Tag: Nonfiction
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White Hot Hate

The true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town’s immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it.
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The Best We Could Do

An intimate debut graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam.
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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, & Child Removal in America

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children―and a searing indictment of the American foster care system.
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We Were Once a Family

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children―and a searing indictment of the American foster care system.
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The Woman They Could Not Silence

The story of Elizabeth Packard, a woman who history has forgotten, but whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women’s rights and exposed injustices.
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30 Nonfiction Recommendations for Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month, a list of nonfiction books that tell women’s stories or women as a gender and group of people.
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Newsroom Confidential

Margaret Sullivan discusses her life as a journalist and the struggle of the press to save itself and American democracy in this memoir and manifesto.
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Black Women Will Save the World

In this celebration of Black women’s resilience and unheralded strength, White House correspondent April Ryan reflects on Black women’s unprecedent role in American history and upholding democracy.
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Under the Banner of Heaven

A multi-layered work of investigative journalism that explores a savage double murder within one of America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities.
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

A paradigm-shifting report of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society’s most ethically troubling jobs.