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Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

Dan Lyons - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Why do so many Americans hate their jobs? From New York Times bestselling author Dan Lyons, Lab Rats is a groundbreaking, incisive examination of how the internet--and ideas championed by Silicon Valley powerbrokers--changed the way we work, damaged our brains, and left us poorer...
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To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

Bret Baier - Custom House
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author and anchor of Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier comes a riveting reassessment of Ulysses S. Grant, arguing that the great Civil War commander's battle to save the Union continued to the very end of his presidency when a crisis threatened...
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Saga of Chief Joseph, Bison Classic Edition

Helen Addison Howard - Bison Books
Format: Paperback

In Saga of Chief Joseph, Helen Addison Howard has written the definitive biography of the great Nez Perce chief, a diplomat among warriors. In times of war and peace, Chief Joseph exhibited gifts of the first rank as a leader for peace and tribal liberty. Following his people's internment...
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Classand What We Can Do About It

Richard Florida - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement...
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What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action

Jane Fonda - Random House Large Print
Format: Large Print

A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest"This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean...
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide

Tony Horwitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young...
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Washington's Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben

Josh Trujillo - Abrams ComicArts - Surely
Format: Hardcover

A graphic novel biography of Baron von Steuben, the soldier, immigrant, and flamboyant homosexual who influenced the course of US history during the Revolutionary War despite being omitted from our textbooks. Author Josh Trujillo and illustrator Levi Hastings tell the true story of one of the most...
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Heartland Skies (Second Chances Book 1)

MELODY CARLSON - WhiteFire Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Jayne Morgan has a lot to learn about love. Harris McAllister has a lot to learn about tolerance. When they meet they have lots to teach each other.Jayne feels betrayed when her fiancé suddenly dumps her for his high school sweetheart just weeks before the wedding. She'd love to leave...
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Reference and Information Services: An Introduction, 6th Edition

Melissa A. Wong
Format: Hardcover(6th ed.)

This revised and updated sixth edition of Reference and Information Services continues the book's rich tradition, covering all phases of reference and information services with less emphasis on print and more emphasis on strategies and scenarios.Reference and Information Services is the go-to...
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Been There, Done That: Family Wisdom For Modern Times

Al Roker - New American Library
Format: Print book

Life lessons from New York Times bestselling author and Today show personality Al Roker and his wife, globetrotting ABC news journalist Deborah Roberts. Al Roker and Deborah Roberts have sixteen Emmy Awards between them. They have covered everything from the Olympics and the Gulf...
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