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Our Little Secret: The True Story of a Teenage Killer and the Silence of a Small New England Town
$7.99 Add to cartThe true story of a teenage killer and the silence of a small New England town.
For twenty years Daniel Paquette’s murder in New Hampshire went unsolved. It remained a secret between two high school- Author: Flynn, Kevin
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0425234657
- Language: English
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Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
$28.00 Add to cartIn this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang
life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth
portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigati… [more below]- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162428
- Language: English
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Failure Factory: How Baltimore City Public Schools Deprive Taxpayers and Students of a Future
$39.95 Add to cartBaltimore City Public Schools is one of America’s largest and most funded school systems. Yet, historically, it is among the lowest performing. In 2024, despite a $1.7 billion budget, just 10% of stud
- Author: Papst, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888193501
- Language: English
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Run Zohran Run!: Inside Zohran Mamdani’s Sensational Campaign to Become New York City’s First Democratic Socialist Mayor
$19.95 Read moreA gripping inside look at how Zohran Mamdani’s bold, grassroots campaign toppled New York’s political establishment and delivered the city’s most progressive mayoral victory.
Grounded in firsthand know
- Author: Hamm, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1682194469
- Language: English
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The Sewards of New York: A Biography of a Leading American Political Family
$37.95 Add to cartThe Sewards of New York shines a light on one of the most important and fascinating political families of the nineteenth century. Through recently discovered family correspondence, Thomas P. Slaughter
- Author: Slaughter, Thomas P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501782657
- Language: English
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Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles
$28.95 Add to cartLIBERALS WITH ATTITUDE DOCUMENTS THE SIXTEEN MONTHS IN 1991-92 between the brutal beating of Rodney King by four police officers that was captured on a home video camera and the resignation of LAPD c
- Author: Goldberg, Danny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1636142591
- Language: English
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A History of Sautee Nacoochee
$34.95 Add to cartVirtually every landscape is a palimpsest, created by the imprint, however ephemeral, that people have left everywhere they have been. As one peels back layers of history, the true nature of a place c
- Author: Jones, Tommy Hart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820369586
- Language: English
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The Banks We Deserve: Reclaiming Community Banking for a Just Economy
$27.00 Add to cartWe’ve never done anything big in this country without little banks. Yet the number of community banks in the US has been steadily declining for decades, giving way to big banks that have little connec… [more below]
- Author: Perry Abello, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833401
- Language: English
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The City Is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis
$28.99 Add to cart“Gregory Pratt had a rare front-row seat to the passions, problems, peculiarities, hopes, disappointments, shenanigans, and pettiness in the drama and farce that was Lori Lightfoot’s uneasy tenure on
- Author: Pratt, Gregory Royal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1641605995
- Language: English
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Behind the Badge
$32.99 Add to cartFirst responders run toward things the rest of us run away from.
What makes a person want to become a first responder? Who would become a cop after her brother died in the line of duty? What guy reject
- Author: Jones, Johnny Joey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 63432102
- Language: English
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The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers
$34.95 Add to cartHow Mayor Ray Flynn’s leadership and a coalition of activists transformed Boston, challenging established powers and setting new precedents for urban governance
The Battle for Boston captures the rema- Series: Polis: Fordham Urban Studies
- Author: Gillis, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509835
- Language: English
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Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back
$27.99 Add to cartWinner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize
A groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against their local and state governments to keep their communities safe, by an award-winning jou… [more below]- Author: Spivack, Miranda S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978555
- Language: English
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Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself
$18.99 Add to cartThe must-have guide for young progressives looking to run for local office, complete with contributions from elected officials and political operatives.
You’ve been depressed since the night of Novemb- Author: Litman, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1501180444
- Language: English
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The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
$32.00 Add to cartAlexis Madrigal reveals how understanding Oakland explains the modern world.
In The Pacific Circuit, the award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland th- Author: Madrigal, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0374159408
- Language: English
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I Ain’t Resisting: The City of Greensboro and the Killing of Marcus Smith
$20.00 Add to cartIn September of 2018, Marcus Deon Smith, a Black man who had committed no crime, died in the custody of the Greensboro Police Department. His death was eventually ruled a homicide.
Ian McDowell explor
- Author: McDowell, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1959104012
- Language: English
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Son of Birmingham
$30.00 Add to cartToday’s Birmingham–led by Mayor Randall Woodfin–is a phoenix rising from the ashes of systemic racism and white flight.
This first Southern city to pluck the feathers off Jim Crow, where peaceful p- Author: Woodfin, Randall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9.7989E+12
- Language: English
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The Daley Show: Inside the Transformative Reign of Chicago’s Richard M. Daley
$34.95 Add to cart“You have to have passion. You have to have honesty in office. You have to love the people.” Those words summed up the outlook, if not always the actions, of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Elected to… [more below]
- Author: Claypool, Forrest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0252046196
- Language: English
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Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power
$29.00 Read moreThe untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turned a Deep South state purple–by a top reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Flipped is the def- Author: Bluestein, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0593489152
- Language: English
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The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
$65.00 Add to cartThe companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration … [more below]- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307268969
- Language: English
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The Urbanist: Dan Doctoroff and the Rise of New York
$65.00 Read moreAn unprecedented look at the central role one man played in the transformation of New York City
Daniel L. Doctoroff served as New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding betwee
- Author: Bloomberg, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 490
- Publish Date: April 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936326
- Language: English
