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Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Michele Norris - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.. The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Story. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging...
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Return from Siberia

John Shallman - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

In the midst of running a long-shot political campaign, Democratic political consultant John Simon discovers a 100-year-old manuscript written by his grandfather Joseph - a brilliant young revolutionary whose exile to Siberia by the last czar of Russia is just the beginning of an extraordinary...
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What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being, and Lightness of Soul

Deepak Chopra - Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Basis for the upcoming PBS Special!After promoting this message worldwide for thirty years, bestselling author Deepak Chopra focuses on the huge problem of weight control in America with exciting new concepts. What Are You Hungry For? is the breakthrough book that can bring weight...
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Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul

Brandy Schillace - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become...
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Cooking at Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes

David Chang - Clarkson Potter; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

Being a chef can make you the worst kind of home cook. Either you're too fussy when dinner just needs to be on the table or, as Momofuku chef Dave Chang will tell you about his early years in the industry, you just . . . never cook at home. But now, with a family to feed, Dave faces...
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Born For This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do

Chris Guillebeau - Crown Business
Format: Print book

Have you ever met someone with the perfect job? To the outside observer, it seems like they've won the career lottery -- that by some stroke of luck or circumstance they've found the one thing they love so much that it doesn't even feel like work - and they're getting paid well to do it. To the outside...
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Anne Applebaum - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults, nationalist movements, or one-party states.Across the world today, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond,...
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Rubber Band Charm Jewelry: Popstar bracelets & rings that sparkle and shine

Maggie Marron - Taunton Press
Format: Book

The Rainbow Loom, Cra-Z Loom, and Fun Loom have taken the tween set by storm--girls and boys alike are wearing all sorts of bracelets and other jewelry with colorful rubber bands.  This booklet offers all the basics for weaving bracelets with a loom or without, along with 12 rubber...
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These Truths: A History of the United States

Jill Lepore - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller. In the most ambitious one volume American history in decades, award winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American...
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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

KEVIN YOUNG - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover

Has the hoax now moved from the sideshow to take the center stage of American culture?Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue's gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers -- from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk...
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