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Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley
Brent Underwood - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more - a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams.. The siren song of Cerro Gordo, a desolate ghost town perched high above Death... |
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
Sarah McCammon - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER. "An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction... |
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
Manisha Sinha - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history. We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create... |
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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime
Casey Sherman - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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The dark story behind the bright lights of TinseltownFrom the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all -- a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating... |
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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
Jane Kamensky - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life -- and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur.... |
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Illiberal America: A History
Steven Hahn - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.A storm of illiberalism,... |
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Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Odie Henderson - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema - the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre - from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin... |
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Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood
Paula Delgado-Kling - OR Books
Format: Paperback
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Set in the author's homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member of the FARC forced into sexual slavery by a commander... |
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
Marion Gibson - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.. Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through... |
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Women in Politics: Breaking Down the Barriers to Achieve True Representation
Mary Chung Hayashi - Mkc Press
Format: Paperback
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"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made."Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's words reflect a reality that has plagued the United States for centuries: We have work to do when it comes to gender-political parity.Still, trailblazing women in government... |
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