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Murder of the Jujube Candy Heiress

One candy heiress, two bullets and three suspects.The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librarian …

Rosalind Galt

Touki Bouki

Djibril Diop Mambéty's exuberant, inventive and urgent film Touki Bouki (The Journey of the Hyena) (1973) follows a young couple, Mory (Magaye Niang) and Anta (Mareme Niang), who dream of leaving their ho…

Amy Gamerman

The Crazies

"This is a story about a fight between neighbors when the folks next-door are on the Forbes 400 list and you're the guy fixing an irrigation ditch in a vest mended with duct-tape. Big Timber, Montana…

Ernesto Sagás

Latino Colorado

Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado's population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most…

Holly M Karibo

Rehab on the Range

The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West.

Gabe Gutierrez

The Island

NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez offers a forceful, necessary exposé on the precarious realities and politics of modern Puerto Rico, detailing the decade of financial exploitation,…

Yepoka Yeebo

Anansi's Gold

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century's longest-running and most spectacular frauds.

Craig S Harwood

Bridget's Gambit

In 1828 Bridget Miranda Evoy escaped famine-stricken Ireland with her children for a better life in America. But the relief she desperately sought was elusive. Within two years, she was a widow and was le…

Sgt. Kirk

Sergeant Kirk von der 7. US-Kavallerie hat genug von den sinnlosen Blutfehden. Er desertiert und wird Blutsbruder des jungen Indianers Maha von den Tchatooga. Auch mit dem weißen Arzt Dr. Forbes entwickel…

Madhushree Ghosh

Safar

Blends memoir and history to explore the role of Punjabi food in fostering community and identity among South Asian refugees and immigrants.Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food i…

Voltaire,

Letters Concerning the English Nation

Inspired by Voltaire's stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncem…

Jason Allen-Paisant

The Possibility of Tenderness

Finalist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature Writing"Extraordinary . . . Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect." --Marlon James"An extraordinary, necessary boo…

Amanda Bellows

The Explorers

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary---and often overlooked---adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the b…

Minutemen

Double Nickels On The Dime

Todd M Compton

A Frontier Life

Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies Winner of the Evans Biography Award, the John Whitmer Historical Society Best Biography Award, and the Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book AwardFrontier…

Elizabeth Flock

The Furies

"A rresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and nuance. . . . The Furies is deeply respectful of i…

Angela Aleiss

Broken Arrow

An insightful history and analysis of the importance Delmer Daves' film Broken Arrow has in the western film genre. It was, for its time, a breakthrough in how Native Americans were depicted in the movies…

Ada Ferrer

Keeper of My Kin

From the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of Cuba: An American History comes a heartbreaking yet redemptive memoir about migration, separation, and the love of one family forcing its way through the fissure…

Hal Phillips

Sibling Rivalry

A captivating examination of the competitive history, drama, and politics behind the storied rivalry between the United States and Mexico--in international soccer and beyond.Soccer is the most global of p…