The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925. When his neighbors attempted to drive him out, Sweet defended himself--resulting in the death o…
Shelve Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political h…
Shelve Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
For fans of Laura Childs and Amanda Flowers, it’s teatime in Raven Creek—but a murder at the The Earl’s Study sets the stage for an intoxicating brew of small-town chicanery with a hint of the superna…
Shelve Steeped to Death (Witches' Brew Mystery #1)
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory new account of a pivotal but neglected period in American history: World War I and its stormy afterma…
Shelve American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human condition. It tells the story of two young boxers out of Stockton, California: Ernie Munger and Billy Tu…
HardCover. Pub Date :2009-10-01 400 English HarperCollins UK This is the original and best survival handbook. now in an exclusive package.Loftys extensive survival experience and tried and tested tech…
A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action. In this "penetrating new analysis" ( New York Times Book Review ) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding o…
Shelve When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Mysterious Longhouses in the Arctic, ancient stone beacons in Newfoundland—are they evidence of Europeans who crossed the Atlantic before A.D. 1000? Farley Mowat advances a controversial new theory ab…
The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's deadly secret of Love Canal--exposing one of America's most devastating toxic waste disasters and spar…
Shelve Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, an…
Shelve The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
In "Islam Unveiled," Robert Spencer dares to face the hard questions about what the Islamic religion actually teaches--and the potentially ominous implications of those teachings for the future of bot…
Shelve Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World's Fastest-Growing Faith
The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and …
Shelve Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operation Pedestal, the British action to save its troops from starvation on Malta—an action-packed tale of …
Shelve Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
Vera Martinez wants nothing more than to escape Roaring Creek and her parents' reputation as demonologists. Not to mention she's the family outcast, lacking her parents' innate abilities, and is terri…
Shelve Small Town Monsters (Underlined Paperbacks)
In August 1944, a drab convoy of raw recruits destined to join the 28th Division lumbered along a windy French road strewn with dead animals, shattered bodies, and burning equipment. One of those draf…
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its aut…
With friends like these, enemies are overkill. R to L (Japanese Style). Takashi Natsume can see the spirits and demons that hide from the rest of humanity. He has always been set apart from other peop…
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete …
