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This Is All I Got: A New Mothers Search for Home

Lauren Sandler - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

A New York Times Notable BookFrom an award-winning journalist, a poignant and gripping immersion in the life of a young, homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter in the richest city in AmericaLong-Listed for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award"A lesson for us all,...
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American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution

A Roger Ekirch - Pantheon
Format: Print book

From "one of America's most imaginative historians" (Gordon S. Wood) . The extraordinary story of the mutiny aboard the frigate HMS Hermione in 1797 (eight years after the mutiny on the Bounty) - the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy, that led to the extradition...
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Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means for our future - from journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein. After Election Day 2016, both supporters and opponents of the soon-to-be president hailed his victory...
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Preparing for a Better End: Expert Lessons on Death and Dying for You and Your Loved Ones

Dan Morhaim
Format: Hardcover

While modern Americans strive to control nearly every aspect of their lives, many of us abandon control of life's final passage. But the realities of twenty-first-century medicine will allow most of us to have a say in how, when, and where we die, so we need to make decisions surrounding...
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The Four Tests: What It Will Take to Keep America Strong and Good

Daniel Baer - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative, illuminating look at America's future and the "tests" the United States must meet to maintain leadership and power in the 21st century - from the former US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.. With today's fraught global...
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Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents, and Survivors: Updated Edition

The US Department of Veterans Affairs - Skyhorse Publishing; Updated edition
Format: Book

Veterans of the United States armed forces may be eligible for a broad range of benefits and services provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). If you’re looking for information on these benefits and services, look no further than the newest edition of Federal Benefits...
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How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

Akiba Solomon - Bold Type Books
Format: Paperback

This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice-and ideas for how each of us can contribute Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're...
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Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy

Kylie Cheung - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

Journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung exposes the insidious--and often unseen--connections among domestic abuse, state-based violence, political disenfranchisement, and the carceral state. For readers of The Revolution Starts at Home, Feminism for the 99%, and Good and Mad.....
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit

Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's...
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

TIMOTHY SNYDER - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy...
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