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New Titles - Politics
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer · Riverhead Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian... |
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Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II
Mark Simmons · Casemate
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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This book tells the story of the various Allied operations and schemes instigated to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII, which included the widespread bribery of high ranking Spanish officials and the duplicity of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr.Ian Fleming and Alan Hillgarth... |
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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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You Welcomed Me: Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us
Kent Annan · IVP Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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"Wait, Dad. Are we for them or against them?" Kent Annan was talking with his eight-year-old son about the immigrant and refugee crises around the world. His son's question, innocent enough in the moment, is writ large across our society today. How we answer it, Annan says,... |
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
KAMALA HARRIS · Penguin Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking... |
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Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
Sunil S. Amrith · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its watersAsia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers,... |
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence... |
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