In a letter to his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the reality of being black in America, combining personal stories with history to show how race is a social construct and how people continue to fight for freedom.
Step into Savannah's sultry, Spanish moss-draped world, where a high-society murder uncovers eccentric characters, voodoo rituals, and Old South secrets.
During the Great Depression and rise of Nazism, nine working-class American rowers form a strong bond, pursue Olympic gold, and show the power of unity and determination.
This foundational text, spanning millennia and continents, combines divine revelation, human history, and lasting wisdom, shaping the spiritual and ethical outlook of Western civilization.
From street crime and prison, Malcolm X's autobiography chronicles his transformation into a powerful voice for Black liberation and a devout Muslim, ultimately challenging his fiery rhetoric with a message of universal brotherhood.
In 1776, an untested George Washington and his Continental Army fought against the British Empire to turn the words of independence into a real nation.
Mary Roach uncovers the adventurous afterlife of human cadavers, from scientific breakthroughs to unusual experiments, revealing their vital contributions after death.
Plato's "The Republic" explores justice, reality, and the ideal individual through Socratic dialogues, envisioning a harmonious state led by philosopher-kings.
A twelve-year-old boy's innocence is shattered as he transforms from a refugee into a child soldier, forced to commit unspeakable acts in the brutal civil war of Sierra Leone.
In a vivid black-and-white graphic memoir, a spirited young girl navigates the bewildering contradictions and brutal realities of the Islamic Revolution and war with Iraq, all while trying to find her place in a country rapidly losing its own.
Krakauer examines the 'divinely inspired' double murder by two fundamentalist Mormon brothers, showing the intersection of faith, polygamy, and violence in America's religious fringes.
A tenacious true crime journalist's obsessive, posthumously published investigation into the Golden State Killer exposes the chilling details of his reign of terror and the wreckage left in his wake.
Abraham Lincoln united his fiercest political rivals into a cabinet of extraordinary talent to navigate the nation through the Civil War and preserve the Union.
Yuval Noah Harari charts humanity's ambitious, potentially risky journey from overcoming famine, disease, and war to upgrading ourselves into god-like beings through technology and bioengineering.
This is the true story of Seabiscuit, a crooked-legged racehorse, and the unlikely trio who made him an American sports legend, captivating a nation during the Great Depression.
Amidst the horrors of the Holocaust, a German industrialist risks everything to turn his factory into a sanctuary, saving over a thousand Jews from the gas chambers through bribery and deception.
Bryan Stevenson, a young lawyer, confronts the racial injustice of America's legal system through the fight for Walter McMillian, a man wrongly condemned to death row, showing how mercy can improve a broken justice system.
