BeanBall by Gene Fehler

         BeanBall is a series of poems that capture the extraordinarily rare journey of Luke "Wizard" Wallace. When He goes to bat at the last inning of his baseball game against rival team from Compton. The Oak Grove fans had never seen what the witnessed happen to Luke. After Kyle Dawkins makes the pitch, it goes out of control and lands Luke in the hospital. Now as Luke is desperately trying to fight for his chance at ever playing baseball again, you begin to follow teachers, family, and friends of Luke. You watch from all points as Luke Wallace survives a fatal accident and overcomes many surgeries.  You grip the story from 25 angles and each of them with emotion and feeling behind each one.

Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover & America in the Age of Lies By Marc Aronson

Master of Deceit focuses on the life of J. Edgar Hoover. Though he is not the founder of the FBI, he is the one that is able to build up the FBI and create it--to his standards. The majority of the book involves J. Edgar Hoover, though not exactly his biography, in America between The late 1890's and early 1970's, adding Historical events, in which J. Edgar Hoover are linked to all of the events. J. Edgar Hoover is the director of the FBI and ultimately named as the ":master of deceit." Not everything is ever what is seemed to be. The FBI is first started off as disorganized and not very strong in force, until J. Edgar Hoover becomes director of the FBI. In this, some riveting and shocking secrets of the FBI are revealed. Even though often seen as the protectors of America, they are holding secrets of their own, all in the way that J. Edgar Hoover had wanted to do so. J. Edgar Hoover, uses deceit and lies, to rise up to power, that makes everybody fear him, and it is all kept hidden in secret, only to be revealed in this book.

Bomb: the Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

 

"Bomb" begins with Otto Hahn discovering nuclear fission in a Uranium atom in Germany. He only split one atom, which released enough energy to make a grain of rice jump, but if there was 50 lbs of Uranium it could -- and would be -- lethal, capable of causing mass destruction. The news spreads quickly, and Germany begins researching how to combine enough of it to make an atomic bomb -- the most dangerous weapon available. The United States learns of this when Albert Einstein sends President Roosevelt a letter, and then FDR assembles a team. This team's job is to beat Germany in building the world's first atomic bomb. Robert Oppenheimer heads this project. They do research at a lab called Los Alamos, located in New Mexico. Oppenheimer hand-picked most of his team at first, but when they were desperate for all the help they could get, he wasn't unable to hand-pick them...and that is where the problems start with the Soviet Union.
Throughout this process, there are Soviet spies whose goals are to relay information back to Soviet Russia so that they would be able to build an atomic bomb as well. It explains some of their meetings, their passwords (to ensure they were meeting with the right person), et cetera. The US and Soviet Union weren't really allies...They both just shared a common enemy.
In the end though, obviously, the United States wins this race. It turns out that Germany was about 2 years behind the United States. Besides this, the Soviet Union recieved all of the research they needed to build their own atomic bomb, thanks to some of the scientists working on the Manhattan Project (another name for the US' atomic bomb research).
But did they really win? This was the catalyst to an arm's race with Russia -- AKA, the Cold War. It's dangerous.
This is "a story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight..."

"And, like it or not, you're in it."