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Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile jus… [more below]
- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1982116374
- Language: English
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On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
$20.99 Add to cartSoon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C… [more below]
- Series: Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)
- Author: Bundles, A’Lelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0743431723
- Language: English
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In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
$28.99 Read moreIn this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fic… [more below]
- Author: Puglionesi, Alicia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1982116757
- Language: English
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Good Husbandry: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, this “superb memoir chronicles the evolution of a farm, marriage, family, and her own personal identity with humor, insight, and candor” (Publ… [more below]
- Author: Kimball, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1501111655
- Language: English
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Man vs. Baby: The Chaos and Comedy of Real-Life Parenting
$17.99 Add to cartFrom a “hero for dads everywhere” (Daily Mirror), a hilarious, insightful, and heartfelt take on parenting based on a viral blog post that Ashton Kutcher called, “one of the best descriptions of fathe… [more below]
- Author: Coyne, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1501187414
- Language: English
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Best American Poetry 2017
$18.99 Add to cartEdited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers “a vivid s… [more below]
- Series: Best American Poetry
- Author: Lehman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1501127756
- Language: English
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Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78 RPM Records
$18.00 Add to cart“A thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records” (Los Angeles Times), Do Not Sell at Any Price is a fascinating, complex story of preserv… [more below]
- Author: Petrusich, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 145166706X
- Language: English
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Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese
$19.00 Add to cartGoat Song is the story of a year in the life of a couple who abandoned their one-bedroom apartment in New York City to live on seventy-five acres in Vermont and raise Nubian goats. In poetic, reverent… [more below]
- Author: Kessler, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 08 2010
- ISBN10: 1416561005
- Language: English
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Eating the Dinosaur
$18.99 Add to cartAfter a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, returns to the form in which he’s been spectacularly successful with a collection of … [more below]
- Author: Klosterman, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1416544216
- Language: English
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The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes a revelatory, insider’s look at how President Joe Biden and his team have battled to achieve their agenda–based on the author’s ext… [more below]
- Author: Whipple, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1982106441
- Language: English
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
$22.00 Add to cartFrom critically acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd comes an eloquent profile of one of the most intriguing cultural figures of the twentieth century–Zora Neale Hurston.
A woman of enormous talent and- Series: Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)
- Author: Boyd, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 527
- Publish Date: February 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0743253299
- Language: English
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The Other America
$19.99 Add to cartIn the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s … [more below]
- Author: Harrington, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 068482678X
- Language: English
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Both/And: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, this extraordinary memoir from Huma Abedin–Hillary Clinton’s famously private top aide and longtime advisor–offers “a gripping testament to the power of a woman finding … [more below]
- Author: Abedin, Huma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 150119481X
- Language: English
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
$19.99 Add to cartA “constantly captivating…well-researched and often moving” (The Wall Street Journal) history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United S… [more below]
- Author: MacGregor, Iain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1982100044
- Language: English
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
$18.99 Add to cartFrom Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist–an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war.
In Our Bodies, Their Battlefield- Author: Lamb, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 150119917X
- Language: English
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The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
$19.99 Add to cart“An extraordinary piece of history…a fresh and lively read” (The Christian Science Monitor)–the passionate, gripping, true story of one man’s single-minded quest to reclaim his family’s art collect… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1451697643
- Language: English
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The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World’s Most Coveted Fish
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2017 NASW SCIENCE IN SOCIETY JOURNALISM AWARD
A FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
A LIBRARY JO… [more below]- Author: Voigt, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1451678959
- Language: English
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The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef’s Craft for Every Kitchen
$18.99 Add to cartIn The Elements of Cooking, New York Times bestselling author Michael Ruhlman deconstructs the essential knowledge of the kitchen to reveal what professional chefs know only after years of training an… [more below]
- Author: Ruhlman, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 1439172528
- Language: English
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Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific
$22.00 Add to cart“Hallelujah and glory be to Smoke Signals, Martin Lee’s bodacious new book…Lee chronicles everything and everyone worth chronicling in the annals of marijuana” (High Times).
This is the great Americ- Author: Lee, Martin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1439102619
- Language: English
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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments in Modern Law
$20.99 Add to cartThe closing arguments from ten noteworthy cases–“lawyers and nonlawyers will enjoy the passion and eloquence of these counselors; practitioners of law will find much to learn from them” (Los Angeles … [more below]
- Author: Lief, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0684859483
- Language: English
