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American War
American War
A Novel
Omar El Akkad
978-1-101-97313-4
"Powerful....As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America....Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot elements familiar to readers of the recent young-adult dystopian series The Hunger Games and Divergent."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Paperback
Tales of Two Americas
Tales of Two Americas
Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
978-0-14-313103-8
Some of the literary world's most exciting writers—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many more—look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation.
Paperback
Behold the Dreamers
Behold the Dreamers
A Novel
Imbolo Mbue
978-0-525-50971-4
In the vein of Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini comes a compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.
Paperback
The Line Becomes a River
The Line Becomes a River
Dispatches from the Border
Francisco Cantú
978-0-7352-1771-3
A former Border patrol agent's haunting experience of an unnatural divide and the lives caught on either side, struggling to cross or to defend it. "A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk—and lose—their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective."—Phil Klay, author of Redeployment
Hardcover
Homegoing
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
978-1-101-97106-2
The unforgettable New York Times best seller begins with the story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indelibly drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day.
Paperback
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson
978-1-59463-401-7
For three years Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, traveled the world meeting people whose mistakes or lapses in judgment were met with a firestorm of collective outrage enabled by social media—often with profound consequences on their lives. In So You've Been Publicly Shamed, he explores their stories and delivers and incisive critique of modern-day shaming as a form of social control and as a war on human nature and its flaws.
Paperback
It's What I Do
It's What I Do
A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Lynsey Addario
978-0-14-312841-0
War photographer Lynsey Addario has traveled to every major theater of war of the 21st century to document the conflicts that have made, and remade, our world. In this inspirational memoir she explores her role as a photojournalist who documents not only the news, but also the fate of society. "[An] unflinching memoir. [Addario’s] book, woven through with images from her travels, offers insight into international events and the challenges faced by the journalists who capture them."—The Washington Post
Paperback
The Association of Small Bombs
The Association of Small Bombs
A Novel
Karan Mahajan
978-0-14-310927-3
"Like a Russian novel set in India, Karan Mahajan's Association of Small Bombs has the sweep, wisdom and sensibility of the old masters. Here the humor of Bulgakov and the heart of Pasternak deliver an exploded-view of a small bomb that goes off in a minor market in a corner of South Delhi. Like shrapnel, themes of suffering, dislocation and redemption radiate from the blast, and none will be spared Mahajan's piercing gaze. Urgent and masterful, this novel shows us how bystander, bomber, victim, and survivor will forever share a patch of scorched ground."—Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son
Paperback
Bones
Bones
Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream
Joe Tone
978-0-8129-8960-1
A cinematic true-crime story set at the Mexican-American border about two very different brothers whose lives intertwine in an FBI drug investigation and a champion race horse.
Hardcover
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