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Jumping at Shadows
Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismissed with a yawn? Why is an unarmed …
American Furies
In this disturbing yet elegant expos of U.S. penitentiaries and their surrounding communities, Sasha Abramsky shows how American prisons have abandoned their long-held ideal of …
Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar
"Eighty-five years before Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs fought the 'battle of the sexes, ' a Victorian teenager showed what women could do . . . Abramsky] celebrates her as a …
Chaos Comes Calling
A harrowing tale of how polarization threatened to break apart two American communities and how one found a way back while the the other splintered. Donald Trump's November 2016 …
Inside Obama's Brain
The American Way of Poverty
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFifty years after Michael Harrington published his ground-breaking book The Other America , in which he chronicled the lives of people …
Das Haus der zwanzigtausend Bücher
Little Wonder
"e;Masterfully captures the life of this little-known sportswoman, a versatile female athlete comparable to Babe Didrikson Zaharias."e; -Booklist (starred review)Lottie Dod …
The House of Twenty Thousand Books
This is the story of Sasha Abramsky's grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, and of their unique home at 5 Hillway, around the corner from Hampstead Heath.In their semi-detached …
House of Twenty Thousand Books
Named one of Kirkus's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast …