In their kitchens, at gravesites, each character tells the story of a nation abandoned by the Kremlin. In doing so, they have overhauled American politics. The stakes here extend beyond American politics; Mayer points out that Koch money upholds some of the institutions most vigorously fighting climate activism and defending the fossil fuel industry.
France recounts the ways in which scientists and doctors first responded to the virus, tracing the evolution of that understanding from within a small circle to a broad cry for awareness and resources; meanwhile, he shows how a community of people fighting for their lives mobilized alternative systems of communication, education, and support while facing an almost inconceivable wall of barriers to that work. This is an enraging history, one of various institutional failures, missed opportunities, hypocrisies, and acts of malice toward a community in crisis, motivated by hatred and horror of queer people and gay men in particular.
But I felt equally enraged and in awe. This is a humbling history to read, especially if, like me, you come from a generation of queer people that has been accused of forgetting it.
This was not an isolated phenomenon. It extended from Caribbean plantations to Western mining interests. Native tribes were not simply wiped out by disease, war, and brutal segregation. They were also worked—against their will, without pay, in mass numbers—to death.
It was a sustained and organized enslavement. The Other Slavery also tells the story of uprising—communities that resisted, individuals who fought. In addition to his skills as a historian and an investigator, Resendez is a skilled storyteller with a truly remarkable subject. This is historical nonfiction at its most important and most necessary. I assured her I was okay, trying not to laugh. She was just so worried. I turned back to my book to find Traister describing this kind of cultural distress— a woman, alone, in public?!
Traister also highlights the networks of social support that women have created in order to survive patriarchy and establish lifestyles that did not depend on it; intimacy and communication among unmarried women, she shows, were the backbone of activist and reform movements that successfully challenged the dominant order. The book draws on interviews from dozens of women of varying backgrounds, and their firsthand accounts are a portrait of life amid a historic shift toward female autonomy.
But in looking at the life behind the books, Wilder emerges as a tenacious, sometimes fragile figure, and as a literary operator of uncommon nous and self-awareness.
Drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Prairie Fires has all the essentials of a great history book. In , monuments commemorating heroes of the Confederacy were being debated, defaced and toppled throughout the United States. For decades before Prophet of Freedom astonished critics and general readers, Blight had been making his name as one of the leading Douglass scholars in the US.
Many may be surprised to learn, for example, what a vocal supporter Douglass was of the Civil War and violence as a necessary means to dismantle the system that had nearly destroyed him.
Macfarlane has always been a generous guide in his wanderings, the glint of his erudition softened as if through the welcoming haze of a fireside yarn down the pub.
Even as he considers all we have wrought upon the earth, squeezing himself into the darker chambers of human creation—our mass graves, our toxic tombs—Macfarlane never succumbs to pessimism, finding instead in the contemplation of deep time a path to humility. This is an epochal work, as deep and resonant as its subject matter, and would represent for any writer the achievement of a lifetime. Attempting, in a single volume, to cover the scale and complexity of the Northern Ireland Troubles—a bloody and protracted political and ethno-nationalist conflict that came to dominate Anglo-Irish relations for over three decades—while also conveying a sense of the tortured humanity and mercurial motivations of some of its most influential and emblematic individual players and investigating one of the most notorious unsolved atrocities of the period, is, well, a herculean task that most writers would never consider attempting.
His mesmerizing account, both panoramically sweeping and achingly intimate, uses the disappearance and murder of widowed mother of ten Jean McConville in Belfast in as a fulcrum, around which the labyrinthine wider narrative of the Troubles can turn.
The book, while meticulously researched and reported Radden Keefe interviewed over one hundred different sources, painstakingly sorting through conflicting and corroborating accounts , also employs a novelistic structure and flair that in less skilled hands could feel exploitative, but here serves only to deepen our understanding of both the historical events and the complex personalities of ultimately tragic figures like Dolours Price, Brendan Hughes, and McConville herself—players in an attritional drama who have all too often been reduced to the status of monster or martyr.
Maggie Nelson, if evaluated from a first glance at her authored works, may appear to be a paradox. Nelson hashes out the intersection of the two across multiple essays. Cruelty, counterbalanced with compassion—especially with reference to Buddhism—is certainly not hailed by Nelson as a cause for celebration but worthy of rumination and analysis so that it is not employed tacitly and without recourse.
Before that, he was charting the plight of migrants running the terrible gauntlet across borders and through narco-controlled territories. The subject matter is dark, but Martinez writes with the terrible, piercing clarity of a Cormac McCarthy. The Beast is a dispatch from a nearly lawless land, where families struggle and suffer, narcos get richer, violence spreads, the drugs head north, the guns head south, and so it goes on. Forget the rhetoric, the politics, and the propaganda. The Beast is the real story of the drug war.
Where can you avoid getting kidnapped by the narcos? Where is there a spot left with no wall, no robbers, and no narcos? Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. By Alfred Lansing. The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. Fever Pitch.
By Nick Hornby. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. By Elie Wiesel. A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family, the death of his innocence, and the death of his God.
We Should All be Feminists. By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A unique definition of feminism for the 21st century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.
By Piers Paul Read. On October 12, , a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the 45 original passengers and crew, only 16 made it off the mountain alive. Bad Blood. By Lorna Sage. Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoir of her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain - and the story of the weddings and relationships that defined three generations of her family.
How to Cook a Wolf. By MFK Fisher. Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty, reminding them that providing sustenance requires more than putting food on the table. A Moveable Feast. By Ernest Hemingway. A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
A Short History of Nearly Everything. By Bill Bryson. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. Alexander Hamilton. By Ron Chernow. The riveting life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.
By Malcolm Gladwell. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Kitchen Confidential. By Anthony Bourdain. A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege By Antony Beevor. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle.
Dreams From My Father. By Barack Obama. In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. How to Win Friends and Influence People. By Dale Carnegie. Advice on how to make friends quickly and easily, win people over to your way of thinking, become a better speaker and more entertaining conversationalist and arouse enthusiasm among your associates.
If They Come in the Morning. By Angela Y. The scathing analysis of the role of prison and the policing of black populations offered by Davis and her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as pertinent today as the day it was first published. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. By Fredrick Douglass. Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write.
It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. The Road to Wigan Pier. By George Orwell. The workshop also taught teachers how to pair non-fiction books with their current curriculum.
Room to Read successfully advocated for and informed government-led professional development for teachers to effectively use non-fiction books in the classroom to support children's learning. Non-fiction supports both curriculum in specific content areas math, science, etc. The results were overwhelming positive. Learn about exciting education projects emerging in countries around the world.
Literacy, India. Read More. Find out more. Share this Page:. Why do we need more children's non-fiction books? How do children benefit from non-fiction books? The Global Reading Network notes reading informational, child-friendly books : 1. Prepares students for later grades The bulk of books read in the higher grades are informational texts that focus on a particular subject.
Expands a child's vocabulary Vocabulary knowledge is key to comprehending text and academic success. Aids second language learners With realistic pictures and locally contextualiz ed content, students learning to read in a second language can connect familiar images with words from the new language. Offers solutions to real-world problems Many students in Tanzania and other countries we work in struggle daily with hunger, child labor, or staying in school.
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