Random House, July 2019. Hardcover. From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children's experiences in World War II across Russia--in the vein of The Unwomanly Face of War and Secondhand Time For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century... More about Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
Plume, June 2019. Paper Back. Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory's million-copy-plus bestselling memoir--now in trade paperback for the first time. "Powerful and ugly and beautiful...a moving story of a man who deeply wants a world without malice and hate and is doing something about it."--The New York Times..... More about Nigger: An Autobiography
Doubleday, February 2019. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Orwell Prize "A masterful history of the Troubles. . . Extraordinary. . .As in the most ingenious crime stories, Keefe unveils a revelation -- lying, so to speak, in plain sight."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR From award-winning New Yorker staff writer... More about Say Nothing
Vintage, December 1980. Trade Paperback. A landmark study of Habsburg Vienna in the late 19th and 20th centuries by one of the truly original scholars of our time. Photos included. More about Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Vintage
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2003. Trade Paperback. Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums;... More about Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
Delta, 1964. Paper Back. More about The Fire Next Time
Penguin USA, September 1994. Trade Paperback. The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove - a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children... More about Bluest Eye
New American Library, October 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. More about Song of Solomon
Liveright, May 2018. Paper Back. In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like... More about The Color of Law
