American Violence

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire...

**FULL STANDALONE NOVEL** Storm’s life is a painful disaster. Her father’s passing away, she hasn’t spoken to her mother in years, and she’s in a cruel, abusive marriage with her husband Chase. Is there any way out for her? On his deathbed, her father pleads with her to leave Chase. Her brother vows to help her escape the violence. With help from a family friend, she establishes a new life in Chicago. She has a new job, new apartment, and a friendship with the family friend’s son Kobe. He’s a playboy with a girlfriend named Samantha, but he’s developing feelings for Storm. In ...

Previously titled: An Obsessed Kind of Love Jessica is more than the baby momma of Dominic... She's a social media influencer with 1.1 million followers. Many worship her for all the wrong reasons. So does Dominic. What could go wrong... Everything! The more money she makes, the more naked she gets and some of her followers want more... Dominic aint having it! He wants her to stop. He wants her back. But when he realizes that she is enamored with his rival, all bets are off. Jessica doesn’t listen and soon, things start to happen. Dominic is watching. His jealousy is heating up. He ...

This searing audio documentary brings listeners deep inside the unforgettable story of MOVE, gaining unprecedented access to surviving MOVE members, elected officials from the era, eyewitnesses, and historians to create an indelible portrait of an American tragedy.

THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous...

North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an "American" or "Canadian" culture, but rather into one of the 11 distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each staking out mutually exclusive territory. In American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey through the history of our fractured continent....

Bobbi has survived an abusive marriage with the son of a Senator. This as well as an attempt on her life when she decided that enough was enough. Now, she's happily married with a son of her own. Life should be blissful. Except for the memories, flashbacks and emotional trauma left by not just him, but others who were supposed to care for her. Follow Bobbi on her journey of healing from abuse. Kelvin, Bobbi's husband knows that something is not right. His wife isn't sleeping, eating or being herself. She has changed since the shooting that nearly took both of their lives and ended in the ...

From the Pulitzer-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Nazis Next Door, a deeply reported exploration of the violent resurgence of hatred and white supremacy through the lens of Orange County, California—“ground zero” for racial extremism—and the story of one brutal murder...

“This book is so many things I didn’t know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny’s insipid, predictable, infuriating reign.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other Parties and the...

1919, the Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow Black citizens. In city after city, Black men and women took up arms to repel mobs that used lynching, assaults, and other forms of violence to protect white supremacy; yet, authorities blamed Blacks for the violence, leading to mass arrests and misleading news coverage.

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents the epic history of America’s most controversial weapon. In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight...

The gripping story of the Ruby Ridge siege, showing how the historic standoff between federal agents and a white-separatist family set the stage for the conspiracy-laced politics of the Trump era. “Vivid, frightening, and fascinating…This book blew me away and opened my eyes.”—Walter...

We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin...

America is facing a reckoning. Trump and the Erosion of Democracy: Why America’s Institutions Are Failing is a gripping, timely examination of how partisan warfare, collapsing trust, and rising populism are shaking the very foundations of the American republic. Through vivid historical storytelling and sharp analysis, this book reveals how political polarization has reached levels not seen since the Civil War, why faith in Congress, the Supreme Court, and the electoral system is plummeting, and how presidents, governors, and even ordinary citizens are testing the limits of the ...

“An engrossing, moving, and utterly motivating account of the human stakes of gun violence in America.”—Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Education of an Idealist Is America destined to always be a violent nation? This sweeping history by U.S. senator Chris Murphy...

Discover the book that inspired Tom DeLonge's new sci-fi epic Time Rider, Peter Levenda's Sinister Forces returns in a special Twentieth Anniversary Deluxe Edition, uniting all three chilling volumes in one collector's release. In Sinister Forces, Levenda uncovers hidden threads of American...

This is Citizen Jack’s book, a masterful demonstration of a personal view turned sociopolitical gold. —CHARLES R. AULT JR., Professor Emeritus, Lewis & Clark College Discover the truth about the Trump years with Citizen Jack's gripping and detailed account in The Trump Files. Renowned science educator, researcher, blogger, and author Jack Hassard vividly documents the nation's turbulent Trump years and brings readers back to those troubling days. Through sharp, clear-eyed prose, he takes on racial injustice, the Trumpist worldview, and how science was diminished in the Trump era. The ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.​ A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP since the...

From a New York Times bestselling author, a masterful history of the American West—from the California Gold Rush to the settling of Oklahoma and beyond. "Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians." —Hampton Sides, bestselling...

American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic and complex story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that profoundly shaped the American West.