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Random House Digital
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color. WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine,...
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The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1867) is the best account of the history and workings of the British political system ever written. As arguments raged in mid-Victorian Britain about giving the working man the vote, and democracies overseas were pitched into despotism and civil war, Bagehot took a long, cool look at the "dignified" and "efficient" elements which made the English system the envy...
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Random House Digital
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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The #1 New York Times bestseller.“This is the book Trump fears most.” - Axios“Will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come.” - Joe Klein, The New York Times"A uniquely illuminating portrait." - Sean Wilentz, The Washington Post“[A] monumental look at Donald Trump and his presidency.” — David Shribman, Los Angeles TimesFrom the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined...
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Highbridge Co
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it?In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern...
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
It’s often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality is far worse: the war is hot, and the body count is one-sided.
China is killing Americans and working aggressively to maximize the carnage while our leaders remain passive and, in some cases, compliant. Why?
If anyone could crack the code, it’s the renowned nonpartisan investigator
...6) School Moms
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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An investigative study of the far-right’s attack on education and an on-the-ground look at the parent activist battle, on either side of the debate, to control the future of public schoolsFor well over a century, public schools have been a non-partisan gathering place and vital center of civic life in America—but something has changed. In School Moms, journalist Laura Pappano explores the on-the-ground story of how public schools across the country...
7) Sparks
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2024
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English
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Sparks tells the story of how underground writers, filmmakers, and journalists have been able to bypass China's legendary surveillance state to reveal the truth of Communist Party rule: from famines and purges of years past to ethnic clashes and virus outbreaks of the present. Ian Johnson spent nearly a decade on the ground with these outlaw historians, tracing their history back to the origins of the Communist Party last century and their new, nationwide...
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Random House Digital
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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A potent and electrifying critique of today's feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminismToday's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the...
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Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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“EL MEJOR LIBRO DEL AÑO”The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Shelf Awareness • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews El racismo es, en su esencia, un sistema poderoso que crea falsas jerarquías de los valores humanos; su lógica distorsionada se extiende más allá de la raza: desde la forma en que consideramos a las personas de diferentes etnias o colores de piel hasta el modo en que...
10) If I Survive
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Barbara Miller Books
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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“If I Survive.” This thought haunted Lena. Her loved ones were cruelly forced from her arms in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland and perished in Treblinka Death Camp. This is a true story of Holocaust survival. In ww2 books, it is a searing story of human rights abuses and genocide.The story of Nazi Germany and the Jews is a story of anti-Semitism, Nazi concentration camps, gas chambers and World War 11 (wwii). The Warsaw ghetto where the Nazis had...
11) Overstated
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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This program is read by the author.In Colin Quinn's new book, the popular comedian, social commentator, and star of the shows Red State Blue State and Unconstitutional tackles the condition of our union today.Utah: The Church of StatesVermont: The Old Hippie StateFlorida: The Hot Mess StateArizona: The Instagram Model StateWisconsin: The Diet Starts Tomorrow StateThe United States is in a fifty-states-wide couples’ counseling session, thinking about...
12) Why They Marched
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Blackstone Pub
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. But Susan Ware uncovered a much broader and more diverse story...
13) Looking Deeply
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New Dimensions Foundation
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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This is a thought-provoking interview with a frank and powerful thinker and writer. Alice Walker reminds us of the importance of invisible forces and connections between worlds that science has not yet acknowledged. She tells how her own life is informed by a host of "ancestors" and characters from her own writing, and how this provides her with strength and a broad perspective on world history and current situations
14) Secondhand Time
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Publisher
Random House Digital
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia.When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre", describing her work as "a history of emotions—a history of the soul". Alexievich's distinctive documentary...
15) Prequel
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Random House Digital
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. “A ripping read—well rendered, fast-paced and delivered with the same punch and assurance that she brings to a broadcast. . . . The parallels to the present day are strong,...
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Highbridge Co
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Americans today are confronted by a barrage of questions relating to their free speech freedoms. What are libel laws, and do they need to be changed to stop the press from lying? Does Colin Kaepernick have the right to take a knee? Can Saturday Night Live be punished for parody? While citizens are grappling with these questions, they generally have nowhere to turn to learn about the extent of their First Amendment rights.The Fight for Free Speech...
17) The New Jim Crow
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such...
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Random House Digital
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Discover the inspiring story of the first black woman elected to Congress and to run for president in this picture book biography from a Newbery Honor-winning author and a Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning illustrator.Meet Shirley, a little girl who asks way too many questions! After spending her early years on her grandparents' farm in Barbados, she returns home to Brooklyn and immediately makes herself known. Shirley kicks...
20) Palestine 1936
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"Kessler’s history is key to understanding the current situation between Israelis and Palestinians." —Booklist, Starred Review Palestine 1936 chronicles the 1936–1939 Great Arab Revolt, a seminal but forgotten uprising a decade before Israel’s birth that has cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict ever since.
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