Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
10 best books like Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition (Karen Blumenthal): Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart, The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery, Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March, Awkward Family Pet Photos, The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum, Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II, Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 1897299214 |
Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. In early 2001 cartoonist Guy Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortress-like country. While living in the nation's capital...
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375841989 |
From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America's most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart.
In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back and forth between Amelia's...
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
| Author | Steve Sheinkin |
| ISBN | 1596434864 |
Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle...
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
| Author | Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
| ISBN | 0544313674 |
What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged?
With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial...
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 0374313229 |
“When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’” – Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white...
| Author | Cynthia Levinson |
| ISBN | 1561456276 |
We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi's and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s precept to fill the jails, they succeeded...
| Author | Mike Bender |
| ISBN | 0307888126 |
The authors of the New York Times bestseller Awkward Family Photos are back with a hilarious tribute to the unbreakable and sometimes uncomfortable bond between people and their pets.
There are few things more rewarding than having a pet. They love us unconditionally, shower us with attention,...
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375841970 |
Discover the true story of P.T. Barnum, the man who created the world-famous Barnum & Bailey Circus, as featured in the movie The Greatest Showman!
The award-winning author of The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, Amelia Lost, and Our Eleanor brings us the larger-than-life...
| Author | Martin W. Sandler |
| ISBN | 0802722784 |
While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Culling information from extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories with Japanese American survivors of...
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 0618574921 |
When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies...
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0670011878 |
During her unparalleled fifty-year history, Barbie has been the doll that some people love-and some people love to hate. There's no question she's influenced generations, but to what end? Acclaimed nonfiction author Tanya Lee Stone takes an unbiased look at how Barbie became the icon that she is,...
