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The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America
Daniel Connolly · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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In a green town in the middle of America, a bright 18-year-old Hispanic student named Isaias Ramos sets out on the journey to college. Isaias, who passed a prestigious national calculus test as a junior and leads the quiz bowl team, is the hope of Kingsbury High in Memphis, a school... |
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Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Laura Jane Grace · Hachette Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
"If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman/ My mother once told me she would have named me Laura/ I would grow up to be strong and beautiful like her."-The Ocean
A searing account of her search for identity and true self, TRANNY reveals... |
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The Plots Against Hitler
Danny Orbach · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 432
Format: Print book |
A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous efforts to assassinate Adolf Hitler
In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory,... |
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The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women
Edward Lewis · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Essence magazine is the most popular, well respected, and largest circulated black women’s magazine in history. Largely unknown is the remarkable story of what it took to earn that distinction.The Man from Essence depicts with candor and insight how Edward Lewis, CEO and publisher... |
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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
Amy Gary · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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For decades children and their parents around the world have cuddled together to read Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. While the lulling words of these stories have formed nighttime rituals for millions, few know that these classic works were part of a publishing revolution led by Margaret... |
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The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary
Ê»ĀtÌ£if Abū Sayf · Beacon Press
Pages: 258
Format: Print book |
An ordinary Gazan's chronicle of the struggle to survive during Israel's 2014 invasion of Gaza
The Drone Eats with Me is an unforgettable rendering of everyday civilian life shattered by the realities of twenty-first-century warfare. Israel's 2014 invasion of Gaza lasted... |
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32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line
Eric Ripert · Random House
Pages: 247
Format: Print book |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Hailed by Anthony Bourdain as "heartbreaking, horrifying, poignant, and inspiring," 32 Yolks is the brave and affecting coming-of-age story about the making of a French chef, from the culinary icon behind the renowned New York City... |
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Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Walter R. Borneman · Random House
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In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda:... |
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Lindy West · Hachette Books
Pages: 260
Format: Print book |
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Hailed by Lena Dunham as an "essential (and hilarious) voice for women," Lindy West is ferociously witty and outspoken, tackling topics as varied as pop culture, social justice and body image. Her empowering work has garnered a coast-to-coast audience that eagerly awaits SHRILL,... |
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Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer
Katherine Ramsland PhD · Foreedge
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover |
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In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself "B.T.K."... |
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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
Larry Tye · Random House
Pages: 608
Format: Print book |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family.
History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last... |
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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Ken Burns · Knopf; MTI edition
Format: Hardcover |
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New York Times Bestseller A vivid and personal portrait of Americas greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation, which expands on the hugely acclaimed seven-part PBS documentary series, bringing readers even deeper into these extraordinary leaders lives  With 796 photographs,... |
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Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace
Jim Newton · Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Leon Panetta's first career, beginning as an army intelligence officer and including 16 years in the House of Representatives, lasted thirty-five years and culminated in his role as Clinton's budget czar and White House chief of staff. He then "retired" to establish the Panetta... |
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Charlemagne
Johannes Fried · Harvard University Press
Pages: 688
Format: Print book |
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When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating... |
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Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction
Gabrielle Selz · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Awarded the 2015 Best Memoir from The American Society of Journalists and Authors Luminous and revealing, a daughter's memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father. In 1958, soon after Gabrielle Selz was born, she, her parents and her sister moved to New York, where her father,... |
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