Mockingbird A Portrait of Harper Lee Charles J. Shields Biography Memoir To Kill a Mockingbird—the twentieth century’s most widely read American novel—has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. In this in-depth biography, first published in 2006,…
Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle Memoir For twenty years, Father Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles—also known as the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on…
White Fragility Robin Diangelo Racism In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’…
When Character was King Peggy Noonan Memoir No one has ever captured Ronald Reagan like Peggy Noonan. In When Character Was King, Noonan brings her own reflections on Reagan to bear as well as new stories—from Presidents George W. Bush…
Today I Made a Difference Joseph W. Underwood Inspirational Everyone remembers that teacher who made a difference. The one who went the extra mile to truly affect lives, whose lessons carried as much importance outside the classroom as inside. This…
The Undoing Project Michael Lewis Business Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships in the history of science,…
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman Memoir A Hmong child, her American doctors and the collision of two cultures.
The Small and the Mighty Sharon McMahon Non Fiction In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone…
The Pride of Aggieland Homer Jacobs Non Fiction Few schools, if any, have undergone the transformation of Texas A&M University. Founded in 1876 as a land-grant college for men interested in agricultural and mechanical studies, Texas A&M today is a…