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Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
Laura Coates - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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When Laura Coates joined the Department of Justice as a prosecutor, she wanted to advocate for the most vulnerable among us. But she quickly realized that even with the best intentions, “the pursuit of justice creates injustice.”
Through Coates’s experiences,... |
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How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis
William Briggs - University of New Mexico Press
Format: Paperback
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In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author's thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue,... |
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Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
Kennedy Odede - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover
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Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof.This is the story of two young people from completely different... |
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China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World
Liang Hong - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society,... |
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The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
Alexandra Robbins - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Nursing is more than a career; its a calling and one of the most important, fascinating, and dangerous professions in the world. As the frontline responders battling traumas, illnesses, and aggression from surprising sources, nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects... |
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50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution
Katherine Spillar - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of Ms. - the most startling, most audacious, most norm-breaking of the magazine's groundbreaking pieces on women, men, politics (sexual and otherwise) , marriage, family, education, work, motherhood, and reproductive rights, as well as the best of the magazine's fiction,... |
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Becoming Heroines: Unleashing Our Power for Revolution and Rebirth
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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You were born with massive reservoirs of strength, confidence, and creativity. But oppressive structures that keep you "in your place" have disconnected you from your natural gifts. The decision to recover and reclaim your latent ability follows a path forged by myth and legend:... |
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