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Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan

The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Melody Ermachild Chavis; Foreword by Alice Walker St. Martin's Griffin

The unforgettable story of how one woman dared to start a revolution. Meena founded RAWA in 1977 as a twenty-year-old Kabul University student. She was...

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Deep Economy

The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Bill McKibben St. Martin's Griffin

“Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.”—Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest...

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The Breaking Point

How Today's Women Are Navigating Midlife Crisis

Sue Shellenbarger Holt Paperbacks

“[The Breaking Point] suggests that the national conversation is about to have a hot flash. The passage through middle age of so large a clump of women . . ....

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The Trouble with Islam Today

A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith

Irshad Manji St. Martin's Griffin

"I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me.... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims are conspiring...

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The Meaning of Wife

A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the Twenty-first Century

Anne Kingston Picador

Delving into the complex, troubling, and sometimes humorous contradictions, illusions, and realities of contemporary wifehood, this book takes the reader on a...

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The World Is Flat 3.0

A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Thomas L. Friedman Picador

A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly...

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Audie Award Winner - Nonfiction-Unabridged

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Having a Child Without Losing Yourself

Amy Richards Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

For contemporary women, motherhood has become as polarizing a proposition as it is a powerful calling. For some women this tension is manifest in a debate over...

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Too Late to Die Young

Nearly True Tales from a Life

Harriet McBryde Johnson Picador

A Washington Post Book World Rave Harriet McBryde Johnson's witty and highly unconventional memoir opens with a lyrical meditation on death and ends...

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Bait and Switch

The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

Barbara Ehrenreich A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism”—The New York Times Book...

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The Assassins' Gate

America in Iraq

George Packer Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle...

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Ace of Spades

A Memoir

David Matthews Picador

A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are David Matthews was born on the line between races. His mother was white, but she...

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The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]

A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman’s account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications...

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Sophie's World

A Novel About the History of Philosophy

Jostein Gaarder; Translated by Paulette Møller 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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The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0]

A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman’s account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications...

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Soldier's Heart

Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point

Elizabeth D. Samet Picador

Includes a New Afterword by the Author A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A USA Today Best Book of 2007 A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of...

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L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner

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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The Israel Lobby,” by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the...

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