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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

by Catherine Kerrison

Published: 2018-01-30

Kindle Edition: 409 pages

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The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters—two white and free, one black and enslaved—and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America   Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet ...

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Grist Mill Road: A Novel

by Christopher J. Yates

Published: 2018-01-09

Hardcover: 352 pages

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An Entertainment Weekly "Must Read" "Twisty and told from multiple perspectives, this meaty thriller races to a satisfying finish." ?People magazine"The intensity of the storytelling is exhilarating and unsettling." ?Booklist (starred review)Twenty-six years ago Hannah had her eye shot out...

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Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War (Civil War America)

by Christian McWhirter

Published: 2014-02-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Music was everywhere during the Civil War. Tunes could be heard ringing out from parlor pianos, thundering at political rallies, and setting the rhythms of military and domestic life. With literacy still limited, music was an important vehicle for communicating ideas about the war, and it ...

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Look Again: A Novel

by Lisa Scottoline

Published: 2010-02-09

Paperback: 385 pages

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When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops?the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity be...

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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street

by Matt Taibbi

Published: 2017-10-24

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The DivideNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-...

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Pillow Thoughts

by Courtney Peppernell

Published: 2017-08-29

Paperback: 272 pages

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Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel.Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most.

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The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi

by Arun Gandhi

Published: 2017-04-25

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century—Mahatma Gandhi—in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi’s grandson, A...

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To The Stars Through Difficulties: A Novel

by Romalyn Tilghman

Published: 2017-04-04

Paperback: 320 pages

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Andrew Carnegie funded fifty-nine public libraries in Kansas in the early 20th century?but it was frontier women who organized waffle suppers, minstrel shows, and women's baseball games to buy books to fill them. Now, a century later, Angelina returns to her father's hometown of New Hope t...

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Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®

by Joseph Romm

Published: 2015-12-03

Paperback: 328 pages

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Climate change will have a bigger impact on humanity than the Internet has had. The last decade's spate of superstorms, wildfires, heat waves, and droughts has accelerated the public discourse on this topic and lent credence to climatologist Lonnie Thomson's 2010 statement that climate cha...

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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

by Mark Lynas

Published: 2008-10-07

Paperback: 336 pages

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Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next. Written by the acclaimed author of High Tide, this highly relevant and compelli...