Allegheny Front
8 best books like Allegheny Front (Matthew Neill Null): Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ghosts, Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America, If They Come for Us, The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America
| Author | Bill Geist |
| ISBN | 1538729806 |
Beloved TV host Bill Geist pens a reflective memoir of his incredible summers spent in the heart of America in this New York Times bestseller.
Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation,...
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
| Author | Jonathan Kozol |
| ISBN | 0060974990 |
Two cases of mothers lying about where they reside in order to get their young children into better school districts have made news recently. In Ohio in January, Kelley Williams-Bolar was sentenced to 10 days in county jail and three years probation for enrolling her children in the Copley-Fairlawn...
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
| Author | Ken Liu |
| ISBN | 1481442546 |
A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.
With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1420927957 |
Ghosts is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. Ghosts is a scathing indictment of Victorian society in which Ibsen refutes the notion that if one simply fulfills one's duty...
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
| Author | Linda Tirado |
| ISBN | 0399171983 |
We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and...
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing.
In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly captures...
The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side
| Author | Damien Lewis |
| ISBN | 1476739145 |
An instant hit in the UK, this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight missions, and survived everything from crash-landings to parachute bailouts; ultimately saving the life of his owner and dearest friend.
In the...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0802128106 |
In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those seeds and exposing...
