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The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend” (Publishers Weekly)–the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world’s fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Cro… [more below]
- Author: Kranish, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1501192604
- Language: English
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The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us, an “extraordinary” (The Denver Post) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school and their compassionate teacher and “a… [more below]
- Author: Thorpe, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1501159100
- Language: English
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Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice
$26.00 Read moreFrom beloved New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Anita Diamant comes a timely collection of essays to help inspire period positive activism around the globe.
When Period. En- Author: Diamant, Anita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1982144289
- Language: English
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Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a “thought-provoking meditation” (Seattle Times) and epic tour through American crime–now av… [more below]
- Author: James, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 141655274X
- Language: English
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The Idealist
$21.99 Add to cartThis smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society–and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of R… [more below]
- Author: Peters, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1476767742
- Language: English
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The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt
$20.00 Add to cartAward-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection of wry, irreverent essays reflecting on the many … [more below]
- Author: Giffels, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1451692749
- Language: English
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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
