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The White Album
Essays

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the...
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Interesting Times
Writings from a Turbulent Decade

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Throughout his career as a journalist, George Packer has always been attuned to the voices and stories of individuals caught up in the big ideas and events of...
  
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Mommy's Little Girl
Casey Anthony and her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate

St. Martin's True Crime
When news broke of three-year-old Caylee Anthony’s disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across the...
  
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Beyond America's Grasp
A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
AN INCISIVE “WHITE PAPER” ON THE UNITED STATES’S STRUGGLE TO FRAME A COHERENT MIDDLE EAST POLICY In this book, the Middle East expert Stephen P. Cohen...
  
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Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement
Beyond Borders

Palgrave Macmillan
In a clear and accesible style, this book theorizes female movement within narratives of enslavement and advocates for a changed black female consciousness...
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Time
Big Ideas, Small Books

Picador
Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG...
  
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A Promise to Ourselves
A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce

St. Martin's Griffin
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Saving Cinnamon
The Amazing True Story of a Missing Military Puppy and the Desperate Mission to Bring Her Home

St. Martin's Press
Set against the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan, Saving Cinnamon chronicles the love story of Navy Reservist Mark Feffer and a stray puppy he bonded with...
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Christmas Miracles
Foreword by Don Piper, Author of 90 Minutes in Heaven

St. Martin's Press
Celebrate the season of hope and miracles with these inspiring true stories that will warm the heart and touch the soul… A man lies gravely ill in the...
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Behind the Wheel - German 2

Behind the Wheel
Now that you know the basics of German, put your knowledge into practice with the unique stories and dialogue lessons offered in German Level 2. Read a story...
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The Good Soldiers

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It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. “Many listening...
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Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By in America

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The World Is Flat 3.0
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced,...
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In the Middle of the Night
The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood

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The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William Petit and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to raise their two lovely...
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

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Thomas L. Friedman’s phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant,...
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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Picador
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges...
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Sophie's World
A Novel About the History of Philosophy

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers...
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Accomplice to Evil
Iran and the War Against the West

Truman Talley Books
From Accomplice to Evil: “The world is simmering in the familiar rhetoric and actions of movements and regimes—from Hezbollah and al Qaeda to the Iranian...
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They Must Be Stopped
Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It

St. Martin's Press
They Must Be Stopped is New York Times bestselling author Brigitte Gabriel’s warning to the world: We can no longer ignore the growth of radical Islam--we...
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The Limits of Power
The End of American Exceptionalism
American Empire Project

A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
“Andrew Bacevich speaks truth to power, no matter who’s in power, which may be why those of both the left and right listen to him.”—Bill Moyers An immediate...
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The Ice Man
Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

St. Martin's Paperbacks
He was Sammy the Bull Gravano’s partner in the killing of Paul Castellano. John Gotti hired him to torture and kill his neighbor. A favorite among all the...
  
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House of Evil
The Indiana Torture Slaying

St. Martin's True Crime
In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid 1960’s, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a thirty-seven-year-old mother and...
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The Wrecking Crew
How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation

Holt Paperbacks
From the most astute political scoffer since H. L. Mencken, the definitive account of the conservative reign of misrule and corruption Hailed as a “hunk of...