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Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court

O'Neill, Cara - NOLO PR

Win your small claims case You don't need a lawyer to win in small claims court if you know how to prepare and present your own case. Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court provides the information, tips, and strategies you need to sue someone successfully or to put up a winning...
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Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think

David Litt - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

Bill Bryson meets Thomas Frank in the true story of how power-hungry politicians broke American democracy -- and why fixing it is easier than you think -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Thanks, ObamaHere's something true for almost every American. The democracy you live...
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The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

Norman Ohler - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Blitzed, the incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led the anti-Nazi resistance in the darkening heart of Berlin Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow...
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John Lewis: A Life

David Greenberg - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, "the conscience of the Congress," drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.. Born into...
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

Rosa Brooks - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security....
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When I Was White: A Memoir

Sarah Valentine - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Kenneth Burns - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize...
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A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State

James D. Wright - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

A witty history of the state that's always in the news, for everything from alligator attacks to zany crimes.There's an old clip of Bugs Bunny sawing the entire state of Florida off the continent -- and every single time a news story springs up about some shenanigans in Florida,...
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 19361939

Adam Hochschild - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s,...
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There

David Brooks - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s;...
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