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

Hillary Rodham Clinton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
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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Music: A Subversive History

Gioia, Ted · Basic Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A preeminent music historian and critic presents a global history of music from the bottom upHistories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted...
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No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America

Collins, Gail · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by the beloved New York Times columnist."You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad--for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated...
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Women: The National Geographic Image Collection

National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

This powerful photography collection, drawn from the celebrated National Geographic archive, reveals the lives of women from around the globe, accompanied by revelatory new interviews and portraits of contemporary trailblazers including Oprah Winfrey, Jane Goodall, and Christiane Amanpour.#MeToo....
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DARK AGENDA: The War to Destroy Christian America

Horowitz, David · Dreamscape Media
Format: Hardcover

"Read this disturbing but vital book." -- Tucker Carlson "One of the most intellectually compelling and rational defenses of Christianity's role in America." -- Mike Huckabee "Exposes the intolerance of many atheists toward those who believe in God. As a Jewish...
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Hope Never Fear: A Personal Portrait of the Obamas

Callie Shell · Chronicle Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning photographer Callie Shell presents an intimate portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama and the guiding principles that defined their time in the White House. While documenting the journey from the Obama's family home in Chicago to the most powerful house in the United States,...
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The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie: Fast Times at Ridgemont High ~ Sixteen Candles ~ Revenge of the Nerds ~ The Karate Kid ~ The Breakfast ... Poets Society ~ and Everything in Between

King, James · Diversion Books
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

A trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks; of Reagan, rap, and Ridgemont High; of MTV, VHS, and "Axel F"; of outsiders, lost boys, and dead poets; of Bill and Ted, Brooke Shields, and the Brat Pack; of three Porky's flicks, two Coreys, and one summer...
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Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America

DeRose, Chris · Regnery History
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A HISTORY BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER "True crime fans will relish this thoughtful look at a murder and its aftermath that riveted a nation." - Publisher's Weekly book review "There may be no two more addicting topics to people right now than politics and true crime. Star...
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Foner, Eric · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation.The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional...
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Man-Made Wonders of the World

DK · DK
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Discover the most incredible man-made wonders, from Stonehenge to Burj Khalifa, with this unparalleled catalog of the most famous and intriguing buildings and monuments created by humans.Manmade Wonders of the World features a range of structures from buildings to monuments, statues, and bridges,...
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