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Ronald Reagan
A Graphic Biography
Written by Andrew Helfer; Art by Steve Buccellato and Joe Staton
©2015 | First Edition
Available December 2015

Ronald Reagan
A Graphic Biography
Written by Andrew Helfer; Art by Steve Buccellato and Joe Staton
©2015 | First Edition
Available April 2013

Crossing Over
A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Rubén Martínez
©2013 | First Edition
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Listen to This

Alex Ross
©2011 |
One of The Telegraph’s Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross’s award-winning  .....[+]
One of The Telegraph’s Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross’s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history—from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin—through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us how to listen more closely.
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Children of Fire
A History of African Americans
Thomas C. Holt
©2011 | First Edition
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Conversations with Myself

Nelson Mandela; Foreword by President Barack Obama
©2011 |
Foreword by President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela is one of the most ins .....[+]
Foreword by President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. From letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, Conversations with Myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure. Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the antiapartheid struggle in the early 1960s, and conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of recorded conversations. Here he is neither icon nor saint. An intimate journey from the first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations with Myself is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.
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War Is Not Over When It's Over
Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War
Ann Jones
©2011 |
From the renowned authority on domestic violence, a startlingly original in .....[+]
From the renowned authority on domestic violence, a startlingly original inquiry into the aftermath of wars and their impact on the least visible victims: women In 2007, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which brings relief to countries in the wake of war, wanted to understand what really happened to women in post-conflict zones. Answers came through the point and click of digital cameras. On behalf of the IRC, Ann Jones spent a year traveling through Africa, East Asia, and the Middle East, lending cameras to women who had no other means of telling the world what war had done to their lives. Their photographs chronicle the consequences of modern warfare for the most vulnerable. Animated by the voices of brave and resourceful women, War Is Not Over When It’s Over is a powerful dispatch from the ruins.