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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience

Hillary Rodham Clinton · Wheeler Publishing Large Print
Pages: 754
Format: Hardcover

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your...
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Ronan Farrow · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story...
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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation

Andrew Marantz · Viking
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Trenchant and intelligent." --The New York TimesA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA New York Times Notable Book of 2019From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free...
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Start by Believing: Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster

John Barr · Hachette Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the Peabody Award-winning ESPN journalists, the definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history. For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to doctor for America's Olympians while treating countless...
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Four-Year Colleges 2020

Peterson's · Peterson's
Pages: 1712
Format: Paperback

Peterson's® Four-Year Colleges 2020 is a valuable resource that includes information on every accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the U.S. and Canada, more than 2,500 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel...
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Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World

David Owen · Riverhead Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The surprising science of hearing and the remarkable technologies that can help us hear betterOur sense of hearing makes it easy to connect with the world and the people around us. The human system for processing sound is a biological marvel, an intricate assembly of delicate membranes,...
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In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

Jack Goldsmith · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O'Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa's disappearance...
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Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film

Robert P. Kolker · Oxford University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using the Stanley Kubrick Archive...
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Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump

Allison Stanger · Yale University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A magisterial exploration of whistleblowing in America, from the Revolutionary War to the Trump era Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital...
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Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

Minter, Adam · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions.Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local...
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