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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why
Sady Doyle · Melville House
Pages: 297
Format: Print book
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She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself.... |
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Joe Biden · Flatiron Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what... |
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
D D'SOUZA · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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"Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." - RUSH LIMBAUGHThe explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York... |
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The Lessons of Ubuntu: How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America
Mark Mathabane · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
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Mark Mathabane touched the hearts of millions with his sensational memoir, Kaffir Boy,. A book highly-praised by Oprah and President Clinton for inspiring hope, Kaffir Boy described the effects of South Africa's system of legalized racism and oppression on black lives in vivid prose. The book... |
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Fonville Winans' Louisiana: Politics, People, and Places
Cyril E Vetter · LSU Press
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover
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This remarkable book, first published twenty years ago, continues to offer a singular window into the customs, politics, and places of twentieth-century Louisiana. This dazzling collection of landscapes and portraits drawn from the lifework of internationally renowned photographer Fonville... |
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
CATHRYN JAKOBSON RAMIN · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm,... |
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The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism?and How Trump Can Drain It
ERIC BOLLING · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again. In The Swamp, bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an infuriating, amusing,... |
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Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring
Andrew Lownie · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of "The Cambridge Spies" -- Maclean, Philby, Blunt -- brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless... |
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Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder
Amy Knight · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since Vladamir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin's reign that even... |
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
GILBERT KING · Riverhead Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove, a gripping story of sex, race, class, corruption, and the arc of justice twisted and bent straight again in the Florida citrus groves.A small town. A big secret.In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron... |
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The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
David Callahan · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work... |
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The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat
Charlie Crist · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 352
Format: Book
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Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida, spent years in the party's inner circle. In this no-holds-barred memoir, he shows why he switched sides and became a Democrat.After serving as a Republican governor - one who was on the short list for the vice presidency in 2008... |
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