Reality is stranger than fiction, and you are here for it! Charts, facts, and historical events are your binge-reading materials. Who needs dragons when you have real-world drama?
Reality is stranger than fiction, and you are here for it! Charts, facts, and historical events are your binge-reading materials. Who needs dragons when you have real-world drama?
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Tells the story of how Albany High School handled a racist social media incident that caused lasting and devastating consequences.
"Financial hype woman" Berna Anat explains all the stuff young adults need to know about personal finance, covering everything from how and why to make a budget, to understanding the inequalities of our economy and how to work to change them.
By Paul S. Boynton
Make your life richer and more fulfilling, thanks to simple principles that are both universal and easy to understand and apply day-to-day.
A hilarious, heartwarming memoir of growing up and becoming yourself in an Egyptian Muslim family.
A meticulously reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines' drug war. For six years, [the author] had the distinctive beat of chronicling the killings carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of Duterte's war on drugs - a war that has led to the slaughter of thousands - immersing herself in the world of killers and survivors.
The NBA all-star, gold medal Olympian, four time NBA champion, and four-time finals MVP has been a pivotal figure in both the culture and politics of basketball. The Book of James examines his evolution from a basketball protégé to social activist.
A mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z.
Draws on exclusive interviews with the leaders of the fashion world to tell the story of the hip-hop artists, designers, stylists, and unsung heroes who fought the power and reinvented style around the world over the last fifty year.
Graphic Novel
Set between New Jersey and Seoul, this coming-of-age story follows the author as she goes to South Korea, where she realizes something that changes her perspective on her family, her heritage and herself.
America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and re-examines the myths we’ve been telling ourselves for centuries. Fully illustrated with collaged archival photographs, maps, documents, graphic elements, and hand written text, this book is a dazzling, immersive experience that jumps around in time and will make you view history in a whole different light.
The dramatic stories of two Jewish teenagers who beat the odds by surviving the Holocaust and went on to bear witness. These gripping true stories follow Rudolph, who escaped Auschwitz, becoming the first survivors to expose Nazi concentration camps to the world, and Gerta, his high school friend who began to cave under pressure from German Nazis in Hungary.
A collection of humorous essays by actress, producer, and comedian Issa Rae, on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that "regards introverts as hapless misfits, and Black as cool."
Graphic Novel
A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports--and a tribute to his fight for civil rights.
An intimate, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir by 25 year old Ly Tran about her journey from war-torn Vietnam to Queens, and ultimately to the Ivy League. Against the landscape of nail salons and sweat shops, she depicts her courage, dreams, and her fight for sanity and humanity.
The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.
So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery.
"I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost anything."
Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law, a redemptive love story and a moving account of one woman's battle to create a place for herself and the 5% of the population who are also - like her - sociopaths.
A biography of the legendary physicist that examines his complex and contradictory nature--from brilliant scientist to charming womanizer and life of the party--in 99 vignettes based on intriguingly different particles.
A revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn all he can about blindness as a distinct and rich culture all its own.