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Marrying high drama with deep archival research, Master Slave Husband Wife is the first work of narrative nonfiction about Ellen and William Craft, an enslaved couple who fled bondage in daring disguise, with Ellen passing as a disabled white master and William posing as his slave.

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The Compton Cowboys is a story about trauma and transformation, race and identity, compassion and belonging in one of the most stigmatized cities in America. Drawing on a year-long immersion with a group of friends who choose horses over gangs and violence, and who struggle to keep their ranch from going under, Walter Thompson-Hernández pushes back against stereotypes to reveal an urban community in complexity, tragedy, and rebirth.
 

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The Mountain in the Burning Sky chronicles the early pioneering history of smokejumpers — elite aerial wilderness firefighters — and their later involvement in covert CIA missions throughout the Cold War. Recruited largely from rural Montana, a small band of farmhands, rodeo cowboys, and woodsmen went on to play crucial roles in the United States’ most significant clandestine operations around the world — including China, Tibet, India, the Congo, Cuba, Vietnam, and especially the CIA’s fifteen-year so-called “Secret War” in Laos.

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A story about a family's immigrant optimism crashing into reality, Concepcion reveals the American mythologies that lured people from countries damaged by US foreign policies and the nation's ongoing internal fight between the principles of inclusion and white supremacy.
 

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Seek You: Essays on American Loneliness explores the crisis of loneliness through text and image, examining isolation through the lenses of gender, violence, media, technology, science, and art. 
 

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The Call of Empire is the first complete account of a formative event in American history. In the fall of 1897, a band of US diplomats and journalists conspired to help a young leader of the Cuban independence movement escape from a Spanish prison, smuggling her to the United States to rally the public for war with Spain. Based on thousands of previously undiscovered documents, it reveals the key figures in a conspiracy that galvanized public support for the war that made the United States a global power.