Non-Fiction

American Wolf: From Nazi refugee to American Spy. A true story (Holocaust Survivor True Stories)

$20.95

In the summer of 1941, 11-year-old Wolf is growing up amidst the rubble and antisemitism of war-torn Nazi Berlin. Destitute and facing deportation, he must leave behind his sister and travel with his family across a continent entrenched in war. With nothing in hand but expired visas to the US, Wolf and his family must figure out how to sneak aboard the Spanish freighter the Navemar, a ship that would gain its reputation as the “Hell Ship of Death.” But this is only the beginning of Wolf’s saga.American Wolf is a heart-stopping true story full of last-minute rescues, near-death encounters, and survival against untold odds. It is also a story about coming of age, family dysfunction and n...

Audrey Birnbaum

A Marine’s Story “Okay, Buddy, Let’s Go! Hoorah!”: A Marine Sniper Survives Vietnam

Mike lived by the marine sniper mantra: One shot, one kill.

During his time in the jungles of Vietnam, Mike was confronted with having to hunt and kill the enemy and being hunted in return.

Now, for the first time, marine veteran and debut author, Phil Lenser, guides listeners through Mike’s extraordinary final mission. This historical combat thriller reveals to listeners the real experiences of a combat sniper in one of America’s bloodiest wars.

The story carries listeners from assignment preparation to completion and then beyond into the complications when things went wrong.

Sit in as two marines talk out what happened and how Mike's faith has helped him live with his survival.

Phil Lenser

Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality

$14.99

The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington.When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country’s most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but if newly freed citizens were condemned to live...

Brian Kilmeade

Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

$15.99

Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of four core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown. Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a bridge between communism and capitalism, authoritarianism and liberal democracy. “One country, two systems” kept its media free, its courts independent and its protests boisterous, designed also to convince Taiwan of a peaceful solution to Beijing’s desire for reunification.Yet this form...

Shibani Mahtani

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