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Tragedy in Aurora: The Culture of Mass Shootings in America
Tom Diaz - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Tragedy in Aurora is about the 2012 murder of budding sports journalist Jessica (Jessi) Redfield Ghawi in a public mass shooting, and the widening circle of pain it inflicted on her family, friends, police, medical first responders, and others. The book is at the same time a deep examination... |
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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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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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We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
JOSE ANDRES - Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more Chef Jos Andrs arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed and for most people there... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval N Harari - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal... |
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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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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
Douglas Waller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives... |
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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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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 Briefing
SEAN SPICER - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Sean Spicer takes readers behind the scenes of his turbulent tenure as President Trump's press secretary, shedding new light on the headline-grabbing controversies of the Trump administration's first year. |
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Black Site : The CIA in the Post-9/11 World
Philip Mudd
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A bold account of one of the most controversial and haunting initiatives in American history, Black Site tells the full story of the post-9/11 counterterrorism world at the CIA. When the towers fell on September 11, 2001, nowhere were the reverberations more powerfully felt than at CIA headquarters... |
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Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan
SHEILA TATE - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Lady in Red is the long-awaited collection of behind-the-scenes stories and iconic images of one of the most influential First Lady in modern history -- Nancy Reagan. Lovingly compiled by long-time close confidante and aide, Sheila Tate, the book provides a rare and much-anticipated... |
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The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep researchReaders around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bill... |
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
JEANNE THEOHARIS - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Explodes the fables that have been created about the civil rights movementThe civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered... |
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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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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A classic of war reporting...The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not." - The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers' unvarnished account of modern combat, told through... |
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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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Without a Country: The Untold Story of America's Deported Veterans
J MALCOLM GARCIA - Hot Books
Format: Hardcover
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Many Americans believe service in the military to be a quintessential way to demonstrate patriotism. We expect those who serve to be treated with respect and dignity. However, as in so many aspects of our politics, the reality and our ideals diverge widely in our treatment of veterans.... |
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
GILBERT KING - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential... |
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Rescued from ISIS: The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son
DIMITRI BONTINCK - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Rescued from ISIS is the inspiring and terrifying tale of one man's journey to the Middle East to save his child from radical Islam, and its surprising worldwide repercussions.Dimitri Bontinck lived every parent's worst nightmare. His teenage son, introduced to Islam by his girlfriend,... |
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Nobodys Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
Carrie Goldberg - Plume
Format: Hardcover
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Nobodys Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people dont know exists - one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off - and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution. "We are all a moment... |
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The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
Bryant Simon - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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For decades the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1980s, it had become post-industrial backwater, a magnet for businesses looking for cheap labor with little or almost no official oversight. One of these businesses was Imperial Foods,... |
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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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Leadership in Turbulent Times
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does... |
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You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
Meera Shah - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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For a long time, when people asked Dr. Meera Shah what she did, she would tell them she was a doctor and leave it at that. But over the last few years, Shah decided it was time to be direct. "I'm an abortion provider," she will now say. And an interesting thing started to happen... |
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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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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
JAMES COMEY - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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In his forthcoming book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions.... |
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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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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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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author.Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes... |
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Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI
Josh Campbell - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"An indispensable and riveting insider's account of one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in the history of the FBI. Crossfire Hurricane is a must-read for all Americans." - Daniel Silva, New York Times bestselling author "Campbell speaks both... |
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Live Free Or Die: America
Sean Hannity - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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America's top-rated cable news host and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers his first book in ten years: a look at America's fight against those who would reverse our tradition of freedom - a fight we can't afford to lose in 2020. America is great for a reason. Built... |
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Fear: Trump in the White House
BOB WOODWARD - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL ITWith authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes... |
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The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Jason Sokol - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassinationOn April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing... |
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
ANONYMOUS. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most... |
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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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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Michelle Kuo - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta "Reading with Patrick could be the most affecting book you'll read this year."... |
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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018) Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals... |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Indian America from 1890 to the Present
DAVID TREUER - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian... |
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Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis
Joe Dolce - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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The former editor-in-chief of Details and Star adventures into the fascinating "brave new world" of cannabis, tracing its history and possible future as he investigates the social, medical, legal, and cultural ramifications of this surprisingly versatile plant.Pot. Weed. Grass.... |
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
Emma Copley Eisenberg - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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A stunningly written investigation of the murder of two young women--showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were... |
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Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear Between Blacks & Whites
Harlon L Dalton - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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In the America of the 1990s the debate over race relations has become bitter, evasive, often meaningless. Liberals cry racism, conservatives cry family values; individual Blacks and Whites gingerly avoid the subject of race; tensions mount, anger grows, sometimes violence erupts. A consensus... |
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Fever Swamp: A Journey Through the Strange Neverland of the 2016 Presidential Race
Richard North Patterson - Quercus Books
Format: Print book
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By fall 2015, the rise of Donald Trump as the likely Republican nominee confirmed that, for better or worse, Americans had been transported to a strange new land populated by mysterious creatures, where the normal laws of the political universe no longer applied. Fascinated, amused, and appalled,... |
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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Andrew G. McCabe - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President... |
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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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Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World
Ellis Cose - HarperPerennial
Format: Paperback
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Is a truly race-netrual society possible? Can the United States wipe the slate clean and surmount the racism of its past? Or is color blindness just another name for denial? In this penetrating and provocative book, Ellis Cose probes the depths of the American mind and exposes the contradictions,... |
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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
Eileen McNamara - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family's most profound political legacy.While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping... |
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Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey
David Hugh Bunnell - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling... |
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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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Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity
Alison Flowers - Haymarket Books
Format: Print book
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Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people when the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed into the unknown. From the front lines of the wrongful conviction capital of the United... |
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American Higher Education in Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know
Goldie Blumenstyk - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Paperback
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American higher education is at a crossroads. Technological innovations and disruptive market forces are buffeting colleges and universities at the very time their financial structure grows increasingly fragile. Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices at public colleges, and student... |
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Tombs, Graves and Mummies: Great Discoveries in World Archaeology
Paul G Bahn - Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format: Book
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Bodies and graves present a unique and exciting aspect of archaeology, providing much information about social status through the quality and quantity of goods found in graves and tombs. This book surveys the great variety of this archaeological form from around the world, from the earliest... |
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To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police
Norm Stamper - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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The police in America belong to the people - not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege - misunderstood,... |
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Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings
Louis Klarevas - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the past decade, no individual act of violence has killed more people in the United States than the mass shooting. This well-researched, forcefully argued book answers some of the most pressing questions facing our society: Why do people go on killing sprees? Are gun-free zones magnets... |
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Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland
James D Robenalt - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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On July 23, 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black nationalists in a night of terror that saw 6 people killed and at least 15 wounded. The gun battle touched off days of heavy rioting. The question was whether the shootings were the result of a planned attack on white police, or a matter... |
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Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency
Corey R. Lewandowski - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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LET TRUMP BE TRUMP: THE INSIDE STORY OF HIS PRESIDENCY is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of how he became President of the United States.Donald Trump was a candidate, and now a president, like none that have come before. His startling rise to the White House is the greatest political... |
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration... |
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Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis
Charlotte Mcdonald-Gibson - New Press
Format: Print book
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In 2015, more than one million migrants and refugees, most fleeing war-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East, attempted to make the perilous journey into Europe. Around three thousand lost their lives as they crossed the Mediterranean and Aegean in rickety boats provided by unscrupulous... |
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The Torture Debate in America
Karen J Greenberg - Cambridge University Press
Format: Book
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Widely acclaimed as a publishing milestone, The Torture Papers (Cambridge, 2005) constitutes the definitive book of public record detailing the Bush Administration's policies on torture and political prisoners. In the process of assembling the documents, memoranda, and reports that... |
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The Mueller Report
Washington Post - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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The Crucial #1 New York Times Bestseller "The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype ... the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency." - Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post The only book with exclusive... |
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
JON MEACHAM - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * The... |
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