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Out of Difficulty: Hope Lives On is a work of narrative nonfiction that traces the connected journeys of two American families shaped by their founding patriarchs, George Simmons and Elijah Sharkey. Born into the antebellum South, these African American men came of age in a nation struggling to define itself—and their families carried that unfinished struggle forward across generations. Set against the backdrop of war, Reconstruction, violence, migration, betrayal, and tragedy, the Simmons and Sharkey families built legacies rooted in land, kinship, faith, and perseverance.

BED-STUY: Where It Started is a raw, heartfelt look at growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, told through the eyes of Keeda. From family, block life, childhood games, school days, street pressure, style, survival, and change, this book captures the neighborhood with honesty, love, and memory. It is not just a story about where Keeda came from. It is a tribute to the place that shaped him.

Shadows in Paradise: The Dark History of the CNMI Guest Worker Program explores one of the most overlooked chapters of modern American history. For decades, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a U.S. territory in the Western Pacific, operated a labor system that brought tens of thousands of foreign workers from countries such as the Philippines, China, Bangladesh, and others to build its economy.

South Carolina is a place where centuries of history meet breathtaking natural beauty. From the historic streets of Charleston and the sandy shores of Myrtle Beach to the peaceful forests of Congaree National Park and the scenic peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Palmetto State offers unforgettable experiences for every traveler.

A timeless historical narrative for listeners who love western history, pioneer stories, and classic Americana. A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-Team Method. In the spring of 1857, William Audley Maxwell joined a wagon train bound for California, embarking on a four-month journey across nearly 2,000 miles of untamed wilderness. More than a memoir, Crossing the Plains is a vivid firsthand account of life on the Overland Trail during the final years of America's great westward migration.

It is time to focus on what the United States has gotten right in the pursuit of liberty in the last 250 years since the nation’s founding. Two beliefs undergird America’s experiment in liberty, and they are articulated in the Declaration of Independence. The book “We Hold These Truths”...

At the heart of The America Codes (Phase One : Apollo to Artemis) are two extraordinary young twins whose lives are swept into a mystery hidden in plain sight inside the Declaration of Independence. What begins with lucid dreams, strange clues, and an irresistible curiosity soon becomes a...

A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize–winning American author Cormac McCarthy, from Tracy Daugherty, the New York Times bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist biography Larry McMurtry: A Life. Cormac McCarthy is hailed as one of America’s greatest novelists. In his body of work...

A crucial, clear-eyed assessment of what connects the two most influential moments of political violence in recent American history, and where we go from here This dramatic, revealing book offers an insider account of the planning and aftermath of the racist riot in Charlottesville on August 12...

A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer womens lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spaces. For as long as queer women have existed, theyve created gathering grounds where they can be themselves. From the intimate darkness of the...

On June 4, 1944, the course of World War II was forever changed. That day, a US Navy task force achieved the impossiblecapturing a German U-Boat. Called Operation Nemo, it was the first seizure of an enemy ship in battle since the War of 1812, one of the greatest achievements of the US Navy and...

You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and Off-Broadway with gravitas. It reported on the AIDS crisis with urgency and seriousness when...

Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century. His work was instrumental in the turn toward free markets that defined the 1980s, and his full-throated defenses of capitalism and freedom resonated with audiences around the world. Its...

*Canada Reads 2019 Longlist *National Bestseller *New York Times Bestseller *Finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction *Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards *Longlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize *Winner of the Blue Metropolis First Peoples...

Reconstruction begins where, for most Americans, the story of the Civil War ends: The North is victorious and slavery is abolished. But what happened next was one of the most important decades in American history, a moment when our country grappled with its original sin and imagined — and briefly enacted — a more perfect union.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United States.

‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive …”’ Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It is one of the best narrative histories I’ve read.” —The Wall Street Journal A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 by The Washington Post, TIME, The Economist, Air Mail...

Mark Twain's wit and wisdom is timeless. Mark Twain's Hawaii: A Humorous Romp through History, combines Twain's own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at that time, and traces Twain's journey through the region just as he experienced it in 1866. The book...

How often do you pop into your local grocery store to grab a few necessary items? Now, how often do you think about how amazing it is that you can do that at a moment’s notice? In truth, we seldom stop to think about all the cultural, commercial, and technological factors that have converged to give us easy access to an incredible range of food and other products, all in one place. As you will discover in The History of Grocery Stores and Food Access in America, we shouldn’t take the neighborhood grocery store for granted.