Sacred Ground opens in 1919, during the summer of the Chicago race riot, when infant Black and his family arrive in Chicago from Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the first Great Migration. He recounts in vivid detail his childhood and education in the Black Metropolis of Bronzeville and South Side neighborhoods that make up his "sacred ground." <> Revealing a priceless trove of experiences, memories, ideas, and opinions, Black describes how it felt...

"In her extraordinary graphic novel -- which masterfully incorporates poetry and elements of memoir -- Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park, where, growing up, her soccer team would practice and compete. The park and surrounding town of Fairfax Station Virginia set the landscape for the book, where the narrator regularly encounters spectral visions of wounded soldiers and very real artifacts...

"Diario de Oaxaca is artist Peter Kuper's chronicle of two years living in Oaxaca, Mexico, encountering its modern conflicts against the backdrop of the country's ageless beauty and enduring rhythms. From a town held hostage by soldiers to the miracle of the Monarchs' sanctuary, Kuper renders his experiences in vivid detail, capturing both the light and shadows that define life in Mexico."--Jacket

"Cuando el padre de Reyna Grande deja a su esposa y sus tres hijos atrás en un pueblo de México para hacer el peligroso viaje a través de la frontera a los Estados Unidos, promete que pronto regresará; con el dinero suficiente para construir la casa de sus sueños. Sus promesas se vuelven más difíciles de creer cuando los meses de espera se convierten en años. Cuando se lleva a su esposa para reunirse con él, Reyna y sus hermanos son depositados...

From Robert Mazur, undercover agent and bestselling author of The Infiltrator, comes the riveting true story of grave corruption at the heart of one of the most explosive DEA missions of his career. Three years after undercover agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar's Medelln̕ drug cartel, he reemerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his head, with a new identity for a risky new sting. He was now Robert Baldasare, money launderer and...

Diaries covering Sept. 1837 ("First Impressions of Cambridge") & 1839-1908; ms. autobiography covering years 1821-1866; ms. reminiscences (longest covering years 1824-[1865]); mss. on historical topics, 1876-[190-]--incl. 1876 4th of July oration on Concord history, material relating to Battle of Concord, ms. of Houses, & Owners or Occupants in Concord, 1885,"Old Roads in Concord" (read before CAS in 1889), "The Middlesex Hotel" (1900), "An Old House"...

In this book the author gives readers a harrowing look inside her battle with anorexia and bulimia through pictures and captions.

Stephens was a black reporter for the black newspaper Weekly Anglo-African when the Civil War broke out. He joined the 54th Massachusetts, the first black Union regiment. Promoted to sergeant, he stormed Battery Wagner with his regiment. Surviving the Union defeat, Stephens served with the 54th through the end of the war.

Brimming with news and gossip, intrigue and humor, this is a British journalist's irresistible look at the peculiar charms of American life and turbulent times at Tina Brown's "New Yorker."