GOMORRAH: A PERSONAL JOURNEY INTO THE VIOLENT INTERNATIONAL EMPIRE OF NAPLES' ORGANIZED CRIME SYSTEM
The basis of the Sundance TV series Gomorrah A New York Times Notable Book of the YearGomorrah is a bold and important work of investigative writing...
BARRACOON: THE STORY OF THE LAST SLAVE
New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best...
ZEROZEROZERO: LOOK AT COCAINE AND ALL YOU SEE IS POWDER. LOOK THROUGH COCAINE AND YOU SEE THE WORLD.
An electrifying, internationally bestselling investigation of the global cocaine trade now a series on Prime Video starring Andrea Riseborough, Dane...
History
RED MEMORY: THE AFTERLIVES OF CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Written by Branigan, Tania
"It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned.
GENEALOGY OF A MURDER: FOUR GENERATIONS, THREE FAMILIES, ONE FATEFUL NIGHT
Written by Belkin, Lisa
Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling realization. He knows who the shooter is.
BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: THE UNTOLD STORY OF TWO WOMEN WHO MAPPED THE BOTANY OF THE GRAND CANYON
Written by Sevigny, Melissa L
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world.
FIRST TO THE FRONT: THE UNTOLD STORY OF DICKEY CHAPELLE, TRAILBLAZING FEMALE WAR CORRESPONDENT
Written by Rinehart, Lorissa
The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents. "I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power." From the beginning of World War II through the early days o
SUMMER OF 1876: OUTLAWS, LAWMEN, AND LEGENDS IN THE SEASON THAT DEFINED THE AMERICAN WEST
Written by Wimmer, Chris
From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narratives of the biggest legends in frontier mythology. The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West.
SHORES OF BOHEMIA: A CAPE COD STORY
Written by Williams, John Taylor
An intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth century Their names are iconic: Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius--the list goes on and on.
YOUNG QUEENS: THREE RENAISSANCE WOMEN AND THE PRICE OF POWER
Written by Chang, Leah Redmond
The boldly original, dramatic, intertwined story of three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife.
ANANSI'S GOLD: THE MAN WHO LOOTED THE WEST, OUTFOXED WASHINGTON, AND SWINDLED THE WORLD
Written by Yeebo, Yepoka
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century's longest-running and most spectacular frauds.
SAY ANARCHA: A YOUNG WOMAN, A DEVIOUS SURGEON, AND THE HARROWING BIRTH OF MODERN WOMEN'S HEALTH
Written by Hallman, J C
A compelling reckoning with the birth of women's health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it--until now For more than a century, Dr. J.
REVOLUTIONARY SPRING: EUROPE AFLAME AND THE FIGHT FOR A NEW WORLD, 1848-1849
Written by Clark, Christopher
From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today. As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century.
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