"A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the LGBT, or queer, experience, while simultaneously arguing that LGBT people not only shaped but were pivotal in creating our country. Using numerous primary documents and literature, as well as social histories, Bronski's book takes the reader through the centuries--from Columbus' arrival and the brutal treatment the Native peoples...

"Even funnier...and far more bizarre than the stories comedians tell onstage are the stories they tell each other: tales of driving hundreds of miles to Club Middle of Nowhere to make $50.00...of being attacked by homicidal audiences...of being stiffed by chiseling club owners, ingesting mass quantities of alcohol and narcotics, and staving off loneliness through dizzying sexual excess."

"Filled with dry humor, sharp wit, and motherly care, Karen Duffy offers timeless pearls of wisdom. When she was diagnosed with a life-threatening neurological disease, she decided that to survive, she had to learn to laugh. In adulthood and motherhood, she has found that she has earned more than her fair share of wisdom and wisecracks to offer her teenage son. These are her stories, advice, and insights that have helped her embrace all that her whirlwind...

One day back in 2003, Ken Jennings and his college buddy Earl did what hundreds of thousands of people had done before; they auditioned for Jeopardy! Two years, 75 games, 2,642 correct answers, and over $2.5 million in winnings later, Ken Jennings emerged as trivia's undisputed king. Brainiac traces his rise from anonymous computer programmer to nerd folk icon.

"A new history of the Civil Rights Movement with an emphasis on its nonviolent use of military tactics and strategy"--