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Dynamic Dames: 50 Leading Ladies Who Made History

de Forest, Sloan · Running Press Adult
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

Celebrate 50 of the most empowering and unforgettable female characters ever to grace the screen, as well as the artists who brought them to vibrant life!From Scarlett O'Hara to Thelma and Louise to Wonder Woman, strong women have not only lit up the screen, they've inspired and fired...
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My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son's Search For Home

Dougherty, Michael Brendan · Sentinel
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

National Review senior writer Michael Brendan Dougherty delivers a meditation on belonging, fatherhood, and nationalism, through a series of letters to his estranged Irish father.The child of an Irish man and an Irish-American woman who split up before he was born, Michael Brendan Dougherty...
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane

Guendelsberger, Emily · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The bitingly funny, eye-opening story of a college-educated young professional who finds work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly laborAfter the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center...
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American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

Alberta, Tim · Harper
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider's look at the making of the modern Republican Party - how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

David Maraniss · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In a riveting book with powerful resonance today, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet affirming story of his family's ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication.Elliott...
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Montell, Amanda · Harper Wave
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them."I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell's brilliance...
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The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

Clarke, Richard A. · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An urgent new warning from two bestselling security experts--and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone. "In the battle raging between offense...
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Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution

Jennifer Block · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women's healthcare in the U.S. American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining...
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Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court

Mollie Hemingway · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access - The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway and Judicial Crisis Network senior counsel Carrie Severino - reveal what really happened and explore...
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Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution

Myron Magnet · Encounter Books
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover

When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the Framers had written -- the one that had established a federal government manned by the people's own elected representatives, charged with...
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