There Are No Children Here
by Alex Kotlowitz | 
The Long Haul
by Myles Horton |
Great Books
by David Denby | 
Dangerous Minds
by LouAnne Johnson | 
Hunger of Memory
by Richard Rodriguez |
Book Girl
by Sarah Clarkson | 
The Other Side of the Dale
by Gervase Phinn | 
P.S. Your Not Listening
by Eleanor Craig | 
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi | 
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom | 
Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah | 
Educated
by Tara Westover | 
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls | 
Happy, Happy, Happy
by Phil Robertson | 
Etched in Sand
by Regina Calcaterra | 
Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder | 
Gifted Hands
by Ben Carson | 
The Girl with Seven Names
by Hyeonseo Lee | 
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion | 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
by Jean-Dominique Bauby |
Through two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, and now this powerful book, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have made it their mission to be loud voices from one of this country's darkest places, Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project. Set against the stunning photographs of a talented young photographer from the projects, Our America evokes the unforgiving world of these two amazing young men, and their struggle to survive unrelenting tragedy. With a gift for clear-eyed journalism, they tell their own stories and others, including that of the death of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was dropped to his death from the fourteenth floor of an Ida B. Wells apartment building by two other little boys.