Yeonmi Park: «I hope my book will
shine a light on the
darkest place
in the
world» Yeonmi Park was born
in the North Korean city of Hyesan, close to the Chinese border, and brought up
in the brutal and paranoid atmosphere of the Kim dictatorships.
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden Grant by Ron Chernow Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town
in the American West by Tom Clavin We Were Eight Years
in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta - Nehisi Coates The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson Endurance: A Year
in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews The American Spirit: Who We Are & What We Stand For by David McCullough Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the
World by Eric Metaxas The Radium Girls: The
Dark Story of America's
Shining Women by Kate Moore Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of
World War II by Liza Mundy Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem by Bill Nye Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977 — 2002 by David Sedaris Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated (B&N Exclusive Edition) by Shea Serrano Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan Astrophysics for People
in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union
I hate to see authors feeling
in the
dark about these things, which is why I aim to build an archive right here to help
shine a light into the sometimes mysterious workings of the publishing
world.
Panel Discussion on Women During Wartime Three authors talked about their books on women
in the military: The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of
World War II and The Radium Girls: The
Dark Story of America's
Shining Women Karen Williams moderated.