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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson - Random House
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From... |
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The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
James Kirchick - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart. In riveting... |
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Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law
David Cole - Basic Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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How did gay and lesbian couples' right to marry go from unthinkable to inevitable? How did the individual right to bear arms, dismissed as fraudulent by Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1990, become a constitutional right in 2008? And what compelled President George W. Bush to rein in many... |
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Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win Or Lose Off The Battlefield
Tony Zinni - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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For the better part of the last half century the United States has been the Worlds Police claiming to defend ideologies allies and our national security through brute force But is military action always the most appropriate response Drawing on his vast experience from combat in Vietnam... |
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Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America
Rand Paul - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Senator Rand Paul, leading national politician and likely contender for the 2016 Presidential bid, presents his vision for America.
In his four years since joining the Senate, Rand Paul has risen to the forefront of the national discussion. He's being called "the most interesting... |
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The Wiki Way of Learning: Creating Learning Experiences Using Collaborative Web Pages
Michele Notari - Amer Library Association, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Given the limited budgets of schools, educators, and school librarians, free and open source tools for learning are more important than ever. Essentially, wikis are easily accessible webpages for creating, browsing, and searching through information, making them ideal vehicles for teaching... |
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The Undocumented Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn - Regnery Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Hes brash, brilliant, and drawn to controversy like a moth to a flame. For decades, Mark Steyn has dazzled readers around the world with his raucous wit and brutal honesty. Whether hes sounding off on the tyranny of political correctness, the existential threat of Islamic extremism, the nationalization... |
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Say It with Data: A Concise Guide to Making Your Case and Getting Results
Priscille Dando - ALA Ed.
Format: Paperback
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Administrators, policy makers, legislators, and the public demand concrete, measurable evidence of the need for libraries and their use. The collection and dissemination of data about library service in a straightforward, convincing manner are integral components of library advocacy in the current... |
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Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change
L. Hunter Lovins - Hill and Wang; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Believe in climate change Or dont It doesnt matter But youd better understand this the best route to rebuilding our economy our cities and our job markets as well as assuring national security is doing precisely what you would do if you were scared to death about climate change Whether... |
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Russians: The People behind the Power
Gregory Feifer - Grand Central
Format: Hardcover
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From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today. RUSSIANS explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling... |
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Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel
John Stubbs - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver's Travels, by a "vivid, ardent, and engaging" author (New York Times Book Review) .Jonathan Swift's world-famous books -- from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal -- are unparalleled in their piercing critique... |
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Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates
Jim Lehrer - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"In his quiet but intense way, Jim Lehrer earns the trust of the major political players of our time," notes Barbara Walters. "He explains and exposes their hopes and dreams, their strengths and failures as they try to put their best foot forward."From the man widely... |
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Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
Ron Suskind - Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. Until August 2007, when that confidence finally... |
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The ALA Book of Library Grant Money, Ninth Edition
Nancy Kalikow Maxwell - Amer Library Assn Editions; 9 edition
Format: Paperback
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This all-in-one resource for researching library and school grants is back in a new edition, and more useful than ever, offering refreshed content and even more guidance on locating grant funding sources. Using this guide, librarians, fundraisers, and researchers will find quick, convenient... |
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Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans
Mitch Daniels - Sentinel HC; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His reply to the crowd A republic, if you can keep it. Now Americas most respected governor explains just how close weve come to losing the republic, and how we can restore... |
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Florida Governors Lasting Legacies
Robert Buccellato - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The state of Florida has a unique place in the annals of national history and has been a constant contributor to the country's identity. The 51 men who have served as the state's governors are an essential part of its complex identity and have produced resonant material for historians... |
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Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think
Ken Buck - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Lavish parties. Committee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder. Welcome to Washington, D.C., the swamp that President Donald Trump was elected to drain.Congressman Ken Buck is blowing the whistle on the real-life... |
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
FRANCISCO CANT - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective."--Phil... |
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Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
Greg Gutfeld - Crown Forum; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool. From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst,... |
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Thomas Childers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the Third Reich - how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans.In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young... |
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Andrea Ritchie - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. In recent years there has been increasing awareness of the daily violence at the hands of law enforcement agents... |
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The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage
Jared Yates Sexton - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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On June 14, 2016, Jared Yates Sexton reported from a Donald Trump rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. One of the first journalists to attend these rallies and give mainstream readers an idea of the raw anger that occurred there, Sexton found himself in the center of a maelstrom. Following... |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly--and the Stark Choices Ahead
Dambisa Moyo - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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In How the West Was Lost the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the Wests economic supremacy She examines how the Wests flawed financial decisions have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to tip in favor... |
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Inspired Collaboration: Ideas for Discovering and Applying Your Potential
Dorothy Stoltz - ALA Editions
Format: Print book
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Collaboration involves a fusion of individual talents and skills through outreach and cooperation. And it is one of the key ingredients of a vibrant, successful library that is also relevant to the community it serves. But it doesn't just happen magically, and it's a challenge... |
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Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Gabriella Coleman - Verso; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer the Huffington Post says "knows all of Anonymous' deepest, darkest secrets."Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella... |
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Steven Levingston - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth... |
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane
ANONYMOUS. - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive.... |
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Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap
Graham Allison - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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War with China is much more likely than anyone thinks When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one. As the eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison explains, in the past... |
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Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time
DAVID MILIBAND - Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover
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We are in the midst of a global refugee crisis. Sixty five million people are fleeing for their lives. The choices are urgent, not just for them but for all of us. What can we possibly do to help?With compassion and clarity, David Miliband shows why we should care and how we can make a difference.... |
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Public Management in Transition: The Orchestration of Potentiality
Niels Ã
kerstrøm Andersen - Policy Press
Format: Print book
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In the debate over how best to manage public administration and welfare institutions, there exists a great tension between calls to control and calls to generate change. Public Management in Transition takes on this tension, providing an overview of important pathways for implementing innovation... |
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No Fear of Failure: Real Stories of How Leaders Deal with Risk and Change
Gary Burnison - Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Candid conversations with top leaders around the world on how they approached pitvotal moments in their careersNo Fear of Failureoffers insightful candid conversations with some of the worlds top leaders in business politics education and philanthropyeach giving a first-person account of how they... |
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Getting Started With Evaluation
Peter Hernon - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback
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Everyone agrees that evaluation of library services is essential, but without a background in research it can be a challenge to apply abstract concepts such as strategic planning, evidence-based decision making, and accountability to real-world situations. Finally library managers have... |
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ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States 2014
Bernan Press - Bernan Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Questions come across the reference desk on all topics: How many hate crimes were there in 2008? Are there many book clubs in the U.S.? Do you have the GDP for the U.S. for the past 10 (or so) years? How many people use Facebook? All of these questions can be answered by the ProQuest Statistical... |
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Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
Martin Meredith - PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. After a century of investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding about the beginnings of human life. But vital clues still remain hidden. In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith... |
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
MAX BOOT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987) , the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet... |
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The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood
William J. Bennett - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MANRaising up men has never been easy but today is seems particularly tough nbspThe young and old need heroes to embody the eternal qualities of manhood honor duty valor and integrity nbspIn The Book of Man William J Bennett points the way offering a positive encouraging... |
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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly... |
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The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat
Charlie Crist - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book
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Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida, spent years in the party's inner circle. In this no-holds-barred memoir, he shows why he switched sides and became a Democrat.After serving as a Republican governor - one who was on the short list for the vice presidency in 2008... |
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Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas
Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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1 New York Times Bestseller In this highly anticipated follow-up to his blockbuster The Amateur, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Edward Klein delves into the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons. An old-school reporter with incredible insider contacts, Klein... |
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expos of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking... |
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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington
Mike Huckabee - Sentinel HC; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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"We need a simple government. Don't get me wrong; I know that many of the nation's problems are highly complex. But I also know that the governing principles that can solve them, if we work together, are simple." Armed with little money but a lot of common sense, former... |
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cambria} From the former secretary of state and bestselling author--a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom.From the end of the Cold War and the collapse... |
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Untitled on HRC
Jonathan Allen - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about... |
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I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Gina Sheridan - Adams Media Corporation
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.... |
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era
TA-NEHISI COATES - One World
Format: Book
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In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power"... |
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Understanding Trump
Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Complete IEP Guide: How to Advocate for Your Special Ed Child
Lawrence Siegel Attorney - NOLO; 7 edition
Format: Paperback
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Create an IEP with this start-to-finish guide for caring parents Your special needs child needs a special education, and as a parent, you face a number of obstacles as you work with your school district to develop an Individual Education Plan (IEP) - lots of steps, complicated paperwork,... |
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Revolt!: How to Defeat Obama and Repeal His Socialist Programs
Dick Morris - Broadside Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Now that the Republicans have taken the House How can they use their majority to reverse Obamas Socialist agenda Revolt lays out a game plan for success Morris and McGann explain how to use the debt limit and budget fights to force Obama to accept Republican policies while at the same... |
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How the Right Lost Its Mind
Charles J Sykes - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Paperback
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"Bracing and immediate." - The Washington PostOnce at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles J. Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise.In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes... |
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Victoria & Abdul
Shrabani Basu - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. Tall and handsome Abdul was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Within a year, Abdul... |
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling... |
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Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001
Michael Tomasky - Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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The president of larger-than-life ambitions and appetites whose term defined America at the close of the twentieth centuryBill Clinton: a president of contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School graduate, but he was also a fatherless child from rural Arkansas. He was one of the most... |
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
William I Hitchcock - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself.In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial... |
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE - ALFRED A KNOPF
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise... |
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The Soul of the First Amendment
Floyd Abrams - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and controversial overview by the nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored... |
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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
George Friedman - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years) , with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe. This provocative work examines "flashpoints," unique geopolitical hot spots where tensions have erupted throughout... |
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Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy
Kenneth Pollack - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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The worlds foremost expert on Middle Eastern relations explains Irans current nuclear potential and what America can do about it EngrossingIf Congress gets a vote on going to war with Iran, lets hope that this book is on everyones reading lists The Economist. In 2005, Kenneth Pollacks first... |
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Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?
Chelsea Clinton - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health organizations. These organizations... |
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Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth
Michael Savage - Center St
Format: Hardcover
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In his trademark in-your-face style, bestselling author and top conservative talk-show host, Michael Savage has a lot to say about the state of the country in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR. According to Michael Savage, OUR NATION IS IN REAL TROUBLE and the seeds of a second conflagration have... |
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times p.p1 {margin:... |
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The Road to Camelot: Inside the Kennedy Campaign
Tom Oliphant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A must-read for fans of presidential history." - USA TODAY "Splendid ... a gripping, authoritative campaign history." - The Boston Globe "Terrific ... a tougher and more balanced account of the long campaign than anybody's written yet." - The... |
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Roar: The New Conservative Woman Speaks Out
Scottie Nell Hughes - Worthy Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Are you sick and tired of watching your city, state and country spiral out of control and into the hands of liberals, whether Democrats or Republicans in Name Only? If so, you will be inspired to make a difference as you read the passionate battle cry of Scottie Nell Hughes. In the past,... |
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Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Peter Andreas - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] luminous memoir" - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire here." - BOOKLIST (starred review) The intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts... |
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Finding Your Roots, Season 2: The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. clearly demonstrates, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical... |
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Political Profiles the Kennedy Years
Nelson Lichtenstein - Facts on File
Format: Hardcover
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Presents brief biographies of five hundred men and women who played significant roles in United States politics during the 1950s |
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Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond
Gideon Rachman - Other Press
Format: Print book
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From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East. Easternization is the defining trend of our age - the growing... |
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
D D'SOUZA - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." - RUSH LIMBAUGHThe explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York... |
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The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
David K. Shipler - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of The Working Poor, an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives.How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What... |
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The New American Revolution: The Making of a Populist Movement
KAYLEIGH MCENANY - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy comes an exploration of the American heartland - a fascinating and eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the powerful grassroots populist movement of frustrated Americans left behind by the government that changed the landscape... |
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
MICHAEL WOLFF - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside storyof the most controversial presidency of our timeThe first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous -- and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling... |
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Settle for More
Megyn Kelly - Harper
Format: Print book
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Click Here For the Autographed Copy
Anchor of the number one news show on cable, The Kelly File, Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly writes her much anticipated book, a revealing and surprising memoir detailing her rise as one of the most respected journalists working today. From the values... |
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president... |
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Ecology, Economy, Equity: The Path to a Carbon-Neutral Library
Mandy Henk - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Book
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In the first book to seriously examine the future of libraries in a climate reality-based context, Henk convincingly argues that building a carbon-neutral future for libraries is not only essential but eminently practical. Using the three Es of sustainability ecology, economy, equity as a foundation,... |
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A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama
Michael D'Antonio - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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Barack Obama was once a most unlikely candidate, but his successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and the Great Recession had discouraged millions of Americans, Obama made a promise... |
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
Douglas Murray - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover
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The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable... |
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What Happened
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton... |
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Ben Carson - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation's... |
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The Comparative Guide to Wordpress in Libraries: A Lita Guide
Amanda L. Goodman - ALA TechSource, an imprint of the American Library Association
Format: Paperback
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More than just an easy-to-use blogging platform, WordPress is in fact a flexible, open source content management system. Without spending a dime or writing a line of code, it's possible to build the library website of your dreams. But it's important to understand the basic principles... |
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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
Nigel Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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In the next installment of the "splendid memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times) , Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as the war raged in Africa and Italy. Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command,... |
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17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History
Andrew Morton - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II.Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward... |
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Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Richard Miniter - Sentinel HC
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Shadow War and Losing Bin Laden exposes the sinister Al Qaeda mastermind behind 9/11. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, has carried out many of the biggest terrorist plots of the past twenty years, including the 1993 World Trade Center... |
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Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
Peggy Johnson - Amer Library Assn Editions; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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In this sweeping revision of a text that has become an authoritative standard, expert instructor and librarian Peggy Johnson addresses the art of controlling and updating library collections, whether located locally or accessed remotely. Each chapter offers complete coverage of one aspect... |
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
MITCH LANDRIEU - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate... |
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The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
David Mamet - Sentinel HC; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"My interest in politics began when I noticed that I acted differently than I spoke, that I had seen 'the government' commit sixty years of fairly unrelieved and catastrophic error nationally and internationally, that I not only hated every wasted hard-earned cent I spent in taxes,... |
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Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State
Emily Bell - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Edward Snowden's release of classified NSA documents exposed the widespread government practice of mass surveillance in a democratic society. The publication of these documents, facilitated by three journalists, as well as efforts to criminalize the act of being a whistleblower or source,... |
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Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism
Mark R. Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America's most sacred values.In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders' warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes... |
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Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation Is Remaking America
Mr. Morley Winograd - Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover
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About every eight decades, coincident with the most stressful and perilous events in U.S. historythe Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the Great Depression and World War IIa new, positive, accomplished, and group-oriented civic generation emerges to change the course of history and remake... |
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
CHINA MIEVILLE - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed fantasy author China Miville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive... |
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Two Paths: America Divided or United
John Kasich - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Two paths.One choice -- the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks... |
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Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America
Amy Goodman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A celebration of the acclaimed news program Democracy Now! and the extraordinary heroes who have moved our democracy forward.In 1996 Amy Goodman started a radio show called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues that are underreported or ignored by mainstream news coverage.... |
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild - New Press
Format: Print book
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2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTIONA 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election"This is a smart,... |
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America: Imagine a World without Her
Dinesh D'Souza - Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh... |
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The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
George Friedman - Doubleday; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decadersquos... |
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Be a Great Boss
Catherine Hakala-Ausperk - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback
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Moving into a library management position can feel like a daunting and solitary pursuit. Graduate school courses in management are expensive and often hard to find, and even having a mentor at hand is no guarantee of a successful transition. To help library managers improve their skills... |
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The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency
Ellen F Fitzpatrick - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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In The Highest Glass Ceiling, best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the American presidency. Victoria Woodhull (1872) , Margaret Chase Smith (1964) , and Shirley Chisholm (1972) each challenged persistent... |
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More Storytime Magic
Kathy MacMillan - ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2016.
Format: Print book
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MacMillian and Kirker's knack for creating storytimes that engage and delight young ones have made their previous books bestsellers. Now they're back with an all new assortment of original fingerplays, transitional rhymes, movement songs, flannelboards, sign language rhymes and other... |
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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Katha Pollitt - Picador
Format: Book
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Recommended by Carol McFarland, Youth Services.
A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATIONForty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, abortion is still a word that is said with outright... |
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Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right
KENNETH STERN - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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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Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex
William D. Hartung - Nation Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Enthralling and explosive, Prophets of War is an exposé of America’s largest military contractor, Lockheed Martin. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a company could... |
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The Sociology Book
Christopher Thorpe - DK Publishing
Format: Print book
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The Sociology Book takes on some of humankind's biggest questions: What is society? What makes it tick? Why do we interact in the way that we do with our friends, coworkers, and rivals? The Sociology Book profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their... |
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Kurt Andersen - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe . . . to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest... |
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The Secrets of the FBI
Ronald Kessler - Crown Forum; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Secrets of the FBI by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler reveals the FBIrsquos most closely guarded secrets and the secrets of celebrities, politicians, and movie stars uncovered by agents during their investigations. Based on inside access, the book presents revelations... |
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Tyrant
STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny.... |
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most... |
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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
Alia Malek - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people... |
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Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration
Greg Berman - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A bold agenda for criminal justice reform based on equal parts pragmatism and idealism, from the visionary director of the Center for Court Innovation, a leader of the reform movement Everyone knows that the United States leads the world in incarceration, and that our political process... |
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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas D. Kristof - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroada road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles... |
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Programming for Children and Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Barbara Klipper - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback
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Those who understand the unique sensitivities of young people with autism spectrum disorder, now the second most commonly diagnosed serious developmental disability, know that ordinary library programming guides are not up to the task of effectively serving these library users. Klipper... |
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Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life
Thomas Bailey - Foredge
Format: Hardcover
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Of all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself: as a man of letters. This fascinating account traces Roosevelt's lifelong engagement with books and discusses his writings from childhood journals to his final editorial,... |
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The Coming Jobs War
Jim Clifton - Gallup Press
Format: Hardcover
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In The Coming Jobs War, Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton boldly asserts that job creation and successful entrepreneurship are the worlds most pressing issues, outpacing runaway government spending, environmental degradation, and even the threat of global terrorism. The book is grounded in findings... |
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Basic Income: A Guide for the Open-Minded
Guy Standing - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Shouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by guaranteeing income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth, and happiness? Basic income is a revolutionary idea that guarantees regular, unconditional cash transfers from the government... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1932
Blanche Wiesen Cook - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, and reviewers everywhere, Blanche Wiesen Cook's Eleanor Roosevelt presents an unprecedented portrait of the towering female figure of the twentieth century. The second volume plunges into the White House years and the Great Depression,... |
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