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Medgar and Myrlie
Joy-Ann Reid - HarperAudio Format: Hardcover
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Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family.
Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating... |
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Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
Trish O'Kane - Ecco Format: Hardcover
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In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid... |
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Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
Philippa Gregory - HarperOne Format: Hardcover
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"Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating... |
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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
Amitav Ghosh - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family -- the climax of a yearslong project.When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis trilogy ten years ago, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century... |
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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
John O'Connor - Sourcebooks Format: Hardcover
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From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?Journalist and writer John O'Connor takes readers on a narrative quest through the American... |
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The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in hand. The revolutions that raged across Europe and the Americas over seven decades, from 1760 to 1825, created... |
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Loved Egyptian Night: The Meaning of the Arab Spring
Hugh Roberts - Verso Format: Hardcover
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Why did the Arab Spring have such calamitous outcomes?. Loved Egyptian Night fundamentally reassesses the Arab Spring, refuting the stories the Western powers fed to the world. There is no doubt that the toppling of Ben Ali in Tunisia in January 2011 and what it led to amounted to a political... |
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Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
Jared Cohen - Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most powerful job in the world: President of the United States. Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington's departure after two terms... |
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