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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."While the gap between upper middle-class... |
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Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
Jeremy N. Smith · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker - a woman known only as Alien. When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien was quickly drawn to the school's tradition of high?risk physical... |
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Henry's Men: And the Men Who Made Him
Tracy Borman · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry's life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted... |
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The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
Tommy Tomlinson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Roxane Gay's Hunger, a searing, honest, and candid exploration of what it's like to live as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who decided he had to change his life as he neared the age of fifty weighing in at 460 pounds.When he was almost... |
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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
Andrew S. Curran · Other Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who, along with Voltaire and Rousseau, helped build the foundations of the modern world.Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence.... |
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Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
Stephen Koch · Counterpoint
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen-year-old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti-Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event of the Holocaust After learning about Nazi persecution of his family, Herschel Grynszpan... |
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Queen of the World: Elizabeth II: Sovereign and Stateswoman
Robert Hardman · Pegasus Books
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover
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Written by renowned royal biographer, Robert Hardman, and with privileged access to the Royal Family and the Royal Household, this is a brilliant new portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it.On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from... |
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