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Jane Doe January : my twenty-year search for truth and justice
Emily Winslow · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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In the vein of Alice Sebold s Lucky, comes a compelling, real-life crime mystery and gripping memoir of the cold case prosecution of a serial rapist, told by one of his victims. On the morning of September 12, 2013, a fugitive task force arrested Arthur Fryar at hisapartment in Brooklyn.... |
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Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word
Matthew Battles · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover |
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A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness.... |
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Admission Assessment Exam Review, 4e
Tina Cuellar · Elsevier Inc.
Pages: 184
Format: Print book |
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Passing your admission assessment exam is the first step on the journey to becoming a successful health professional - make sure you're prepared with Admission Assessment Exam Review, 4th Edition! From the testing experts at HESI, this user-friendly guide walks you through the topics... |
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Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business
Eden Collinsworth · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex - and ethically flexible - age. To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders... |
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
Laura Caldwell · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions. Long thought to be statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, wrongful convictions -- we are just beginning to learn... |
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The Conservative Case for Trump
Phyllis Schlafly · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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From Phyllis Schlafly, the woman whose celebrated classic A Choice Not An Echo (over 3 million copies sold) upended the 1964 Republican Convention, comes a persuasive new argument for a surprising conservative choice: Donald Trump.For the first time since 1980, a significant number of Republicans... |
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In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
Michael Meyer · Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover |
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In the tradition of In Patagonia and Great Plains, Michael Meyers In Manchuria is a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of Chinas legendary northeast territory. For three years, Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy · Little
Pages: 420
Format: Print book |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War
Joseph Wheelan · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Dramatic developments unfolded during the first months of 1865 that brought America's bloody Civil War to a swift climax.As the Confederacy crumbled under the Union army's relentless "hammering," Federal armies marched on the Rebels' remaining bastions in Alabama,... |
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Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black: Thirteen Critical Essays
April Kalogeropoulos Householder · McFarland & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix's most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. Academic conferences now routinely feature panels discussing the show, and the book on which... |
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A Feminist in the White House: Midge Costanza, the Carter Years, and America's Culture Wars
Doreen J Mattingly · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book |
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A feminist, an outspoken activist, a woman without a college education, Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. Yet in 1977 she became the first female Assistant to the President for Public Liaison under Jimmy Carter, emerging as a prominent focal point of the American... |
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Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors
George W. Bush · Crown/Archetype
Pages: 192
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A vibrant collection of oil paintings and stories by President George W. Bush honoring the sacrifice and courage of America's military veterans. With Forewords by former First Lady Laura Bush and General Peter Pace, 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Growing... |
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