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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley)

by Malcolm X

Published: 1992-09-29

Hardcover: 528 pages

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ONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYIn the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Bl...

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Chess with the Doomsday Machine (Bibliotheca Iranica; Persian Fiction in Translation)

by Habib Ahmadzadeh

Published: 2007-11-30

Paperback: 268 pages

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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Published: 1985-02-12

Paperback: 447 pages

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Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four...

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The Great Depression: A Diary

by Benjamin Roth

Published: 2010-08-31

Paperback: 288 pages

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When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary.This collection of those entries reveals another side of th...

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America for Beginners: A Novel

by Leah Franqui

Published: 2018-07-24

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Recalling contemporary classics such as Americanah, Behold the Dreamers, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a funny, poignant, and insightful debut novel that explores the complexities of family, immigration, prejudice, and the American Dream through meaningful and unlikely friendsh...

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Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

by Jennifer Palmieri

Published: 2018-03-27

Hardcover: 192 pages

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Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling volume of inspiring advice by the former communications director for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Framed as an empowering letter from former Hillary Clinton Communications Director Jennifer...

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Reinas malditas / Damned Queens (Spanish Edition)

by Cristina Morató

Published: 2016-01-26

Paperback: 472 pages

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Las fascinantes vidas de seis reinas marcadas por la tragedia que no pudieron elegir su destino y que dejaron una profunda huella en la Historia.Excéntricas, caprichosas, rebeldes, ambiciosas... Más allá de un mundo de privilegios, riqueza y poder, todas fueron mujeres de carne y hueso ...

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Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant (Latinos in Chicago and Midwest)

by Jose Angel N.

Published: 2014-01-24

Paperback: 136 pages

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A day after N. first crossed the U.S. border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, N. crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States forever. Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant is his timely and ...

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You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories

by Curtis Sittenfeld

Published: 2018-04-24

Hardcover: 240 pages

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“Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible“I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, a...

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America and Its Guns: A Theological Expose

by James E. Atwood

Published: 2012-06-01

Paperback: 250 pages

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James Atwood contends that the thirty thousand gun deaths America suffers every year cannot be understood apart from our national myth that God has appointed America as "the trustee of the civilization of the world" and even "Christ's light to the nations" Because these purposes are noble, and we are...