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Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride
Nadina LaSpina - New Village Press
Format: Paperback
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A memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina La Spina's story -- from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence... |
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Eagle Down: The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War
Jessica Donati
Format: Hardcover
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In 2015, the White House claimed triumphantly "the longest war in American history is over." But for some, it was just the beginning of a new and covert war, fought far from public view, with limited resources, little governmental oversight, and contradictory orders. Take Hutch,... |
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The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende - Random House Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Paperback
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"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without "resources or voice." Isabel became a fierce and defiant little... |
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The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
Kara Dixon Vuic - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.The emotional toll of war can be as debilitating to soldiers as hunger, disease, and injury. Beginning in World War I, in an effort... |
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The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama
GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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New York Magazine national correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti reveals an inside look at the historically close, complicated, occasionally co-dependent, and at-times uncertain relationship between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.Delving far deeper than the simplistic "bromance" narrative... |
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The January 6th Report
SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL. - Celadon Books
Format: Paperback
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Celadon Books and The New Yorker present the report by the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan 6 Attack on the United States Capitol.On January 6, 2021, insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol, an act of domestic terror without parallel in American history, designed to disrupt the peaceful... |
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Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
Harold Holzer - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War.. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States,... |
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Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS
Azadeh Moaveni - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Based on years of immersive reporting, Pulitzer finalist Azadeh Moaveni has written a gripping account of thirteen women as they joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped life in the Islamic State. Among the many books trying to understand the terrifying rise of ISIS, none has given... |
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Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
Ava Chin - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Book Prize and a New York Public Library Cullman fellow, comes a sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family's epic journey to lay down roots in AmericaAs the only child of a single mother in Queens,... |
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