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The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

Jim Morris - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the lawyer who sought justice on their behalf, and the shameful lack of protection our society affords all workers. A gripping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action and Toms River. Working...
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Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

Benjamin Herold - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools. Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son....
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Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Michele Norris - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.. The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Story. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging...
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No Ordinary Dog: My Partner from the SEAL Teams to the Bin Laden Raid

Will Chesney - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERNo Ordinary Dog is the powerful true story of a SEAL Team Operator and military dog handler, and the dog that saved his life. Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden's compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo,...
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Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

David Mamet - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top - a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980...
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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There

Garrett M. Graff - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Pulitzer Prize finalist for history Watergate, comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government's decades-long quest to solve one of humanity's greatest...
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GRE Prep Plus 2024-2025 - Updated for the New GRE (Kaplan Test Prep)

Kaplan Test Prep - Kaplan Test Prep
Format: Paperback

Kaplan's GRE Prep Plus 2024-2025 guides you through the GRE step-by-step, with expert strategies, essential content review, and five online practice tests. Get an advantage on test day with our proven test-taking strategies, math skills review, and one-year access to online practice...
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Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide

Stephen Fishman J.D. - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Maximize your tax deductions Rental real estate provides more tax benefits than almost any other investment. If you own residential rental property, Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide is an indispensable guide, focusing exclusively on IRS rules and deductions for landlords. This book...
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Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

Rachel Slade - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

A moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why our nation depends on it, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically. * From the best-selling...
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Gender in the Ancient Near East

Stephanie Budin - Routledge
Format: Paperback

Gender in the Ancient Near East is a wide-ranging study through text and art that presents our current understanding of gender constructs in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, and the Levant, and incorporates current trends in gender theory. Budin begins with definitions of sex and gender...
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