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The Five Wounds: A Novel
Kirstin Valdez Quade · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice.It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus... |
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
Daniel James Brown · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese heritage and the ways of their American homeland. They faced bigotry, yet they believed in their bright futures as American citizens. But within days of Pearl Harbor, the FBI was ransacking... |
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Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories
Nigella Lawson
Format: Hardcover
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"Food, for me, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it, reflect deeply on it, learn from it; it provides comfort, inspiration, meaning, and beauty ... More than just a mantra, 'cook, eat, repeat' is the story of my life." Cook, Eat, Repeat is a delicious... |
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On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed
Format: Hardcover
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The mesmerizing story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history -- told by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native.Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people... |
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
Joshua D. Rothman · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men - who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South - were essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States.In... |
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Stampede: Gold Fever and Human Disaster in the Klondike
Brian Castner · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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The electrifying announcement in 1897 that gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region in remote Alaska was demonically well timed to attract an exodus of economically desperate Americans. Within weeks tens of thousands of them were embarking from western... |
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Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America
Kate Washington · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned... |
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