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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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Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the "Pill Mill Killer"

PHILIP EIL - Steerforth
Format: Hardcover

An obsessive true crime investigation of a bizarre and unlikely perpetrator, who's serving the opioid epidemic's longest term for illegal prescriptions - four life sentences Written in the tradition of I'll Be Gone in the Dark and True Crime Addict, combining Dopesick's...
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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States

Ana Raquel Minian - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant detention in the United States, deepening urgent national conversations around migration.. In 2018, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at the US-Mexico border under Trump's...
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon...
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Sheridan's Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War

Robert Cwiklik - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

A deeply researched, narrative history recounting the little-known late-Reconstruction era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union Army hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black citizens, who were under siege by violent paramilitary...
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If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

Vicki Sokolik - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth - told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends'...
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Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family

Mark Daley - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

A heartrending and unforgettable memoir of an unlikely journey to parenthood through America's broken foster care system.. What does it take to keep a child safe? As a long-time strategist and activist fighting for better outcomes for foster children, Mark Daley thought he had the answer....
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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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Create Your Own Employee Handbook: A Legal & Practical Guide for Employers

Lisa Guerin - NOLO
Format: Hardcover

Avoid legal problems and run a productive workplace with an up-to-date employee handbook!. . Anyone who hires and supervises employees needs clear policies when it comes to crucial issues like pay and overtime, medical leave, and social media. Create Your Own Employee Handbook provides...
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We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity

Phillip C. McGraw Ph.D. - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved television host comes We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity, a new book on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families and re-embrace self-determination and self-governance.....
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