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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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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty

Jonathan Morduch · Princeton University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right, this ideal...
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein · Liveright
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William...
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Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the WorldÆs Most Secretive Nation

DANIEL TUDOR · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic...
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Broken But Unbowed

Greg Abbott · Threshold Editions
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

Texas governor and rising star in the Republican Party one of the first prominent politicians to govern from a wheelchair since Franklin D. Roosevelt Governor Greg Abbott pens his deeply personal and inspiring life story and proposes a plan to restore America to greatness in what Newt Gingrich...
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The Making of a Dream: How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American

LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights - the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society's attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling...
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Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

Heidi Boghosian · City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback

"Everyone of us is under the omniscient magnifying glass of the government and corporate spies. . . . How do we respond to this smog of surveillance? Start by reading Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance by Heidi Boghosian"--Bill...
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The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security

Ann Hagedorn · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The urgent truth about the privatization of America's national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading - and why we should be concerned.Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs) ; there were only...
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

BENJAMIN CARTER HETT · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happenWhy did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf...
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Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education

Jennifer De Leon · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback

College can be a complex time for Latinas, who are traditionally expected to leave home when they get married. In her essay "Only Daughter," author Sandra Cisneros remarks, "After four years in college and two more in graduate school, and still no husband, my father shakes...
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Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever

PATRICK J BUCHANAN · Crown Forum
Pages: 436
Format: Hardcover

From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan - speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon - tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural...
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad

Del Quentin Wilber · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives -- does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good...
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The making of Asian America : a history

Erika Lee · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 519

"The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika...
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No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state

Glenn Greenwald · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pages: 259
Format: Print book

Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald provides an in-depth look into the National Security Agency scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself,...
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Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond

Marc Lamont Hill · Atria Books
Pages: 250
Format: Print book

"An impassioned analysis of headline-making cases ... .Timely, controversial, and bound to stir already heated discussion." - Kirkus Reviews "A thought-provoking and important analysis of oppression, recommended for those seeking clarity on current events." - Library...
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