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  • The Secret Game

    A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph

    by Scott Ellsworth ...
    The true story of the game that never should have happened—and of a nation on the brink of monumental change.In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ground Breaking

    The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice

    by Scott Ellsworth ...
    **Housatonic Book Award WinnerLonglisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal in NonfictionShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and Stowe PrizeOne of The New York Times' “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” | One of Oprah Daily's “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May” | One of The Oklahoman's*“*15 Books to Help You Learn About the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100-Year ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The World Beneath Their Feet

    Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas

    by Scott Ellsworth ...
    **Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/BiographyA saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement -- all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war -- that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century.**As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Midnight on the Potomac

    The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America

    by Scott Ellsworth ...
    From the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War—and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham LincolnTold with a page-turning pace, New York Times bestselling author and historian Scott Ellsworth has written the most compelling new book about the Civil War in years. Focusing on the last, desperate ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Death in a Promised Land

    The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

    by Scott Ellsworth ...
    Widely believed to be the most extreme incident of white racial violence against African Americans in modern United States history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the destruction of over one thousand black-owned businesses and homes as well as the murder of between fifty and three hundred black residents.Exhaustively researched and critically acclaimed, Scott Ellsworth’s Death in a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Nation Must Awake

    My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

    by Mary E. Jones Parrish, Anneliese M. Bruner, Ajamu Kojo ...
    Mary Parrish was reading in her home when the Tulsa race massacre began on the evening of May 31, 1921. Parrish’s daughter, Florence Mary, called the young journalist and teacher to the window. “Mother,” she said, “I see men with guns.” The two eventually fled and unwittingly became eyewitnesses to the death of hundreds of Black Oklahomans and the destruction of the Greenwood district, a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    The Ground Breaking

    An American City and Its Search for Justice

    by Scott Ellsworth ...
    Narrated by Adenrele Ojo ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    **Housatonic Book Award WinnerLonglisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal in NonfictionShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and Stowe PrizeOne of The New York Times' “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” | One of Oprah Daily's “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May” | One of The Oklahoman's*“*15 Books to Help You Learn About the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100-Year ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The World Beneath Their Feet

    Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas

    by Scott Ellsworth ...
    Narrated by Scott Ellsworth ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 33 min

    **Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/BiographyA saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement -- all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war -- that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century.**As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Midnight on the Potomac

    The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America

    by Scott Ellsworth ...
    Narrated by Scott Ellsworth ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 51 min

    From the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War—and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham LincolnTold with a page-turning pace, New York Times bestselling author and historian Scott Ellsworth has written the most compelling new book about the Civil War in years. Focusing on the last, desperate ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Secret Game

    A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph

    by Scott Ellsworth ...
    Narrated by Scott Ellsworth ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    The true story of the game that never should have happened—and of a nation on the brink of monumental change.In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Death in a Promised Land

    by Scott Ellsworth ...
    Narrated by Pat Grimes ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 20 min

    Widely believed to be the most extreme incidence of white racial violence against African Americans in modern United States history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the destruction of over one thousand black-owned businesses and homes as well as the murder of between fifty and three hundred black residents. Exhaustively researched and critically acclaimed, Death in a Promised Land is the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • America First

    Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

    by H. W. Brands ...
    **Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh.“An immersive account of America’s fierce debate about joining World War ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook