Search Results for: American
Jam on the Vine
by LaShonda BarnettAn explosive debut novel that chronicles the life of a trailblazing African American woman journalist through the start of the twentieth century.
The Perfect War
by James William Gibson“Powerfully and persuasively, William Gibson tells us why we were in Vietnam. This book is a work of daring brilliance–an eye-opening chronicle of waste and self-delusion.” –Robert Olen Butler…
King of the Blues
by Daniel de ViséThe first full and authoritative biography of an American—indeed a world-wide—musical and cultural legend
First to Fly
by Charles Bracelen FloodFrom a critically acclaimed historian, the lively story of the American pilots who defied neutrality and flew for France before the United States entered World War I.
Sherman Alexie
…Kuo, Alexie excelled at writing and realized he’d found his new career choice. Shortly after graduating in American Studies from WSU, Alexie received the Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship…
The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941
by Paul DicksonThe dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World…
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie“Poetic and unremittingly honest . . . The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s Native Son was for the black American…
The Butterfly Mosque
by G. Willow WilsonThe extraordinary story of an all-American girl’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing…
Time to Start Thinking
by Edward Luce“This is a book that will transform the way you think of this country.” —Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lords of Finance…
Grove at Home: December 6-12
…a leader of the Black Arts Movement, a resounding activist voice in his native Newark, a key figure in the “New American Poetry,” a vocal participant in worldwide Marxist writing,…
