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How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir

Cameron Russell - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from the model and activist who helped organize the movement to bring equity to the fashion industry.. Now I measure the distance from model to president. You can see it in pictures. It's...
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Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order

Daniel Deudney - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

By the last decade of the twentieth century, the great questions of modernity seemed to be answered. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and global communism, the liberal democratic capitalist project seemed to be the only one left standing, and in the 1990s the "liberal ideal"...
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This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot - from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz. "This American Ex-Wife is a bomb, a bouquet (but not a wedding...
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White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Tom Schaller - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A searing portrait and damning takedown of America's proudest citizens - who are also the least likely to defend its core principles. "This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump."...
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Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

Peter Schweizer - Harper
Format: Hardcover

It's often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality is far worse: the war is hot, and the body count is one-sided.China is killing Americans and working aggres­sively to maximize the carnage while our leaders remain passive and, in some cases, compliant. Why?If anyone...
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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama...
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, inspiring true stories as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.. To be a bookseller or librarian ... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker....
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Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration

Harold Holzer - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

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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The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America

Saket Soni - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023. Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize. The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor - an "eye-opening" "must-read" told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape...
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Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women

Pashtana Durrani - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

From young Afghani activist and Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador Pashtana Durrani, a deeply inspiring memoir about the power of learning and the value of educators in their many forms - from teachers, mentors, and role models, to fathers, mothers, and any one of us with the drive...
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