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I Work At A Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

Gina Sheridan · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 157
Format: Paperback

Straight from the library--the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out!From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk. Throughout...
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Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town

Mirta Ojito · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

2014 International Latino Awards FinalistThe true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration   In November 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked...
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Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement & Medical Benefits

Joseph Matthews Attorney · NOLO; 16 edition
Format: Paperback

Maximize your Social Security, SSI, and Medicare benefits and navigate the system with confidence. Everyone wants to get the highest possible retirement and pension income - not to mention the best medical coverage. Turn to Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions to discover the benefits...
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

DAVID MCCULLOUGH · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American principles.Over the course of his distinguished...
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The Wikileaks Files: The World According to Us Empire

Julian Assange · Verso, 2015.
Pages: 614
Format: Print book

Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks: What Cablegate tells us about US foreign policyWhen WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 by releasing 2,325,961 top-secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national leaders, friendly...
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Crapitalism: Liberals Who Make Millions Swiping Your Tax Dollars

Jason Mattera · Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and ambush journalist Jason Mattera sets his sights on his next big target: crony liberals, including Al Gore, Carlos Slim, Harry Reid, and Jay Z, whose riches come at taxpayer expense.From billionaire business tycoons like George Soros and Warren Buffett...
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.

James Carville · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,...
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Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

Diane Ravitch · Knopf; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, whistle-blower extraordinaire The Wall Street Journal, author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System Important and riveting—Library...
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Untitled on HRC

Jonathan Allen · Crown
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat...
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Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

Julia Angwin · Times Books
Format: Hardcover

An inside look at who's watching you, what they know and why it matters. We are being watched.We see online ads from websites we've visited, long after we've moved on to other interests. Our smartphones and cars transmit our location, enabling us to know what's in the neighborhood...
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A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic — and How We Can End It

M.D. Deborah Cohen · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Book

Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding...
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Annual Register of Grant Support 2012: A Directory of Funding Sources

Beverley McDonough · Information Today Inc; 45 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Grant Support Book has details of 2,849 grant support program of government agencies, public and private foundations, corporations, community trust, unions, educational and professional associations, and special interest organications. It covers abroad spectrum of interests from academics...
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In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection

Eve Ensler · Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweeks 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection--to the body, the self, and the worldPlaywright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body--how to talk...
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

ANONYMOUS. · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which...
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Social Security Handbook 2011: Overview of Social Security Programs

Federal Government · Bernan Press

The Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs, 2011 provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws. The Handbook also contains information about related programs administered by agencies...
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