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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Timothy Snyder - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America.With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized... |
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No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
Erling Hoh - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Print book
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An enthralling true-life story about a daring escape from one of Mao Zedong's prisonsMao Zedong's labor reform camps were notoriously brutal; modeled after the Soviet gulag, their inmates were subject to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. They were thought... |
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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"Mr. Berrys sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow." -- Nick Offerman, New York Times... |
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Untitled Louise Lobo
Louise Lobo - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"You have replaced 'advice and consent' with 'search and destroy.'" - BRETT KAVANAUGH In this deeply researched account, one of Washington's top legal reporters reveals the massive funding, sophisticated organization, and fanatical zeal behind the campaign to stop Brett Kavanaugh's... |
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The Best of Enemies, Movie Edition: Race and Redemption in the New South
Osha Gray Davidson - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
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C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled... |
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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend
Meryl Gordon - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. |
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Michelle Obama: A Life
Peter Slevin - Vintage
Format: Print book
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This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood... |
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Farewell Speeches
BARACK OBAMA - Melville House
Format: Paperback
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The final speeches of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama. Both speeches were instant and moving landmarks, as well as stirring testaments to the time this inspiring and beloved couple spent in the White House. |
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Why Jury Duty Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Constitutional Action
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Its easy to forget how important the jury really is to America. The right to be a juror is one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to all eligible citizens. The right to trial by jury helped spark the American Revolution, was quickly adopted at the Constitutional Convention, and is the only... |
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The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush's Decision toSurgeinIraq
Timothy Andrews Sayle - Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is the real story of how George W. Bush came to double-down on Iraq in the highest stakes gamble of his entire presidency. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly thirty senior officials, including President Bush himself, The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process... |
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With Charity for All: Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give
Ken Stern - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Vast and largely unexamined the world of American charities accounts for fully percent of economic activity inthis country yet operates with little accountability no real barriers to entry and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness In With Charity for All Ken Stern reveals a problem... |
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Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town
Mirta Ojito - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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2014 International Latino Awards FinalistThe true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration In November 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked... |
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See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea
Travis Jeppesen - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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From ballistic missile tests to stranger-than-fiction stories of purges and assassinations, news from North Korea never fails to dominate the global headlines. But what is life there actually likeIn See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen culls from his experiences living, traveling,... |
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Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
TO BE CONFIRMED GALLERY. - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides a jaw-dropping look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration.Few have been a member of Donald Trump's inner orbit longer than... |
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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American." - Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow"l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured." - Amy Tan,... |
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The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years
John Paul Stevens - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful and personal account of life on the Supreme Court that offers a unique understanding of American history from one of the most prominent jurists of our time When Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the Supreme Court in 2010, he left a legacy of service unequaled in the history... |
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
Anonymous. - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,... |
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Paperback
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#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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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Heather Mac Donald - Encounter Books
Format: Print book
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Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson... |
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Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
John P Avlon - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"A vivid portrait ... A thoughtful consideration of Washington's wisdom that couldn't be timelier." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) George Washington's Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a "parting friend" to his fellow citizens about the forces... |
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Making Los Angeles Home: The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Rafael Alarcón - University of California Press
Format: eBook
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Making Los Angeles Home examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angeles region. Relying on statistical data and ethnographic information, the authors analyze four different dimensions of the immigrant integration process (economic, social,... |
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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
Lawrence Wright - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle... |
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Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Ann Mcelhinney - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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Gosnell is the untold story of America's most prolific serial killer.In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree.ABC News correspondent Terry Moran... |
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The New Mind of the South
Tracy Thompson - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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There are those who say the South has disappeared. But in her groundbreaking, thought-provoking exploration of the region, Tracy Thompson, a Georgia native and Pulitzer Prize finalist, asserts that it has merely drawn on its oldest tradition: an ability to adapt and transform itself. Thompson... |
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The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III
ALAN STRAUSS-SCHOM - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A breakout biography of Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have polarized historians.Considered one of the pre-eminent Napoleon Bonaparte experts, Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan Strauss-Schom has turned his sights on another in that dynasty, Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon)... |
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Pence: The Path to Power
ANDREA NEAL - Red Lightning Books
Format: Hardcover
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What does it take to become the second-in-command of one of the most powerful countries in the world? Mike Pence's rise to the vice presidency of the United States wasn't always easy. To some, he is the personification of American conservative values, but to others, his ideals are the epitome... |
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Kwanzaa: From Holiday to Every Day
Maitefa Angaza - Dafina
Format: Paperback
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Traditionally, Kwanzaa brings family, friends, and the community together for a winter celebration. But Kwanzaa can be a part of your life year-round. Steeped in cultural richness, Kwanzaa is observed by millions of people of African descent who observe it for its seven inspiring, unifying... |
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy... |
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The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World
Mason Funk - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal... |
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Alexander the Great: Conqueror, Commander, King
John Sadler - Casemate
Format: Paperback
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Alexander was perhaps the greatest conquering general in history. In just over a generation, his northern Greek state of Macedon rose to control the whole of the vast Persian Empire. It was the legacy of his father, Philip, that launched Alexander on a spectacular career of conquest that... |
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The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
Neil Sheehan - Racehorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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"The WikiLeaks of its day" (Time) is as relevant as ever to present-day American politics. "The most significant leaks of classified material in American history." -The Washington Post Not Fake News! The basis for the 2018 film The Post by Academy Award-winning director... |
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
William Easterly - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right expert solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first... |
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White Identity Politics
Ashley Jardina - Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
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Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political world through the lens of a racial identity. Whiteness was once thought to be invisible because of whites' dominant position and ability to claim the mainstream, but today a large portion... |
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A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
Joshua S. Goldstein - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, practical way to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change. As climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries... |
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The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
Charles Krauthammer - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical - including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about... |
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." -- Charles Kaiser, The Guardian A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once... |
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Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World
Bill O'Reilly - Crown Archetype; First Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author ofKilling Lincolnand host of Fox News top showThe OReilly Factor, the best of Bill OReillys provocative writingreflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core valuesBill OReilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled... |
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Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
Valerie Jarrett - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"The ultimate Obama insider" (The New York Times) and longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White House shares her journey as a daughter, mother, lawyer, business leader, public servant, and leader in government at a historic moment in American history.When Valerie... |
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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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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
CONDE NAST & THE WOMEN'S MARCH. - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD * SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH * AMERICA FERRARA * ROXANE GAY * ILANA GLAZER * ASHLEY JUDD * VALARIE KAUR * CINDI LEIVE * DAVID REMNICK * JILL SOLOWAY * YARA SHAHIDI * JIA TOLENTINO * CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS * ELAINE WELTEROTH * JOSE ANTONIO... |
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When I Was White: A Memoir
Sarah Valentine - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed... |
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The Purpose-Based Library: Finding Your Path to Survival, Success, and Growth
John J. Huber - Neal-Schuman Publishers
Format: Print book
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In the years since John Huber's trailblazing Lean Library Management was published, budget pressures on libraries have only increased. Yet libraries who have adopted his strategies have turned conventional management thinking that if budgets are reduced, customer service suffers on its head.... |
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Amy Chua - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many... |
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Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
ELI SASLOW - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mindDerek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand... |
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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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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
ALISSA QUART - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies... |
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Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole
Ann Coulter - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller!Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches... |
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Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home
James Carville - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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For twenty years, James Carville and Mary Matalin have held the mantle of the nation's most politically opposed, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couple. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, Carville and Matalin... |
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Nine Lives: My time as the West's top spy inside al-Qaeda
AIMEN DEAN - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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"A compelling and invaluable account of life inside al-Qaeda through the eyes of a first-rate spy. This unique narrative throws open the shutters of the secret worlds of terror." -- Lawrence Wright, bestselling author of The Looming TowerAs one of al-Qaeda's most respected... |
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The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation
Saul Levmore - Harvard University Press
Format: Book
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The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom. The alluring combination of sophisticated technology with low barriers to entry and instantaneous outreach to millions of users has mesmerized libertarians and communitarians alike. Lawmakers have joined the celebration, passing the Communications... |
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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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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X Kendi - Nation Books
Format: Paperback
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The history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning... |
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Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life
Michele Stephenson - Speigel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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As seen on PBS's POVAn unprecedented guide to helping black boys achieve success at every stage of their lives - at home, at school, and in the world Regardless of how wealthy or poor their parents are, all black boys must confront and surmount the "achievement gap":... |
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book's thirty-five year history and demonstrates once again why it is a significant contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.Since its original... |
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.
Nicholson Baker - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best... |
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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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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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In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
DANNY GOLDBERG - Akashic Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Danny Goldberg is a relentless tracker of people. However elusive this Lost Chord may be, Danny G. searches it out and nails it to the tree flesh. Eternity now! 1967 forever!" --Wavy Gravy"Danny Goldberg's deeply personal and political history of 1967 and the hippie... |
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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us
Joseph J Ellis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history... |
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation."- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon"[This] gripping account of the Troubles is equal parts true-crime,... |
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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
Ai-jen Poo - The New Press, 2015. 2015
Format: Print book
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By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders.... |
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
Gene Weingarten - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten... |
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La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millennials
David E Hayes-Bautista - University of California Press
Format: Paperback
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Since late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino. When these babies reach adulthood, they will, by sheer force of numbers, influence the course of the Golden State. This essential study, based on decades of data, paints a vivid and energetic portrait... |
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This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
Ashton Applewhite - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower,... |
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
BRITTNEY COOPER - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America's leading young black feminist celebrates the power of rage.Melissa Harris Perry says: "I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story...I was waiting and she has come... |
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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
David A. Stockman - PublicAffairs; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washingtons craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American stateespecially the Federal Reservehas... |
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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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Guilty By Reason of Insanity: Why The Democrats Must Not Win
David Limbaugh - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The Democratic Party is now a party of leftist extremism -- radical to the point of insanity: socialist, anti-Christian, in favor of de facto infanticide, and opposed to the rule of law (when it does not suit their purposes, including on the border) . Best-sellling author David Limbaugh... |
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Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Julian Lim - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration,... |
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A World to Win: The Life and Thought of Karl Marx
SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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Epic new biography of Karl Marx for the 200th anniversary of his birthIn this essential new biography - the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx - Sven-Eric Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent... |
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Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
Forrest Stuart - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward... |
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Impeachment: An American History
Jeffrey A. Engel - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked - against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton - and explain what it means today.Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called... |
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A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
LIsa Pease - Feral House
Format: Hardcover
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In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was deliberately altered and, in some instances, destroyed;... |
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Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
Henry M Paulson - Twelve, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER"DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism. " Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson... |
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Behind the Kitchen Door
Saru Jayaraman - ILR Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant grows, the people grow with... |
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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
Cliff Sims - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.He soon found himself pulled into the President's... |
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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
David Horowitz - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America - and the world.One of the nation's foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author,... |
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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
Susan Page - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff}... |
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Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto
Jesse Ventura - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author Jesse Ventura lays out his philosophy on marijuana, and why he's always been in favor of legalization. Now, more than ever before, our country needs to see full legalization of medical/recreational marijuana and hemp.Any way you look at it, for whoever... |
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Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
Donna Freitas - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful memoir about a young woman's toxic relationship with her mentor, an acclaimed professor, whose dark, stalking obsession altered her future forever.Donna Freitas has lived two lives. In one life, she is a well-published author and respected scholar who has traveled around the country... |
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
GAIL LUKASIK - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's "passing," Gail's struggle with the shame of her mother's choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow... |
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La vida robot.
Joshua Davis - Farrar
Format: Paperback
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Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University... |
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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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Addicted to Outrage: How Thinking Like a Recovering Addict Can Heal the Country
GLENN BECK - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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A new and sober Glenn Beck - author of thirteen #1 New York Times bestsellers - issues a startling challenge to people on both sides of the aisle to give up our addiction to hating each other.America is addicted to outrage, we're at the height of a twenty-year bender, and we need an intervention.... |
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The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies
Michael T Flynn - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Ten years ago we found evidence that al-Qaeda was far more organized and adept than we had previously given them credit for. It took us nearly that long to locate and execute their leader, Osama bin Laden, and we are far from finished. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing... |
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Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests
Cynthia Orr - Libraries Unlimited; 7 edition
Format: Paperback
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For readers' advisory librarians with patrons looking for their next great read, professors teaching readers' advisory service, or even enthusiastic readers who prefer to help themselves, Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests serves all of their needs. A new introductory... |
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The Lisu: Far from the Ruler
Michele Zack - University Press of Colorado
Format: Paperback
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This first-ever book about the Lisu brings their ironic worldview to life through vivid, often amusing accounts of individuals, communities, regions, and practices. One of the smallest and last groups of stateless people, and the most egalitarian of all Southeast Asian highland minorities,... |
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The Case for Trump
Victor Davis Hanson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian and regular Fox contributor, the true story of how Donald Trump has become one of the most successful presidents in history -- and why America needs him now more than ever In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor... |
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America: The Farewell Tour
Chris Hedges - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair - drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate.America,... |
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine... |
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Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
Susan Rice - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice - National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nations - reveals her surprising story with unflinching candor. Mother, wife,... |
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All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump
Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A Wall Street Journal bestseller. ALL OUT WAR!. Thats what the media, the Democrats, and the Never-Trump Republicans are waging on the democratically elected president of the United States.. With ferocity not seen since the Civil War, the Washington establishment and the radical Left are joining... |
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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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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William... |
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How Democracies Die
STEVE LEVITSKY - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely." - New York Times Book Review"Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment." - The Washington PostDonald Trump's presidency... |
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
Dawn Anahid MacKeen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation... |
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I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer
Ahmet Altan
Format: Paperback
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A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism. The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await... |
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present.In a time when Washington, DC and the country is more polarized than it has been for decades, John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect... |
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Permanent Record
Arthur King - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013,... |
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Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu
Anshel Pfeffer - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply reported biography of the controversial Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel today without first understanding the man who leads itFor many in Israel and elsewhere, Benjamin Netanyahu is anathema, an embarrassment, even a precursor to Donald Trump. But he continues... |
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Brendan I. Koerner - Crown
Format: Print book
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In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some... |
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Future Sex
Emily Witt - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A funny, fresh, and moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single womanEmily Witt is single and in her thirties. Up until a few years ago, she still envisioned her sexual experience "eventually reaching a terminus, like a monorail gliding to a stop at Epcot Center."... |
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Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares
Aarti Namdev Shahani - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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A heartfelt memoir about the immigrant experience from NPR correspondent Aarti Shahani.Who really belongs in America? That question has chased every newcomer and many native born since the founding of the republic. In this heart-wrenching, vulnerable and witty memoir, journalist... |
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The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
Anu Partanen - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children.Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly... |
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WHAT WE DO NOW: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump's America
Dennis Loy Johnson - Melville House
Format: Print book
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An inspiring handbook for people troubled by the election of Donald Trump, by some of the biggest names in progressive politics. Meant to give people heart and actual strategies about how to advance a variety of causes. |
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Build a Great Team: One Year to Success (Ala Guides for the Busy Librarian)
Catherine Hakala-Ausperk - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback
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With library staffing levels and services cut to the bone, creating a team that communicates well and functions smoothly is more important than ever. Building on the model of her bestselling book Be A Great Boss, Hakala-Ausperk presents a handy self-guided tool to the dynamic role of team-building.... |
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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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Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
MARWAN HISHAM - One World
Format: Hardcover
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A bracingly immediate memoir of the Syrian war from its inception to the present by a young man coming of age and finding his voice as a journalist, whose friends traveled divergent paths through the carnage. An intimate lens into the century's bloodiest conflict, and a profound meditation... |
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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis - and charts a way out. The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense,... |
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
Sybrina Fulton - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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Trayvon Martin's parents take readers beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement. On a February evening in 2012, in a small town in central Florida, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking... |
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After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction
Renata Adler - New York Review Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. As a staff writer at The New Yorker. Adler reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; the wars in Biafra, and the Middle East; the Nixon impeachment inquiry;... |
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The Year of Voting Dangerously The Derangement of American Politics
Maureen Dowd - Twelve
Format: Print book
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Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking... |
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