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I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter

David Chariandy · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat

For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy.

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Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling

AMY CHOZICK · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

For a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton's pursuit of the presidency. Chozick's front-row seat, initially covering Clinton's imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to "The Hillary Beat" ahead of the 2016 election,...

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Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory

David A. Robertson · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A son who grew up away from his Indigenous culture takes his Cree father on a trip to their family's trapline, and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds but creates a new future.The son of a Cree father and a non-Indigenous mother, David A. Robertson was raised with...
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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Yang Jisheng
Format: Hardcover

As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's...
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Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

M William Phelps · HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook

In September 2011, M. William Phelps made a bold decision that would change the landscape of reality-based television-and his own life. He asked a convicted serial killer to act as a consultant for his TV series. Under the code name "Raven," the murderer shared his insights into...
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