Chronological Period/21st Century
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Send a Ranger: My Life Serving the National Parks
$19.95 Add to cartSend a Ranger: My Life Serving the National Parks is the story of one park ranger’s journey from Gettysburg to Denali and back, raising a family, contending with bears, and rescuing hikers, in four na
- Author: Habecker, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493066803
- Language: English
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The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHere is the perfect introductory guide to the history and ideas of the Quakers, one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic religious groups. Emerging in England in the 1650s as a radical sect c… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dandelion, Pink
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0199206791
- Language: English
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Add to cartAdam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history–the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.
Winner … [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618619070
- Language: English
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The January 6th Report Executive Summary
$12.99 Read moreThe fastest way to understand the historic January 6th Report is this definitive edition of the Select Committee’s Executive Summary of the Report to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United S… [more below]
- Author: Select Committee on Jan 6th
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890865
- Language: English
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
$8.99 Read moreNow in paperback! In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the beloved supreme … [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #66
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0711284474
- Language: English
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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending Us Poverty
$18.95 Add to cartFOREWORD INDIES FINALIST — POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES
NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDALIST — SOCIAL CHANGE & SOCIAL JUSTICE ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD 1ST RUNNER UP — CULTURE & MONTAIGNE MEDAL NOMINEE- Author: Goldblum, Joanne Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1637743459
- Language: English
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Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River
$21.95 Read moreScience Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management–and perils in the mismanagement–of water in the western United States. It seems deceptively simple: even when clear evi… [more below]
- Author: Kuhn, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0816543232
- Language: English
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Journey of the Midnight Sun
$21.95 Read moreThis is the true story of the journey of the Midnight Sun Mosque.
In 2010 a Winnipeg-based charity raised funds to build and ship a mosque to Inuvik, one of the most northern towns in Canada’s Arctic.
- Author: Afzal, Shazia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1459827600
- Language: English
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Second Star: And Other Reasons for Lingering
$18.00 Read moreA #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life’s smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windows
A still life- Author: Delerm, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861547
- Language: English
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We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
$10.99 Read moreThis young adult adaptation of the New York Times bestselling White Rage is essential antiracist reading for teens.
An NAACP Image Award finalist
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A NYPL Best Book f- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 154760252X
- Language: English
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Devil House
$28.00 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“It’s never quite the book you think it is. It’s better.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times
From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer- Author: Darnielle, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0374212236
- Language: English
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Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
$17.99 Read more“Twilight in Hazard paints a more nuanced portrait of Appalachia than Vance did…[Maimon] eviscerates Vance’s bestseller with stiletto precision.” –Associated Press
From investigative reporter and P… [more below]- Author: Maimon, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1612199976
- Language: English
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Yoga
$28.00 Read moreNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The Guardian
This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. Emmanuel Carr鑽e is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully- Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0374604940
- Language: English
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Worm: The First Digital World War
$16.00 Read moreThe Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008 and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million computers in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies, and critical government … [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0802145949
- Language: English
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Dolly Parton
$8.99 Read moreIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Dolly Parton, the singer-songwriter and businesswoman.
Little Dolly- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #28
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0711283877
- Language: English
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Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
$34.95 Add to cartThis “breath-taking trip through the union-organizing scene of America in the 21st century” reveals the victories and unconventional strategies of a renowned–and notorious–militant union organizer (… [more below]
- Author: McAlevey, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1781683158
- Language: English
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Dogs of Summer
$23.00 Read more“[A] firecracker of a debut.”
“Andrea Abreu’s debut novel about two girls in the summer heat of Tenerife is perfect for these dog days.”
—The New York Times
—Shreya Chattopadhyay, The New York Times B- Author: Abreu, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 166260159X
- Language: English
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5,000 Days of War: The Firsthand Account of an Afghan Special Forces Operator
$29.99 Read moreYa marg Ya zindagi.
Life or death. Born to poverty and facing starvation in his remote Afghan village, eighteen-year-old Yousuf Sediq travels across Taliban territory to apply for a job as an interp- Author: Sediq, Yousuf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1955026432
- Language: English
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The Little Liar
$15.99 Read moreThis sharp, compelling legal drama from an acclaimed French journalist explores why a teenage victim lied about her rape and how the disadvantaged become scapegoats.
At 15, Lisa was a typical teenager- Author: Robert-Diard, Pascale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 163542416X
- Language: English
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The Sun Does Shine: An Innocent Man, a Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice
$19.99 Read moreA Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times, now adapted for younger readers, with a revise- Author: Hinton, Anthony Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1250817366
- Language: English
