Browsing: Politics and Current Events

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach…

With over 9,500 five-star Goodreads ratings: As a struggling single mother, Stephanie Land became a housekeeper to make ends meet. She offers “an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor” (People) in this New York Times Notable Book of 2019 that inspired a new Netflix series.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award From the author of the New York…

A New York Times bestseller: This “deeply caring, eloquently reasoned inquiry” (Booklist starred review) argues that climate change and new technologies are converging to threaten the human experience — and offers a path forward.

In 17th-century London, preacher Titus Oates tells tales of a Catholic uprising against Charles II. Writer Nathaniel Thompson doesn’t believe his story, but when he takes a public stand against Oates, he and his family face consequences they never imagined…

“One of the best thrillers to come along in years” (Michael Connelly): FBI agent Peter Sutherland must track down a mole in the White House — and stop a devastating catastrophe. “Plenty of breathless one-more-chapter, stay-up-late suspense… Irresistible” (Lee Child).

A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises — not unlike those of the present day –…

The year 1215 saw the signing of the Magna Carta, an act that would have a lasting impact worldwide. This humorous, fast-moving account of a major moment in history will both entertain and inform.

Obeying Evil presents the shocking true story of Ronald Gene Simmons and the most disturbing family killing spree in the…

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood,…