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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

Nicholas D. Kristof · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles...
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Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India

Amana Fontanella-Khan · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of Indias women. In Uttar Pradesh—known as the badlands of India—a womans life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after fleeing her service in the home...
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Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama

Stephen Sestanovich · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover

From a writer with long and high-level experience in the U.S. government, a startling and provocative assessment of America's global dominance. Maximalist puts the history of our foreign policy in an unexpected new light, while drawing fresh, compelling lessons for the present and future....
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Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America

Bruce Barcott · Time Home Entertainment
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The legalization of marijuana is the next great reversal of history. Perhaps the most demonized substance in America, scientifically known as Cannabis sativa, simply a very fast growing herb, thrived underground as the nation's most popular illegal drug. Now the tide has shifted: In 1996...
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Timothy Snyder · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 462
Format: Print book

A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first....
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The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem

Ethan Gutmann · Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of China's organ transplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong.Mass murder is alive and well. That is the stark conclusion of this comprehensive investigation...
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Matt Taibbi · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime...
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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America

Ai-jen Poo · The New Press, 2015. Â2015
Pages: 229
Format: Print book

By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders....
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Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian

Richard Aldous · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The first major biography of preeminent historian and intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a defining figure in Kennedy's White House.Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007) , known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy -- and the myth of Camelot -- blazed an extraordinary...
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Ratf**ked: How the Democrats Won the Presidency But Lost America

David Daley · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 257
Format: Print book

The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned,...
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Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art

Virginia Heffernan · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television, Virginia Heffernan (called one of the "best living writers of English prose") reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet.Since its inception, the Internet has morphed from merely an extension...
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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend

Meryl Gordon · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion.
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Real American: A Memoir

JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America.Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly...
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Beating Obamacare: Your Handbook for the New Healthcare Law

Betsy McCaughey · Regnery Publishing; First edition
Format: Paperback

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been a political football for years now, but as its provisions start going into effect, theres still precious little information available on how it will impact you, your family, and your pocketbook. This 2,572 page document, nearly unreadable,...
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You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism

Alida Nugent · Plume Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

The author of Don't Worry, It Gets Worse takes on the F-word Alida Nugent's first book, Don't Worry, It Gets Worse, received terrific reviews, and her self-deprecating "everygirl" approach continues to win the Internet-savvy writer and blogger new fans. Now, she takes...
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