Essential reading."—David Brooks,**New York TimesHillbilly Elegy is a passionate ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A People's History of the United States

    by Howard Zinn ...
    THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools—with its ... Read more

    $16.49 USD $14.49 USD

  • The Great Reset

    And the War for the World

    by Alex Jones ...
    In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, the most controversial man on earth Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet.If you really want to know what’s happening in the world, this is the one book you must read now. Alex Jones is the most censored man on the planet and you should ask ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Manhunt

    The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner

    Now an Apple TV+ Series“A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln’s killers that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish.”—Doris Kearns GoodwinThe murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history--the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry troops on a wild, 12-day chase from the streets of ... Read more

    $15.49 USD $13.49 USD