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The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America

by Shawn D Rochester

Published: 2018

Perfect Paperback: 138 pages

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In his new book The Black Tax: The Cost of being Black in America, Shawn Rochester shows how The Black Tax (which is the financial cost of conscious and unconscious anti-black discrimination), creates a massive financial burden on Black American households that dramatically reduces their ability to leave...

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Woman on the Edge

by Samantha M. Bailey

Published: 2020-03-03

Paperback: 272 pages

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A moment on the subway platform changes two women’s lives forever—a debut thriller that will take your breath away.A total stranger on the subway platform whispers, “Take my baby.”She places her child in your arms. She says your name.Then she jumps...In a split second, Morgan Ki...

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Black Sunday: A Novel

by Tola Rotimi Abraham

Published: 2020-02-04

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“I like the idea of a god who knows what it’s like to be a twin. To have no memory of ever being alone.”Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty...

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Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry: Stories

by Christine Sneed

Published: 2010-12-22

Hardcover: 152 pages

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The ten stories in this striking debut collection examine the perils of love and what it means to live during an era when people will offer themselves, almost unthinkingly, to strangers. Risks and repercussions are never fully weighed. People leap and almost always land on rocky ground. May-December...

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Dead On Arrival

by Matt Richtel

Published: 2018-11-20

Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages

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“MICHAEL CRICHTON meets STEPHEN KING at their finest … with the creepiest opening I’ve ever read.” — Lisa Gardner * “Joins the ranks of classic paranoid thrillers about human achievement run amok, with STEPHEN KING’s The Stand and Michael Crichton’s Terminal Man.” ...

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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester OBE

Published: 2018-07-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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"The greatest enterprise of its kind in history," was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from t...

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Cisnes Salvajes: Tres Hijas de China (Biografias de Bolsillo) (Spanish Edition)

by Jung Chang

Published: 2005-06-30

Paperback: 560 pages

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A lo largo de esta saga, tan verídica como espeluznante, tres mujeres luchan por sobrevivir en una China sometida a guerras, invasiones y revoluciones. La abuela de la autora nació en 1909, época en la que China era aún una sociedad feudal. Sus pies permanecieron vendados desde niña, y a los quince...

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Tierra desacostumbrada/ Unaccustomed Earth (Spanish Edition)

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Published: 2012-06-21

Paperback: 352 pages

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Wolf Pack (A Joe Pickett Novel)

by C. J. Box

Published: 2019-03-12

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf--only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box.The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The...

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The Ditch: A Novel

by Herman Koch

Published: 2019-06-11

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The bracing and inventive new novel of suspicions and secrecy from Herman Koch, the New York Times bestselling author of The DinnerWhen Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back with laughter while chatting to one of his aldermen at a New Year's reception,...