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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

by Damon Tweedy M.D.

Published: 2016-09-06

Paperback: 304 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEARA LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK SELECTION • A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE BOOK SELECTIONOne doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health probl...

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Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age

by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

Published: 2016-10-18

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A New York Times Editor’s Pick“It is a blunt observation, reflective of the potent message she delivers to her readers, a skillful unraveling of the myth of the submissive Muslim woman and a timely introduction to those other, very American and largely unheard 9/11 kids who bear the d...

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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

by Jacob A. Riis

Published: 2015-12-17

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2015 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published in 1890, this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. "How the Other Half Lives: Studies...

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The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

Published: 2014-11-29

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The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Many readers were most concerned with his exposure of health violations...

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Sanctuary: The Corrected Text

by William Faulkner

Published: 1993-12-06

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A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of ven...

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Craving Grace: A Story of Faith, Failure, and My Search for Sweetness

by Lisa Velthouse

Published: 2011-05-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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For Lisa Velthouse’s whole life, Christianity had been about getting things right. Obeying her parents. Not drinking. Not cursing. Not having premarital sex. Vowing to save her first kiss until she got engaged, even writing a book called . . . well, Saving My First Kiss. (This, it turns ...

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Breaking Busy: How to Find Peace and Purpose in a World of Crazy

by Alli Worthington

Published: 2016-01-26

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Have you ever felt like a fraud or failure as you struggle to find balance in life? Do you find yourself juggling everything in mediocrity and feeling like you're succeeding at very little? In her no-nonsense way, Alli Worthington tackles the big questions about finding happiness and one's...

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Twelve Years a Slave (the Original Book from Which the 2013 Movie '12 Years a Slave' Is Based) (Illustrated)

by Solomon Northup

Published: 2014-01-01

Paperback: 202 pages

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Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton picker....

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The Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love

by Melissa Fay Greene

Published: 2016-05-17

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder.The Underdogs t...

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Fresh Disasters: A Stone Barrington Novel

by Stuart Woods

Published: 2007-09-04

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From the New York Times bestselling author A chance encounter with a small-time crook sends Stone Barrington straight into the heart of New York's mafia underworld...