Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. Good Samaritan Abdulrahman has stayed on in the city, traversing its deeply flooded streets by canoe, feeding trapped dogs and rescuing sur ...Show more
Midnight in Broad Daylight - A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II-an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption-this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan relations and ...Show more
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been featured on America's official government seals and stamped on its currency. But how did America become 'one nation, ...Show more
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor.Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. I ...Show more
Bermuda Past and Present: A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Somers Islands by Walter Brownell Hayward
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: good
Caribbean Slave Society and Economy - A Student Reader by Hilary M. Beckles (Editor); Verene Shepherd (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Because the institution of slavery has exerted such momentous force in shaping the socioeconomic and political history of the Caribbean, much of the region's historical writing has focused on slavery. Caribbean Slave Society and Economy brings together into one volume the main themes of the recent resea ...Show more
Savage - The Life and Times of Jemmy Button by Nick Hazlewood
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
A tale of tragedy, catastrophe, and the triumph of the human spirit.In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the ...Show more
The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara Tuchman
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - The Conspiracy and Coverup by William W. Turner; John G. Christian
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Was Sirhan a Manchurian Candidate, programmed through hypnosis to kill Robert Kennedy? If Sirhan was facing Kennedy, why were his fatal wounds in the back of his head? This updated edition raises these and other questions regarding one of the greatest unsolved political murders in US history. Photos. ...Show more
Patriotic Gore by E. Wilson
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: Hogarth Critics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
American Society: How it Really Works by Erik Olin Wright
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
In American Society: How It Really Works, Erik Olin Wright and Joel Rogers ask several crucial questions: What kind of society is American society? How does it really work? Why is it the way it is? In what ways does it need changing, and how can those changes be brought about? They explore the implicati ...Show more
A Race Against Death - Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust by David S. Wyman; Rafael Medoff
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark bestseller, The Abandonment of the Jews, David Wyman exhaustively detailed America's failure to help rescue the victims of Nazi genocide. But one man, Peter Bergson, led a tireless battle against that tide of indifference, making it impossible for American leaders to plead ignorance of t ...Show more