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Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
Sowande' M Mustakeem · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Expanding the gaze even more widely, the book centers on how the oceanic transport of human cargoes--known... |
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Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think
Ken Buck · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Lavish parties. Commitee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder.Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO) is blowing the whistle on the real-life House of Cards going on behind the scenes in our nation's capital.... |
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This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren · Henry Holt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The fiery U. S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it
Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time... |
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Here Comes Destructosaurus!
Aaron Reynolds · Chronicle Books Llc
Format: Hardcover
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Watch the unstoppable destructive force of a raging temper tantrum! Tremble at the enormous mess and disrespectful roaring! Despair as no amount of scolding can stem the heedless fury! Someone is heading for a time-out, Mister! Anyone who has witnessed (or been) a toddler in the throes... |
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Hillary's America
Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 294
Format: Print book
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Dinesh D'Souza has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years -- or possibly eight years -- of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable. No more will America... |
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We Do Our Part: Toward a Fairer and More Equal America
CHARLES PETERS · RANDOM House
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The legendary editor who founded the Washington Monthly and pioneered explanatory journalism trains his keen, principled eye on the changes that have reshaped American politics and civic life beginning with the New Deal. "We Do Our Part" was the slogan of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's... |
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The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies
Michael T Flynn · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Ten years ago we found evidence that al-Qaeda was far more organized and adept than we had previously given them credit for. It took us nearly that long to locate and execute their leader, Osama bin Laden, and we are far from finished. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing... |
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 bestselling author - the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. AL FRANKEN, GIANT OF THE SENATE is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest... |
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
DAVID GARROW · William Morrow
Pages: 1472
Format: Hardcover
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As epic in vision and rigorous in detail as Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson series, the definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the 44th president of the United States - the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped an extraordinary... |
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Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
Debora L. Spar · Sarah Crichton Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man’s world? Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business... |
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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
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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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The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech
Kirsten Powers · Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Lifelong liberal Kirsten Powers blasts the Left's forced march towards conformity in an exposé of the illiberal war on free speech. No longer champions of tolerance and free speech, the "illiberal Left" now viciously attacks and silences anyone with alternative points of view.... |
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