The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America (Roychoudhuri Onnesha)(Paperback)

Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk (Klinenberg Eric)(Paperback)

Claiming Belonging (Cury Emily)(Paperback)

Claiming Belonging dives deep into the lives of Muslim American advocacy groups in the post-9/11 era, asking how they form and function within their broader community in a world marked by Islamophobia. Bias incidents against Muslim Americans reached unprecedented levels a few short years ago, and

Like A Thief In Broad Daylight - Power in the Era of Post-Humanity (Zizek Slavoj)(Paperback / softback)

In our brave new world of Big Tech, work is automated and money melts into air. What comes next as the global capitalist edifice crumbles? Slavoj Zizek shows how the answer is already stealing into sight, like a thief in broad daylight. What we must do is wake up and see it.'In a world determined

Our Souls at Night (Haruf Kent)(Paperback)

A Best Book of the Year The Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Denver Post In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in

Made in Saturn (Indiana Rita)(Paperback)

A generational portrait of Latin America in its post-revolutionary come-down, through the eyes of a recovering heroin addict and

Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America (Auchmutey Jim)(Paperback)

Barbecue: It's America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, the settling of the West, the coming of immigrants, the Great Migration, the rise of the automobile, the expansion of

In the House in the Dark of the Woods (Hunt Laird)(Paperback)

The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations -- witchcraft in colonial America -- wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense. 'Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods.' In this horror story set in colonial New England, a

Tracing Your Poor Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Raymond Stuart A.)(Paperback)

Many people in the past - perhaps a majority - were poor. Tracing our ancestors amongst them involves consulting a wide range of sources. Stuart Raymond's handbook is the ideal guide to them.He examines the history of the poor and how they survived. Some were supported by charity. A few were lucky

Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America (Trump Donald J.)(Paperback)

In this book (previously published as Crippled America), we're going to look at the state of the world right now. It's a terrible mess, and that's putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC are directly responsible for the

Human Stain (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

This is the conclusion to Roth's brilliant trilogy of post-war America - a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration. 'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand' Sunday

Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America (McCall Nathan)(Paperback)

One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

In this profound appraisal of post-September 11, 2001 America, Judith Butler considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from the attack on the US, and US retaliation. Judith Butler critiques the use of violence that has emerged as a response to loss, and

Speaking Truth to Power (Hill Anita)(Paperback)

See the new HBO movie CONFIRMATION about the Clarence Thomas hearings, starring Kerry Washington in the role of Anita Hill then read Hill s own life story. After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figure at the

Deaths of the Poets (Roberts Michael Symmons)(Paperback / softback)

The post-Romantic lore of the dissolute drunken poet has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture. What is the price of poetry?In this book, two contemporary poets embark on a series of journeys to the death places of poets of the past, in part as pilgrims, but also as investigators,

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America (Kendzior Sarah)(Paperback)

Instant New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerIndie Bound BestsellerAuthors Round the South BestsellerMidwest Indie Bestseller New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and

Engine Summer (Crowley John)(Paperback / softback)

In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their narrow borders. It is a society untouched by pain or violence and the self-destroying 'Angels' of the past are barely remembered. But when Rush

Masculinity After Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (Horn Maja)(Paperback)

'Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and literature.'--Ignacio L pez-Calvo, author of God and Trujillo'The ideas about masculinization of power developed by Horn are important not only to Dominican scholarship but also to

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Power Samantha)(Paperback)

In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power―a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy―asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow 'never again' repeatedly fail

Gandhi an Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Gandhi Mohandas K.)(Paperback)

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the

The Power (Alderman Naomi)(Paperback)

In this stunning bestseller that inspired the Amazon Prime series, praised as 'our era's Handmaid's Tale,' a fierce new power has emerged--and only women have it (Washington Post). In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a

Nuclear Politics in America (Duffy Robert J.)(Paperback)

The promise and peril of nuclear power have been a preoccupation of the modern age. Though the nuclear industry has witnessed periods of expansion and retrenchment, there are now more than one hundred nuclear reactors providing America with almost a quarter of its electrical power. Robert Duffy now

The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America (Pearcy Lee T.)(Paperback)

The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury--and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee T

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Rothstein Richard)(Paperback)

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

One Little Lie (Coble Colleen)(Paperback)

It started with one little lie. But Jane Hardy will do everything in her power to uncover the truth in this gripping new romantic suspense. Jane Hardy is appointed interim sheriff in Pelican Harbor, Alabama, after her father retires, but there's no time for an adjustment period. When her father is