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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

by Laurence Leamer

Published: 2016-06-07

Hardcover: 384 pages

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history—the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in Ma...

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Minister Without Portfolio

by Michael Winter

Published: 2014-02-25

Paperback: 352 pages

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Henry Hayward has been living life the way he's wanted—working hard, playing hard—but when his girlfriend tells him she's leaving, it destroys him. In a quest to recover, he joins an army-affiliated contracting crew that takes him overseas to a Canadian base in Afghanistan. In the comp...

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Untwine

by Edwidge Danticat

Published: 2015-09-29

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A haunting and mesmerizing story about sisterhood, family, love, and loss by literary luminary Edwidge Danticat.Giselle Boyer and her identical twin, Isabelle, are as close as sisters can be, even as their family seems to be unraveling. Then the Boyers have a tragic encounter that will sha...

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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

by Angela Y. Davis

Published: 2016-02-09

Paperback: 180 pages

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In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, interse...

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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

by Elaine Scarry

Published: 1987-04-23

Paperback: 400 pages

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Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural force...

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The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

by David Quammen

Published: 2015-02-16

Paperback: 176 pages

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In this "frightening and fascinating masterpiece" (Walter Isaacson), David Quammen explores the true origins of HIV/AIDS.The real story of AIDS?how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people?is very different from what mos...

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The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa

by Helen Epstein

Published: 2008-05-27

Paperback: 324 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, whe...

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So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids

by Diane E. Levin Ph.D., Jean Kilbourne Ed.D.

Published: 2009-07-21

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Risqué Halloween costumes for young girls. T-shirts that boast “Chick Magnet” for toddler boys. Sexy content on almost every television channel, as well as in movies and video games. Popular culture and technology inundate our boys and girls with an onslaught of graphic sexual message...

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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Published: 2008-09-23

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   From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.   In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history."  Today these...

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Nerd Do Well: A Small Boy's Journey to Becoming a Big Kid

by Simon Pegg

Published: 2012-06-05

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The unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul, Spaced, and Star Trek. Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise -- actor, comedian, writer, and supergeek Simon Pegg...