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Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

Thomas Travisano · Viking
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life - and for poetry - than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals...
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Understanding Trump

Newt Gingrich · Center Street
Format: Hardcover

With this book, Newt Gingrich provides insight and inspiration for Americans as they embrace their new president in office. Donald Trump is a remarkable phenomenon. He is the only person ever elected president without holding office or serving as a general. Trump and "Trumpism "...
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Represent Yourself in Court: Prepare & Try a Winning Civil Case

Paul Bergman JD · NOLO
Format: Paperback

How to prepare and present a winning civil court case Many disputes are too big for small claims court but too small to justify a lawyer's fee. Fortunately, if you are willing to learn the courtroom ropes, you can successfully handle your own case from start to finish. Represent Yourself...
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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

Chris Arnade · Sentinel
Format: Hardcover

Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael...
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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Rebecca Nagle · Harper
Format: Hardcover

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century...
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The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

Ron DeSantis · Broadside e-books
Format: Hardcover

No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now, he reveals how he did it. He played baseball for Yale, graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, and served in Iraq and in the halls of Congress. But in all these places, Ron DeSantis learned the same...
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Hitler's Secret Army: A Hidden History of Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors

Tim Tate · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

This dramatic expos of Allied subterfuge and betrayal uncovers the treachery of undercover fascists and American Nazi spy rings during the height of World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy Allied men and women were convicted -- mostly in secret trials -- of working to help...
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Reagan: His Life and Legend

Max Boot · Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician -- America's fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography.From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of Ronald Reagan,...
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