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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

by Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington

Published: 2018-02-27

Hardcover: 416 pages

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A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent livesAfter two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued...

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They Called Us Enemy

by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott

Published: 2019-07-16

Paperback: 208 pages

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A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.G...

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The Oysterville Sewing Circle: A Novel

by Susan Wiggs

Published: 2019-08-13

Hardcover: 384 pages

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“Stitched together with love, this is a story just waiting for your favorite reading chair. With her signature style and skill, Susan Wiggs delivers an intricate patchwork of old wounds and new beginnings, romance and the healing power of friendship, wrapped in a lovely little community ...

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Fiddler's Curse: The Untold Story of Ervin T. Rouse, Chubby Wise, Johnny Cash, and The Orange Blossom Special (Revised and Updated)

by Randy Noles

Published: 2007-07-07

Paperback: 226 pages

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Fiddle). One of the most bizarre stories in all of popular music is the history of "Orange Blossom Special," arguably the century's best-known fiddle tune. The man credited with its ownership, Ervin T. Rouse, endured tragedy, alcoholism and mental illness. He spent his last years fiddling for tips in...

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La forma de las ruinas / The Shape of Ruins (Spanish Edition)

by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Published: 2016-04-05

Paperback: 396 pages

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En la lista de los mejores libros de Publishers Weekly del 2018 La forma de las ruinas es al mismo tiempo una intriga de investigadores e investigados, una novela profundamente autobiográfica y una intensa exploración histórica. La novela más importante de Juan Gabriel Vásquez.«Las ...

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36 Hours: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Blackout)

by Bobby Akart

Published: 2019-03-26

Hardcover: 230 pages

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO if a voice was screaming in your head - GET READY . . . for a catastrophic event of epic proportions . . . with no idea where to start . . . or how, or when? This is a true story, it just hasn't happened yet. A new dystopian, post apocalyptic fiction series from award-w...

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Reading behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian

by Jill Grunenwald

Published: 2019-07-02

Hardcover: 360 pages

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In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master’s degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, how...

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The Making of Asian America: A History

by Erika Lee

Published: 2016-08-16

Paperback: 528 pages

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A “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject.In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the faste...

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Old Curiosity Shop (Wordsworth Classics)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 1998-01-05

Paperback: 608 pages

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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the...

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Hemingway Library Edition

by Ernest Hemingway

Published: 2019-07-16

Hardcover: 576 pages

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Presented by Hemingway's grandson Seán Hemingway, with a personal foreword by the author’s son Patrick Hemingway, this new enhanced Library Edition of Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece about an American in the Spanish Civil War features early drafts and supplementary material, including th...