One Summer
America, 1927
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2013
Price: $29.00
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
A GoodReads Reader's Choice
In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21...
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Jefferson's Daughters
Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
Written by Catherine Kerrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2018
Price: $30.00
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 FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE • “Beautifully written . . . To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha and Maria, [Kerrison] innovatively...
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My American Dream
A Life of Love, Family, and Food
Written by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2018
Price: $31.00
For decades, beloved chef Lidia Bastianich has introduced Americans to Italian food through her cookbooks, TV shows, and restaurants. Now, in
My American Dream, she tells her own story for the very first time. Born in Pula, on the Istrian peninsula, Lidia grew up surrounded by love and security, learning the...
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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Written by Greta Thunberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2020
Price: $12.00
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her history-making address to the United Nations"Everything needs to change. And it has to start today."
In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day...
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House of Trump, House of Putin
The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
Written by Craig Unger
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2018
Price: $32.00
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“The story Unger weaves with those earlier accounts and his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described in the Steele dossier.”—The Washington Post
House of Trump, House of Putin offers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin...
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The Time of Our Lives
A conversation about America
Written by Tom Brokaw
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $26.00
Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the
New York Times bestsellers
The Greatest Generation and
Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America’s greatness.
“What happened to...
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In Such Good Company
Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
Written by Carol Burnett
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2016
Price: $28.00
In this New York Times bestseller, comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. In
In Such Good Company, Carol Burnett pulls back the curtain on the twenty-five-time Emmy-Award winning show that made television history, and she reminisces about the outrageously funny and tender...
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Impeachment
An American History
Written by Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker and Jeffrey A. Engel
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2018
Price: $28.00
Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked—against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton—and explain what it means today.Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called impeachment “the most formidable weapon for the purpose of a...
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