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Transforming Pain to Power: Unlock Your Unlimited Potential

Daniel Beaty - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Pain doesn’t last alwaysSometimes only for a nightTry not to resistIt hurts the more we fightOvercoming life’s difficulties is daunting. At times, it seems the burdens that we bear are too painful to overcome. They keep us from even trying to accomplish the things we want most....
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The Destruction of Hillary Clinton

Susan Bordo - Melville House
Format: Hardcover

A play-by-play of the political forces and media culture that vilified and ultimately brought down Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an answer to the question many have been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified,...
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The Road to Camelot: Inside the Kennedy Campaign

Tom Oliphant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"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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This Stops Today: Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son

GWEN CARR - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

After the death of her son, Eric Garner, at the hands of New York City police officers on Staten Island went viral, Gwen Carr's life changed forever. The illegal chokehold that took Garner's life has been seared into the public consciousness forever as the large black man struggled to breathe...
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Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm

Susan Crawford - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

An unflinching look at a beautiful, endangered, tourist-pummeled, and history-filled American city.. At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions...
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What Would Reagan Do?: Life Lessons from the Last Great President

Chris Christie - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America's last great president? A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie takes a fresh...
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

BRITTNEY COOPER - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

Lawrence O'Donnell - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it todayThe 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O'Donnell's...
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"Extraordinary... a profound reflection on one of the great paradoxes of American life - and a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit." - Patrick Radden Keefe "A searing, gut-wrenching, and masterfully reported account." - Jill Lepore. An epic,...
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Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul

Anthony Graves - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for--and winning--exoneration.Infinite Hope is an argument against the death penalty through one man's personal story. It is about a man enduring...
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