Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
THE FIRST DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE INFAMOUS 1971 ATTICA PRISON UPRISING, THE STATE'S VIOLENT RESPONSE, AND THE VICTIMS' DECADES-LONG QUEST FOR JUSTICE On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding ...Show more
Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It by Larrie D. Ferreiro
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
The remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution's success depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain, and places the Revolution in the context of the global strategic interests of those nations in their fight against England. In this groundbreaking, revisionist h ...Show more
Collected Poems: 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich
$81.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Adrienne Rich whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (The New York Times) was the singular voice of her generation. She brought discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of poetical discourse, pushing formal boundaries and consi ...Show more
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go for those we love the most? When Margaret's fiance, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bri ...Show more
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The astonishing story of autism as it has been discovered and felt by parents, children and doctors The first child to be diagnosed with autism, Donald Triplett, was born more than eighty years ago in Mississippi, and in the years that followed, autism remained a rare condition, limited to the eleven c ...Show more
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren
$48.99 NZD
Category: History
In the tradition of Edmund S. Morgan, whose American Slavery, American Freedom revolutionized colonial history, a new generation of historians is fundamentally rewriting America's beginnings. Nowhere is this more evident than in Wendy Warren's explosive New England Bound, which reclaims the lives of so ...Show more
Olio by Tyehimba Jess
$54.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes d ...Show more
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography or Autobiography
The Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can bear down on an individual life. And yet Hisham Matar's memoir isn't just about the burden of the past, but the consolation of love, literature and art. It is the story of what ...Show more
Underground Railroad by Whitehead Colson
$60.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Newest Oprah Book Club 2016 Selection From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all t ...Show more