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  • VIVIANE
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    VIVIANE
    JULIA DECK
    Winner of the inaugural French Voices Award: “[A] masterfully conceived debut, arelentless tale, intricately and irresistibly told” (La Quinzaine Littéraire).   Only once in a great while does a new novel come along that takes a literary scene by storm, demonstrating real innovation in the craft of storytelling. Julia Deck provides this force in Viviane—the first debut novel in...

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  • KINDERGARTEN
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    KINDERGARTEN
    JULIE DIAMOND
    “[Diamond] has captured the world of the class—at times chaotic, always busy, usually inspired”— Essential reading for parents and teachers alike (Los Angeles Times).   Hailed by renowned educator Deborah Meier as “a rare and special pleasure to read,” Kindergarten explores a year in the life of a kindergarten classroom through the eyes of the gifted veteran teacher and author ...

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  • HOLD FAST TO DREAMS
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    HOLD FAST TO DREAMS
    BETH ZASLOFF / JOSHUA STECKEL
    An “invaluable” memoir by a counselor who left the elite private-school world to help poor and working-class kids get into college (Washington Monthly).   Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award   Joshua Steckel left an elite Manhattan school to serve as the first-ever college guidance counselor at a Brooklyn public high school—and has helped hundreds of disadvantaged kids gai...

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  • THE SELF BEYOND ITSELF
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    THE SELF BEYOND ITSELF
    HEIDI M. RAVVEN
    “Intertwines history, philosophy, and science . . . A powerful challenge to conventional notions of individual responsibility” (Publishers Weekly).   Few concepts are more unshakable in our culture than free will, the idea that individuals are fundamentally in control of the decisions they make, good or bad. And yet the latest research about how the brain functions seems to poi...

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  • DIVIDED
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    DIVIDED
    DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
    Essays on the dangers of the wealth and income gap, collected by the New York Times–bestselling author of It’s Even Worse Than You Think.   This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, and David Cay Johnston—illuminating the reality of economi...

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  • KILL KHALID
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    KILL KHALID
    PAUL MCGEOUGH
    “Meticulously researched . . . This is the definitive chronicle of the Middle East crisis during the Clinton years and in the post-9/11 era” (Publishers Weekly).   “Providing a fly-on-the-wall vantage of the rising diplomatic panic that sent shudders through world capitals,” Kill Khalid unfolds as a masterpiece of investigative journalism (Toronto Star). In 1997, the Israeli in...

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  • BILL MOYERS JOURNAL
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    BILL MOYERS JOURNAL
    BILL MOYERS
    A companion volume to the Emmy Award–winning PBS® series—interviews with “an essential voice in our national conversation” (Brian Williams, MSNBC anchor).   This “provocative” and “absorbing” (Star Tribune) companion book to Bill Moyer’s acclaimed PBS series invites readers into conversations with some of the most captivating voices on the scene today, in what Kirkus Reviews ca...

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  • THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW JOY
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    THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW JOY
    ALICE WALKER
    A poetry collection of “playful and crooning lyricism” from the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Booklist).   In this dazzling new collection, Alice Walker offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a “lavishly gifted writer,” Walker imbues her poetry with evocative images, fresh language, anger...

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  • THE LAST THREE MILES
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    THE LAST THREE MILES
    STEVEN HART
    An investigative history of Depression Era power brokers and labor wars in the construction of the Pulaski Skyway across the New Jersey Meadowlands.   In the 1930s, as America’s love affair with the automobile began, cars and trucks leaving the nation’s largest city were dumped out of the Holland Tunnel onto local roads winding through New Jersey swampland. The Pulaski Skyway, ...

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  • THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN POWER
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    THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN POWER
    IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
    The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this “lucid, informed, and insightful” account (The New York Times).   The United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control.   The Unite...

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  • HARD TIMES
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    HARD TIMES
    STUDS TERKEL
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review).   In this “invaluable record” of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politi...

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  • WORKING
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    WORKING
    STUDS TERKEL
    A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe   A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller   Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from ...

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  • P.S.
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    P.S.
    STUDS TERKEL
    This “electrifying” collection of unpublished work demonstrates the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “great gift for tapping into the lifeblood of America” (Booklist).   Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prize-winning oral historian through his landmark books—“The Good War”, Hard Times, Working, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, and many others. Few people realize,...

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  • FACELESS KILLERS
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    FACELESS KILLERS
    HENNING MANKELL
    A #1 international bestseller: This “exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth” launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh (Los Angeles Times).   Early one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying be...

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  • THE WHITE LIONESS
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    THE WHITE LIONESS
    HENNING MANKELL
    A small-town murder leads to international intrigue in this “first-class thriller” from the New York Times–bestselling master of Scandinavian crime (The New York Times Book Review).   Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell’s award-winning, internationally-bestselling detective novels, this time to investigate the execution-style killing of a Swedish h...

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  • CHASING GIDEON
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    CHASING GIDEON
    KAREN HOUPPERT
    The Washington Post reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into the nation’s crisis of indigent defense—“a hugely important book” (New York Law Journal).   A Nieman Report’s Top Ten Investigative Journalism Books of 2013   First published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed all criminal defendants the r...

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  • THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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    THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION
    RAY RAPHAEL
    The original rebels: “Brings into clear focus events and identities of ordinary people who should share the historic limelight with the Founding Fathers.” —Publishers Weekly   According to the traditional telling, the American Revolution began with “the shot heard ’round the world.” But the people started taking action earlier than many think. The First American Revolution uses...

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  • BE HONEST
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    BE HONEST
    N?NIVE CALEGARI, NEKO CASE
    Students speak up about American education in this book from 826 National, the celebrated tutoring center founded by Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari.   This unique volume collects personal essays, letters, and stories by dozens of high school students who were given the chance to speak their minds about their own education. From letters to their teachers to essays and vignettes...

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  • A BUFFALO IN THE HOUSE
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    A BUFFALO IN THE HOUSE
    R. D. ROSEN
    From a #1 New York Times–bestselling author, “a heartwarming tale of bonding between people and animals” (Booklist).   A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl’s ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised tw...

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  • FIREWALL
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    FIREWALL
    HENNING MANKELL
    An international bestseller: Murder becomes a high tech game of cat and mouse in this “thinking man’s thriller” from the master of Nordic noir (The New York Times Book Review).   Ystad, Sweden. A man stops at an ATM during his evening walk and inexplicably falls to the ground dead. Two teenage girls brutally murder a taxi driver. They are quickly apprehended, shocking local pol...

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  • THE FIFTH WOMAN
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    THE FIFTH WOMAN
    HENNING MANKELL
    From the #1 international-bestselling master of Scandinavian noir: a “marvelously told mystery” of murder in Sweden and corruption in Africa (Austin American-Statesman).   In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are found with their throats slit. The local police do little to investigate . . . and cover up the unknown woman’s death. A year later in Swed...

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  • SIDETRACKED
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    SIDETRACKED
    HENNING MANKELL
    A demented killer is on the warpath and only Wallander can stop him: “Mankell at his best . . . If you haven’t bought Sidetracked, do so ASAP” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).   Inspector Kurt Wallander’s long-anticipated vacation plans are interrupted by two horrific deaths: the self-immolation of an unidentified young woman and the brutal murder of the former minister of just...

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  • FATAL INVENTION
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    FATAL INVENTION
    DOROTHY ROBERTS
    An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era.   Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscit...

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  • THE NEW BLUE MEDIA
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    THE NEW BLUE MEDIA
    THEODORE HAMM
    A look at the journalists and satirists who’ve helped transform the political landscape in the twenty-first century.   The New Blue Media traces the rise during the Bush years of new media stars: the news-saturated satire of The Onion, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report; the polemical assaults of Michael Moore and Air America; and the instant-messaging politics of MoveOn, D...

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  • SLAVERY AND PUBLIC HISTORY
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    SLAVERY AND PUBLIC HISTORY
    “A fascinating collection of essays” by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery (Booklist Online).   In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America’s history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine ...

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  • ENDING POVERTY IN AMERICA
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    ENDING POVERTY IN AMERICA
    An “engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).   Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in “near poverty”? In this book, some of the country’s most ...

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  • PLAYING IN THE LIGHT
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    PLAYING IN THE LIGHT
    ZOË WICOMB
    “In her ambitious third novel, Wicomb explores South Africa’s history through a woman’s attempt to answer questions surrounding her past” (The New Yorker).   Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Windham Campbell Prize winner Zoë Wicomb’s celebrated novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates traveling, and who, in post-apartheid society, ...

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  • THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT
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    THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT
    JOHN NICHOLS
    A more-timely-than-ever argument that impeachment is an essential American institution from the author of Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse.   This surprising and irreverent book by one of America’s leading political reporters makes the case that impeachment is much more than a legal and congressional process—it is an essential instrument of America’s democratic system. Articles of...

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  • IRAQ AND THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM
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    IRAQ AND THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM
    GARDNER, LLOYD C. / YOUNG, MARILYN B.
    Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer “history at its best, meaning, at its most useful.” —Howard Zinn   From the launch of the “Shock and Awe” invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush’s declaration of “Mission Accomplished” two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively that the United States had ...

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  • KIDS FOR CASH
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    KIDS FOR CASH
    WILLIAM ECENBARGER
    The shocking true story of corrupt judges who made millions by sending children to a private juvenile detention facility: “A harrowing tale, lucidly told” (The New York Times Book Review).   In this sensational work of true crime that reads like a thriller, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter William Ecenbarger exposes a long-running scandal that ruined thousands of young lives. In...

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