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Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Rob Henderson - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Other Wes Moore, and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering...
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America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators

Jacob Heilbrunn - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

A leading journalist and public intellectual explains the long, disturbing history behind the American Right's embrace of foreign dictators, from Kaiser Wilhelm and Mussolini to Putin and Orban. Why do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous...
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti

Jake Johnston - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy...
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Student Success: Foundations of Self-Management

Gian Paolo Roma - State Univ of New York Pr
Format: Paperback

Gian Paolo Roma is Professor and Chair of the Business Programs Department at SUNY Broome Community College, State University of New York.
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The Journey's End: An Investigation of Death and Dying In Modern America

MichaelD Connelly - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, this compassionate work helps individuals develop a more accepting view of dying while teaching them what to expect and how to navigate the healthcare system at the end of life.In elderhood, the health care system has a narrow view of how to provide...
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Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

Patrick Bet-David - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

What's the difference between your competitor and your enemy?. You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses.. But your enemies are a whole other matter. They're the haters and the doubters...
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They're Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd

Liz Collin - Paper Birch Publishing
Format: Paperback

The book the media and the Left don't want you to read.... Award-winning investigative journalist Liz Collin sets the record straight. She uncovers what really happened on a street in Minneapolis that set off the riots, the demands to defund the police, and the skyrocketing crime across...
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2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed

Eric Klinenberg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg. "A gripping, deeply moving account of a signal year in modern history, told through...
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Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s

Sarah Ditum - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover

A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing...
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Shannon Reed - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist. We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass...
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