Chronological Period/21st Century
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
$19.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture, this is the first–and only–definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history.When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’… [more below]
- Author: Hansen, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1501153064
- Language: English
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Just- Author: Eisinger, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1501121375
- Language: English
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Paul Simon: The Life
$20.99 Add to cartAcclaimed music writer Robert Hilburn’s “epic” and “definitive” (Rolling Stone) biography of music icon Paul Simon, written with Simon’s full participation–but without his editorial control–that “re… [more below]
- Author: Hilburn, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1501112139
- Language: English
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
$19.99 Add to cart“An important, disturbing, and gripping history” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1476763267
- Language: English
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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
$17.00 Add to cartIn “a clear-eyed and shrewd examination…of how the US seems to be mired in a losing and intractable battle against global terrorism” (Publishers Weekly), Mark Danner describes a nation forever alter… [more below]
- Author: Danner, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1476747776
- Language: English
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Here We Go Again: My Life in Television
$18.99 Add to cartA memoir of Betty White’s first five decades on television–as irreverent and irresistible as the beloved actress herself–filled “with inspiring cheerfulness” (The New York Times).Betty White first a… [more below]
- Author: White, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 1451613695
- Language: English
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Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartFrom two lawyers at the forefront of the reproductive rights movement, this fully updated book shares bold strategies meant to help restore and expand reproductive and sexual rights.
Reproductive free… [more below]
- Author: Kolbert, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0306925648
- Language: English
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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
$24.99 Read more“The ‘how-to manual’ for whites to work with people of color to create an inclusive, just world in the 21st century.” –Maggie Potapchuk, racial equity consultant
Over 50,000 copies sold of earlier e
- Author: Kivel, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0865718652
- Language: English
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Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death
$10.99 Add to cartFrom #1 New York Times bestselling true-crime author Ann Rule comes “a convincing portrait of a meticulous criminal mind” (The Washington Post) in this chilling tale about a beautiful and charming wid… [more below]
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 447
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743410130
- Language: English
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Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power
$19.99 Add to cart“A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help of social media.” — San Francisco Chronicle
Wael Ghonim was a little-known, thirty-year-old Google exec- Author: Ghonim, Wael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0547867093
- Language: English
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3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop’s Multibillion-Dollar Rise
$29.00 Add to cartTracing the careers of hip-hop’s three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons: Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-Z.
Being- Author: Greenburg, Zack O’Malley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0316316539
- Language: English
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Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander’s Account of the Hunt for the World’s Most Wanted Man
$21.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller Kill Bin Laden is an explosive first-hand account of a Delta Force commando’s hunt for the world’s most wanted man.
The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the w- Author: Fury, Dalton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0312567405
- Language: English
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Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda
$18.99 Add to cartWe learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a model of evangelization in Africa. Yet in 1994, beginning on the Thur… [more below]
- Author: Katongole, Emmanuel M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0310284899
- Language: English
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
$24.00 Read moreAfter serving six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, Robert M. Gates believed that he had left Washington politics behind for good–but when he received the call from the Wh
- Author: Gates, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 030794963X
- Language: English
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Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
$22.00 Add to cart“[An] unforgettable memoir” (Boston Globe) that provides a window into the wildly divergent nations that once comprised the Soviet Union, from a former NPR reporter
Not with a bang, but with a quiet,- Author: Sheets, Lawrence Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0307395839
- Language: English
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The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
$26.95 Add to cartA leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destru… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0231149522
- Language: English
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China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartIn this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent que… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know (Paperback)
- Author: Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0190659084
- Language: English
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Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Benny Martinez walks into the offices of the Philadelphia Daily News in 2008 to speak with reporter Wendy Ruderman, the paper is on the brink of bankruptcy. What he tells Wendy and her colleague
- Author: Ruderman, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 006208545X
- Language: English
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The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire
$18.99 Add to cart“A highly colorful, swashbuckling read, one that will give you new respect for Britain’s first Elizabeth.” —Seattle Times
An illuminating revisionist biography about Queen Elizabeth I and her merchant
- Author: Ronald, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0060820675
- Language: English
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war–and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises–from Tru… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1982107308
- Language: English
