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Skinfolk: A Memoir

Matthew Pratt Guterl - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

A haunting, poignant story of growing up in a mixed-race family in 1970s New Jersey, in the tradition of The Color of Water.. Race is made, not born. It can materialize with a thunderous suddenness. It can happen to you in moments that will be cauterized into memory as if into flesh. Could...
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them.The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time...
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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

KATY TUR - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Compelling ... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in JournalismCalled "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice"...
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Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

Adam Jentleson
Format: Hardcover

An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy.Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp...
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The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite

Alessandro Busa? - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The Creative Destruction of New York City tells the story of fifteen years of shocking urban changes under the administrations of Bloomberg and de Blasio, and identifies the urban regime of city producers who are rebuilding cities like New York for a brand new global class of super-wealthy...
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Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop

Gus Garcia-Roberts
Format: Hardcover

An incredible four-decade account of murder, power, and corruption in one of the country's largest police departments In 1979, the gruesome slaying of a thirteen-year-old boy riveted the suburbs of Suffolk County, New York. As the county hustled to bring the case to a dubious resolution,...
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Well, This Is Exhausting: Essays

Sophia Benoit
Format: Hardcover


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Complete Directory for People with Disabilities

Laura Mars - Grey House Publishing; 22 edition
Format: Paperback

A wealth of information, now in one comprehensive sourcebook. Completely updated for 2013, this eighteenth edition contains more information than ever before, including a new separate section on disability groups, from blind & deaf to dexterity to speech and language. Plus, this edition...
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Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World

James Ball - Biteback Publishing
Format: Paperback

2016 marked the dawn of the post-truth era. The year saw two shock election results, each of which has the potential to reshape the world: the UK's decision to leave the EU, and the elevation of Donald Trump to the office of US President. The campaigns highlighted many of the same issues...
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Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth

Claire Bellerjeau - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

In January 1785, a young African American woman named Elizabeth was put on board the Lucretia in New York Harbor, bound for Charleston, where she would be sold to her fifth master in just twenty-two years. Leaving behind a small child she had little hope of ever seeing again, Elizabeth...
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