New Listings This Week
New in Shopify this week, we're focusing on Adult Nonfiction and History books. When Laura Coates, author of Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness, joined the Department of Justice as a prosecutor, she wanted to advocate for the most vulnerable among us. But she quickly realized that even with the best intentions, “the pursuit of justice creates injustice.” And in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease.
End of Watch: Chicago Police Killed in the Line of Duty, 1853-2006, by Edward M. Burke and Thomas J. O'Gorman, includes over 600 photographs, as well as detailed narratives of each officer and the circumstances involved in their deaths. End of Watch is a very human story that describes the great loyalty and honor emerging in the ordinary lives of extraordinary Chicagoans and gives the reader a broad view of Chicago history for the past 150+ years.
Ravensbrück: Everyday Life in a Women's Concentration Camp 1939-45
by Jack Morrison
Attempting to reconstruct the workings of everyday life in the concentration camp at Ravensbrück, the only camp in the Nazi system designed for women, Morrison examines the prisoners’ social relationships with each other and their overlords; prisoner activities, from bartering to storytelling, from political maneuvering to coping with body lice, and, of course, the kinds of forced labor performed (Ravensbrück was a labor camp, not an extermination camp); and the occurrences of sickness, death, and killing at the camp. The volume is illustrated with drawings by inmates, and photos by the SS.
This book is designed to make it possible for today’s generation of students and general readers to imagine what daily life in a concentration camp may have been like.
New On Shopify!
End of Watch: Chicago Police Killed in the Line of Duty 1853-2006
by Edward M. Burke and Thomas J. O'Gorman
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