Division Street: America
10 best books like Division Street: America (Studs Terkel): The Empathy Exams, How Long 'til Black Future Month?, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Next, The Other Americans, My Son's Story, Don't Call Us Dead, The Man With the Golden Arm, Chicago: City on the Make
| Author | Leslie Jamison |
| ISBN | 1555976719 |
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection; winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.
Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and...
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
| Author | N.K. Jemisin |
| ISBN | 0316491349 |
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian...
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
| Author | Alexandra Horowitz |
| ISBN | 1416583408 |
The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.
Temple Grandin meets Stephen Pinker...
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...
| Author | Michael Crichton |
| ISBN | 0060872985 |
Welcome to our genetic world.Fast, furious, and out of control.This is not the world of the future --- it's the world right now.Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is...
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant–at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Late one...
Will, playing truant, bumps into his father with a white woman at a movie theater. A narrative unfolds of reflections enmeshed with aggressive personal bitterness and the political upheaval of the times in South Africa. Nadine Gordimer’s 'My Son’s Story' becomes the story of the son, the father,...
| Author | Danez Smith |
| ISBN | 1555977855 |
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten...
| Author | Nelson Algren |
| ISBN | 1583220089 |
Nelson Algren's devastating of that savage, subterranean world go gamblers, junkies, alcoholics, prostitutes, thieves, and degenerates remains unsurpassed as an authentic portrait of human depravity.
Only a master like Algren could create such a passionate and dramatic novel of so...
| Author | Nelson Algren |
| ISBN | 0226013855 |
This 50th anniversary edition has been newly annotated by David Schmittgens and Bill Savage with explanations for everything from Chicago history to slang to what the Black Sox scandal was and why it mattered.
In this slender classic ... Algren tells us all we need to know about passion, heaven,...
Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination—Moscow.
In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and...
The Reign of the Kingfisher
| Author | T.J. Martinson |
| ISBN | 1250170214 |
Thirty years ago a superhero tried to save Chicago. Now the city is again under siege, in this gritty, suspenseful, and beautifully written novel from award-winning debut author T.J. Martinson.
Somewhere in Chicago, a roomful of people have been taken hostage. The hostages will be killed...
Selected Works, Deluxe Edition
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0517053586 |
The collected tales of America’s foremost master of mystery and the macabre in one handsome volume - - 67 tales and 30 poems in all. You’ll find such classic tales as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum and many, many more....
The Saint of Wolves and Butchers
A mysterious stranger. A deadly task. A dark secret hidden for sixty years...
When State Trooper Skottie Foster moves back home to rural Kansas, she's hoping for a new start. But then a chance encounter on a snowy highway changes everything.
Travis Roan is a Nazi hunter, and he needs...
