Non Fiction
TIGER GIRL AND THE CANDY KID: AMERICA'S ORIGINAL GANGSTER COUPLE
Written by Stout, Glenn
The true Jazz Age tale of America's first gangster couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore Before Bonnie and Clyde there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck working-class kids from Baltimore, reached for the dream of a better life.
PLUNDER: A MEMOIR OF FAMILY PROPERTY AND NAZI TREASURE
Written by Kaiser, Menachem
From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland--and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the fa
COME FLY THE WORLD: THE JET-AGE STORY OF THE WOMEN OF PAN AM
Written by Cooke, Julia
Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5′3" and
LESSONS FROM THE EDGE: A MEMOIR
Written by Yovanovitch, Marie
An inspiring and urgent memoir by the ambassador who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power. By the time she became US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch had seen her share of corruption, instability, and tragedy in developing countries.
MAN OF JASMINE & OTHER TEXTS
Written by Zürn, Unica
Anagram play meets psychic crisis in Unica Zürn's acclaimed Surrealist document of mental precarity
THIS IS THE FIRE: WHAT I SAY TO MY FRIENDS ABOUT RACISM
Written by Lemon, Don
Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever.
STALIN'S WAR: A NEW HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II
Written by McMeekin, Sean
A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin--not Hitler--was the animating force of World War II in this major new history.
HAWKING HAWKING: THE SELLING OF A SCIENTIFIC CELEBRITY
Written by Seife, Charles
Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive-but what if his true talent was self-promotion?When Stephen Hawking died, he was widely recognized as the world's best physicist, and even its smartest person. He was neither.
MEDITATIONS: THE ANNOTATED EDITION
Written by Aurelius, Marcus
This definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome's sixteenth emperor.
MADAM SPEAKER: NANCY PELOSI AND THE LESSONS OF POWER
Written by Page, Susan
The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by New York Times bestselling author and USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page.