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The Great Believers: A Novel

by Rebecca Makkai

Published: 2019-06-04

Paperback: 448 pages

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FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTIONWINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy Poehler“A page turner . . ....

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ACEL Todd Whitaker Set: Leading School Change (Volume 1)

by Todd Whitaker

Published: 2018-06-21

Paperback: 188 pages

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Being a cheerleader for innovation or change is great. Implementing specific strategies to increase the likelihood of success is essential. In this key book from bestselling author and speaker Todd Whitaker, you’ll discover clear ways to lead and manage school change by setting realistic...

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ACEL Todd Whitaker Set: What Great Principals Do Differently (Volume 2)

by Todd Whitaker

Published: 2011-11-03

Paperback: 160 pages

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Inspire yourself and others with the second edition of this best-selling book. With heartfelt advice, practical wisdom, and examples from the field, Todd Whitaker explains the qualities and practices that distinguish great principals. New features include: Developing an accurate sense of ...

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Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster

by Andrew Leatherbarrow

Published: 2016-04-16

Paperback: 256 pages

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At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated and inaccurate...

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A Nearly Normal Family: A Novel

by M.T. Edvardsson

Published: 2019-06-25

Hardcover: 400 pages

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"...A compulsively readable tour de force." ?The Wall Street JournalNew York Times Book Review recommends M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family and lauds it as a “page-turner” that forces the reader to confront “the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we believe ...

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The Boy on the Bridge

by M. R. Carey

Published: 2018-02-20

Paperback: 432 pages

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If you fell in love with Melanie in the million-copy-selling post-apocalyptic phenomenon The Girl With All the Gifts---there's more to the story...Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their g...

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Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

by Roger McNamee

Published: 2019-02-05

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who wakes up to the serious damage Facebook is doing to our society - and sets out to try to stop it. If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he wou...

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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

by Chris Arnade

Published: 2019-06-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

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"A profound book.... It will break your heart but also leave you with hope." --J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy"[A] deeply empathetic book." --The EconomistWith stark photo essays and unforgettable true stories, Chris Arnade cuts through "expert" pontification on inequality, addiction...

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Blown

by Mark Haskell Smith

Published: 2018-06-12

Paperback: 304 pages

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Hailed as “the slightly more well-adjusted offspring of Hunter S. Thompson and James Ellroy” (Los Angeles Times), Mark Haskell Smith returns with a wildly entertaining satire of corporate greed, sexual desire, and crime in the global financial services industry. Bryan LeBlanc worked hi...

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The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero

by Michael Kranish

Published: 2019-05-07

Hardcover: 384 pages

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In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure—the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era.In t...