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The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey

by Roger Cohen

Published: 2015-12-08

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In his intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history—a memoir of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love—award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate and discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. Beginning in the nineteenth century a...

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To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War (City Lights Open Media)

by John Gibler

Published: 2011-06-28

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Mexico is in a state of siege. Since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexican have been murdered. During the same period, drug money has infused over $130 billion into Mexico's economy, now the country's single largest source of income. C...

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

by Lila Abu-Lughod

Published: 2015-09-07

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the cont...

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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe

by George Friedman

Published: 2016-02-16

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New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman delivers a fascinating portrait of modern-day Europe, with special focus on significant political, cultural, and geographical flashpoints where the conflicts of the past are smoldering once again.For the past fiv...

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Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

by Anne Garrels

Published: 2017-03-14

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Short-listed for the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeMore than twenty years ago, the NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsk, a gritty military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. The longtime home of the Soviet nuclear program, the Chelyabinsk region contai...

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Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific

by Robert D. Kaplan

Published: 2015-01-06

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMESFrom Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict.   Over the last decade, ...

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Traces of Guilt (An Evie Blackwell Cold Case)

by Dee Henderson

Published: 2016-05-03

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A Riveting Cold-Case Mystery from Dee HendersonEvie Blackwell loves her life as an Illinois State Police detective . . . mostly. She's very skilled at investigations and has steadily moved up through the ranks. She would like to find Mr. Right, but she has a hard time imagining how marriag...

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When My Brother Was an Aztec

by Natalie Diaz

Published: 2012-05-08

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"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone fr...

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A Gate at the Stairs

by Loorie Moore Lorrie Moore

Published: 2010

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Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner AwardFinalist for the Orange Prize for FictionChosen as a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star, Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Real Simpl...

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Too Like the Lightning: A Novel (Terra Ignota)

by Ada Palmer

Published: 2017-01-24

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Compton Crook 35th Award winner and shortlisted candidate for the 2017 Hugo Award Best Novel category, Ada Palmer's political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future of extraordinary originalityMycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is ...