Homer.
22) La Ilíada: Troya
Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is a moving tribute to love, from the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning memoir Rocket Boys—the basis of the movie October Sky.
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great
...31) The Emancipatrix
Shining a light on the deadly health consequences of incarceration.
Finalist in the PROSE Award for Best Book in Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology by the Association of American Publishers
Kalief Browder was 16 when he was arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack. Unable to raise bail and unwilling to plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit, Browder spent three years in New York's infamous Rikers Island
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