Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
University of Illinois Press, December 1990. Trade Paperback. More
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Beloved
Knopf, September 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--first published in 1987--brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in..... More
Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics)
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, September 1998. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. "Black Boy" is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming off..... More
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (Penguin American Library)
Penguin Books, September 1982. Reprint. Paper Back. The dialect, lore, and flavor of black life in the nineteenth-century South is portrayed as it appeared to Georgia-born Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus's "Legends of the Old Plantation." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic..... More
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
Hachette Books, June 2023. Hardcover. In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country--revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. Joseph McGill..... More
My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
Little, Brown Spark, June 2023. Hardcover. "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank. In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in..... More
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
Basic Books, May 2023. Hardcover. An essential new history of Central Europe,?the contested lands so often at the heart of world history? Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers..... More
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Little, Brown and Company, December 2022. Trade Paperback. This "important and timely" (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America--and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the..... More
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
Viking, June 2023. Hardcover. "Absolutely gripping... a perfectly splendid read--I highly, highly recommend it" -- Douglas Preston, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to..... More
Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War
Penguin Press, June 2023. Hardcover. A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914..... More
Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity
G.P. Putnam's Sons, June 2023. Hardcover. The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation--from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today--and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet. Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in..... More
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
Riverhead Books, June 2023. Paper Back. "An important part of American history told with a clear-eyed and forceful brilliance." --National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson "We Refuse to Forget reminds readers, on damn near every page, that we are collectively experiencing a brilliance we've seldom seen or imagined...We Refuse to..... More
Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
Gallery Books, May 2023. Hardcover. An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion. Camera..... More
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
Simon & Schuster, May 2023. Hardcover. The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection--from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin. Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the..... More
Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
St. Martin's Press, February 2023. Hardcover. An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. In..... More
Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Picador USA, April 2023. Paper Back. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our..... More
King: A Life
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2023. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post and National Indie Bestseller "Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig's book is worthy of its subject." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times (Book Review Editors' Choice) "[King is] infused with..... More
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000
Liveright, June 2023. Hardcover. With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification--and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany's evolution from..... More
American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2023. Hardcover. In 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson led them to set out in one of Ford's Model Ts to explore the Transcendentalist's New England, the trip would..... More
The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
Liveright, November 2022. Hardcover. Years before Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competing in the sensational transcontinental air race of 1919. The contest awakened Americans..... More
Staff Pick
Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
Random House, May 2023. Hardcover. A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa's Greenwood district, known as "Black Wall Street," that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification "The scope, the elegance, and the power of Victor Luckerson's tale is simply..... More
Slaves in the Family
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), February 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon, England, to Charleston, South Carolina, to take possession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and 20 slaves. Elias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted for six..... More
First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America
Hanover Square Press, June 2023. Hardcover. Award-winning historian Cassandra A. Good shows how the outspoken stepgrandchildren of George Washington played an overlooked but important role in the development of American society and politics from the Revolution to the Civil War.While it's widely known in America that George and Martha Washington..... More
Ancient Near East -- N275
W.W. Norton, January 1965. Reprint. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} Third Revised Edition. Clean & sound. [312 pages]. More
The Hot Zone
Random House, 1994-09-01. First Edition. Hardcover. {9 & 1/2' x 6 & 1/4'} In jacket slightly darkened at the margins. Black cloth covered spine with white lettering. Black paper covered boards with author's initials stamped in white. Stated, First Edition. With this number line: 98765432, which indicates first editions/first printing..... More
