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Coal River

Michael Shnayerson Farrar, Straus and Giroux

One of America’s most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are blasting the mountains, decapitating them for...

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The Wrecking Crew

How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation

Thomas Frank 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...

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The Tyranny of Dead Ideas

Revolutionary Thinking for a New Age of Prosperity

Matt Miller St. Martin's Griffin

“Offers the most plausible way to renovate our political and policy thinking to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.”—Joe Klein, Time America is...

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The Terror Dream

Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America

Susan Faludi Picador

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and bestselling author of Backlash, examines America's deeply-rooted attitude toward gender....

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Where China Meets India

Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia

Thant Myint-U Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Thant Myint-U’s Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, and timely book about a remote region that is suddenly becoming a geopolitical center of the...

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Captive

My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban

Jere Van Dyk St. Martin's Griffin

Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for...

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Hot, Flat, and Crowded

Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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This Land Is Their Land

Reports from a Divided Nation

Barbara Ehrenreich A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

America in the ’aughts—hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by one of the country’s most prominent social critics Now in...

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Hell on Earth

The Wildfire Pandemic

David L. Porter with Lee Reeder Forge Books

The world is burning, and it appears that we are to blame. Devastating wildfires are increasing throughout the United States. Each year, more and more acres...

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Our Daily Meds

How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

Melody Petersen Picador

An “angrily illuminating” (The New York Times) exposé of Big Pharma’s corrupting influence in America today In the last thirty years, pharmaceutical companies...

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Beautiful Souls

Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times

Eyal Press Farrar, Straus and Giroux

On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a...

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The Body Toxic

How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being

Nena Baker North Point Press

We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of...

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The Majestic Twelve

The True Story of the Most Feared Combat Escort Unit in Baghdad

Master Sergeant Jack W. Lynch II, USMC (Ret.) with Rick Lynch Thomas Dunne Books

As leader of the unit dubbed “The Majestic Twelve,” the author led his team on what some might call the most dangerous duty in the Iraq War—convoy escort....

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When Men Become Gods

Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back

Stephen Singular St. Martin's Griffin

Features an all-new chapter for this edition New York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular provides an inside look at the Mormon polygamist sect that...

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Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0

Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Thomas L. Friedman Picador

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year A Chicago...

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Counterstrike

The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda

Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker Times Books

Inside the Pentagon's secretive and revolutionary new strategy to fight terrorism--and its game-changing effects in the Middle East and at home In the years...

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La Seduction

How the French Play the Game of Life

Elaine Sciolino Times Books

The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its...

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Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Cape Verdean Women and Globalization The Politics of Gender, Culture, and Resistance Katherine Carter and Judy Aulette Palgrave Macmillan Offering valuable insights into social science methodology and practice, Cape Verde Women and Globalization employs critical ethnography and critical discourse...

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Exiles in Eden

Life Among the Ruins of Florida's Great Recession

Paul Reyes Henry Holt and Co.

An on-the-ground, intimate tour of the human toll of the nation's foreclosure crisis While working with his father's small company that "trashes out"— enters...

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Soul of a Citizen

Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

Paul Rogat Loeb St. Martin's Griffin

Soul of a Citizen has become the handbook for budding social activists, veteran organizers, and anybody who wants to make a change—big or small—in the world...

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Hardcover : $27.00 Buy	Last Chance The Middle East in the Balance David Gardner I.B. Tauris As Barack Obama seeks to chart a new course in American foreign policy, David Gardner addresses the controversial but urgent question: why is the Middle East...

Trade Paperback : $9.99 Buy	The Barack & Michelle Obama Paper Doll & Cut-Out Book John Boswell; Illustrated by Randy Jones & Susann Ferris Jones St. Martin's Griffin The historic journey of Barack and Michelle Obama to the White House is memorialized in this fun yet fashionable paper doll book featuring the Obamas. For the...

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Soft Spots

A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Clint Van Winkle St. Martin's Griffin

A powerful, haunting, provocative memoir of a Marine in Iraq—and his struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in a system trying to hide the damage done...

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Straphanger

Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

Taras Grescoe Times Books

Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation...

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