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  • The Real Promise Keepers II: More Stories of Courage, Achievement And Kindness

    The Real Promise Keepers, #2

    by B.P. Stone ...
    Series Book 2 - The Real Promise Keepers
    What does it mean to keep a promise when the world is watching-and when it isn't?In The Real Promise Keepers II, B.P. Stone interweaves extraordinary true stories and vivid historical fiction, illuminating the quiet heroism and steadfast kindness that shape our world. From the nuclear crisis at Chalk River, where a young Jimmy Carter confronts the terror of a reactor meltdown and learns that true ... Read more

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  • A Paradise Built in Hell

    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disasterWhy is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal ... Read more

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  • Dave Barry Slept Here

    A Sort of History of the United States

    by Dave Barry ...
    “What caused the American Revolution? This is indeed a rhetorical question that for many years historians have begun chapters with. As well they should. For the American Revolution is without a doubt the single most important historical event to occur in this nation except of course for Super Bowl III (Jets 16. Colts 7. This historian won $35).”So goes the skewed sensibility, the muddied mind, the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Deadline

    Essays

    by Jill Lepore ...
    **"Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America’s best historians; it’s fair to say she’s one of its best writers too." —Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles TimesBest Books of 2023: New Yorker, TIMEA book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best.**Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

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  • The Inheritors

    An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning

    by Eve Fairbanks ...
    Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionA dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades in a sweeping and exquisite look at what really happens when a country resolves to end white supremacy.Dipuo grew up on the south side of a mine dump that segregated Johannesburg’s black townships from the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Rainbow Pie

    a redneck memoir

    by Joe Bageant ...
    Rainbow Pie is a coming-of-age memoir wrapped around a discussion of America’s most taboo subject — social class. Set between 1950 and 1963, Joe Bageant uses Maw, Pap, Ony Mae, and other members of his rambunctious Scots–Irish family to chronicle the often-heartbreaking post-war journey of 22 million rural Americans into the cities, where they became the foundation of a permanent white underclass ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Zinn Reader

    Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

    by Howard Zinn ...
    No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Almost a Family

    by John Darnton ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and best-selling author: a beautifully crafted memoir of his lifelong chase after his father’s shadow.John was eleven months old when his father, Barney Darnton—a war correspondent for *The New York Times—*was killed in World War II, but his absence left a more profound imprint on the family than any living father could have. John’s mother, a well-known ... Read more

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  • The Hands of Peace

    A Holocaust Survivor's Fight for Civil Rights in the American South

    by Marione Ingram ...
    Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram survived the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, only to find when she came to the United States that racism was as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe.Moving first to New York and then to Washington, DC, Marione joined the burgeoning civil rights movement, protesting discrimination in housing, employment, education, and other aspects ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Disaster By the Bay: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

    by Howard Brinkley ...
    Over 3,000 dead. Buildings shaken to the ground. A city, surrounded by water, burnt to the ground. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the most destructive natural disasters the world has ever known.In the aftermath of the Earthquake, authorities learned the hard way that the city was vastly unprepared for any disaster. Find out what happened and how the city was repaired in this ... Read more

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  • 101 Amazing Facts About The USA

    by Jack Goldstein ...
    Series Book 3 - Countries of the World
    In this amazing eBook you can find more than one hundred facts about the United States of America. Separated into sections such as its geography, its people, famous American figures from history, presidents and many more you will find some fascinating information inside! Whether you are planning on visiting the USA, working on a geography project or just want to know more about this beautiful ... Read more

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  • Moyers on America

    A Journalist and His Times

    by Bill Moyers ...
    The Peabody Award–winning journalist shares stories and insights into our country and the crises we face in an "eloquent selection of . . . commentaries" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes over the years. With television programs covering topics from American history, politics, and religion to the role of media and the world of ... Read more

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