American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
10 best books like American Passage: The History of Ellis Island (Vincent J. Cannato): How to Be an Antiracist, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Quichotte, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait, Wave, The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship, The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
| Author | Ibram X. Kendi |
| ISBN | 0525509283 |
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
| Author | Richard Rothstein |
| ISBN | 1631492853 |
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the...
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes...
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0415908086 |
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for...
Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait
| Author | Alison Weir |
| ISBN | 1101966572 |
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, as a grieving king chooses a bride sight unseen in the fourth novel in the epic and intrigue-filled Six Tudor Queens series.
Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry...
| Author | Sonali Deraniyagala |
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since....
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
| Author | Rich Cohen |
| ISBN | 0374299277 |
A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of Israel is Real and
Sweet and Low
When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest,...
| Author | Ben Fountain |
| ISBN | 0060885599 |
Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk is a razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq. It explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad.
Ben Fountain’s remarkable debut novel follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through...
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
In Let’s Take the Long Walk Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell has written a powerful and moving memoir about her coming-of-age in mid-life, and her extraordinary friendship with the author of Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp—fellow writers, AA members, dog lovers, and...
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
| Author | Karen Abbott |
| ISBN | 0451498623 |
The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant...
| Author | Tamara Ireland Stone |
| ISBN | 1484784979 |
Allie Navarro can't wait to show her best friends the app she built at CodeGirls summer camp. CLICK'D pairs users based on common interests and sends them on a fun (and occasionally rule-breaking) scavenger hunt to find each other. And it's a hit. By the second day of school, everyone is talking about...
