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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

Urbina, Ian · Knopf
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international...
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Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege

Mike Thomson · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege.Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged...
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Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls

Goldberg, Carrie · Plume
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists - one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off - and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution. "We are all a moment...
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The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table

Harts, Minda · Seal Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Lean In for women of color: A no-BS look at the odds stacked against women of color in professional settings, from the wage gap to biases and micro-aggressions, with actionable takeawaysThe Memo is the much-needed career advice guide for women of color specifically, finally ending the one-size-fits-all...
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Keep the Wretches in Order: America's Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the IWW

Strang, Dean · University of Wisconsin Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors would deputize strikebreakers or call out the state militia, usually at the bidding of employers. When the United States entered the conflict in 1917,...
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I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis

Everett, Jeremy K. · Brazos Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Hunger is one of the most significant issues in America. One in eight Americans struggles with hunger, and more than thirteen million children live in food insecure homes. As Christians we are called to address the suffering of the hungry and poor: "For I was hungry, and you gave me food...
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Plumbing 1-2-3

The Home Depot · The Home Depot
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Install, upgrade, repair, and maintain your home's plumbing system with more than 90 projects found in The Home Depot's (R) Plumbing 1-2-3, published by Meredith (R) Books.
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

Karen Abbott · Crown
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy"Gatsby-era noir at its best." - Erik LarsonIn the early...
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Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business

Erikson, Thomas · St. Martin's Essentials
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A runaway bestseller in Sweden that has sold more than a million copies worldwide, Surrounded by Idiots shares a simple, revolutionary method of understanding the people around you that will change how you interact with everyone from your coworkers to your spouse. Author Thomas Erikson...
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Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court

Hemingway, Mollie · 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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