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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City

Drew Philp - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it - and his new neighborhood - to its original glory in this "deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen ... A standout" (Kirkus Reviews, starred...
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J D Vance - Harper
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book."...
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Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right

KENNETH STERN - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Widening the dialogue begun with Strangers in Their Own Land and Hillbilly Elegy, a former NPR CEO and lifelong Democrat's chronicle of his immersion in Republicanism to understand his fellow Americans across the political divide.Ken Stern doesn't believe that our political world...
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The Generals Have No Clothes: The Untold Story of Our Endless Wars

William M. Arkin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The first rule of perpetual war is to never stop, a fact which former NBC News analyst William M. Arkin knows better than anyone, having served in the Army and having covered all of America's wars over the past three decades. He has spent his career investigating how the military throws...
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Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary

Geoffrey Cowan - W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book

"Cowan has brought to life a fascinating part of TR's story usually left out of the history books. He tells it with verve and suspense, warts and all, his insights deepened by his own impressive background as a democracy activist." -- Adam Hochschild, author of To End All WarsLet...
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Notary Public

National Learning Corporation
Format: Paperback

The Notary Public Passbook prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: notarial duties, principles,...
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Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love

Mike Pompeo - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration's most significant foreign policy breakthroughs. Now, he reveals how he did it, and how it could happen again. Mike Pompeo is the only person ever to have served as both America's most senior...
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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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