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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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Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime

Kate Fazzini · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Kingdom of Lies is a brilliant and bold debut, as full of suspense as the best crime thrillers." -- Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author of Blood Oath In the tradition of Michael Lewis and Tom Wolfe, a fascinating and frightening behind-the-scenes look at the interconnected...
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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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Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa

Akemi Johnson · The New Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip, and sexy. I admire it for its ferocity, style, and vigor. A wonderful book." - Anthony Swofford, author of JarheadA beautifully written examination...
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The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump

Wehner, Peter · HarperOne
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times opinion writer, media commentator, outspoken Republican and Christian critic of the Trump presidency offers a spirited defense of politics and its virtuous and critical role in maintaining our democracy and what we must do to save it before it is too late. "Any nation...
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Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff

Anthony McCann · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

An "epic exploration" of the 2016 right-wing Oregon Occupation-"an excellent microcosm by which we might better understand our difficult national history and distressing political moment" (Maggie Nelson) .In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors...
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Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today

James M. Banner · The New Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

"A whole book devoted exclusively to the misconduct of American presidents and their responses to charges of misconduct is without precedent." - from the introduction to the 1974 edition by C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historianThe historic 1974 report for the House...
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Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

Sesay, Isha · Dey Street Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The first definitive account of Boko Haram's abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, their years in captivity, and why this story still matters - by celebrated international journalist Isha Sesay. The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014 made global headlines. From poor...
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Final Flight Final Fight: My Grandmother, the Wasp, and Arlington National Cemetery

Erin Miller · 4336 Press, LLC
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover

When Arlington National Cemetery refused to accept my grandmother's last request to be laid to rest there, I refused to let her legacy as a veteran die along with her. My grandmother, Elaine Danforth Harmon, flew as a pilot with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of World...
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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto

Mehta, Suketu · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? In This Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu...
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