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If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Geraldine DeRuiter - Crown
Format: Hardcover

From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.. "With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves."...
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There Is Only One America

Jason Chaffetz - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author, Fox News contributor, and former Congressman Jason Chaffetz reveals how an unelected bureaucracy--and not just the government--is infringing on our rights.For years, many Americans have increasingly felt that their votes don't change things. While...
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The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World

Mason Funk - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal...
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A Warning

Anonymous - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.
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How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged

Kimberly Jones - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

"""So if I played 400 rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for 50 years, every time that I played, if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win?...
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Courage Under Fire: Under Siege and Outnumbered 58 to 1 on January 6

Steven A. Sund - Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
Format: Hardcover

One of the darkest days in American history became an extraordinary story of courage under fire.Courage Under Fire is United States Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund's gripping personal account that takes readers inside the events leading up to January 6, and provides a detailed and harrowing...
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George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father

David O. Stewart - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Washington's rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his midtwenties, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined his own military career thanks to an outrageous ego. But by his midforties, that headstrong, unwise young man had evolved into an unassailable...
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Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

Steven Levitsky - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late - from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die. America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have...
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Libraries in the Information Age: An Introduction and Career Exploration, 3rd Edition

Denise K Fourie - Libraries Unlimited
Format: eBook

Since the second edition of this must-have book was published in late 2009, libraries have undergone profound changes, primarily linked to advances in technology. We've seen the debut of RDA, the release of new Pew Research library and Internet use data, and the establishment of digital...
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The Sociology Book

Christopher Thorpe - DK Publishing
Format: Print book

The Sociology Book takes on some of humankind's biggest questions: What is society? What makes it tick? Why do we interact in the way that we do with our friends, coworkers, and rivals? The Sociology Book profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their...
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