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Returning to the Lakota Way: Old Valu...

Joseph M. Marshall

     In Returning to the Lakota Way, prolific author Joseph Marshall presents the follow-up to his highly regarded book The Lakota Way. Using beautiful storytelling to relay traditional tales passed down through the generations, M...

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Published: Nov 2014

The American Way of Eating: Undercove...

Tracie McMillan

What if you can't afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost—which is...

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Published: Apr 2012

Native American Healing Meditations: ...

Lewis Mehl-Madrona MD

PWestern medicine often sees healthcare as a battle against a disease or injury. Healers from the Native American tradition believe that true healing comes through dialogue--in which we open ourselves to the wisdom our afflictions hav...

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Published: Jun 2011

Love Warrior: A Memoir

Glennon Doyle Melton

#1 New York Times BestsellerOprah's Book Club 2016 SelectionA memoir of marriage and self-discovery by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are all born to be warriors: st...

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Published: Sep 2017

Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy...

Anna Merlan

A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyondAmerican society has always been fertile ground for consp...

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Published: Apr 2020

A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary S...

Caroline Moorehead

In January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance weresent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied theircountry. This is their story, told in full for the first time—a searing andunforgettable chronicle of ter...

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Published: Oct 2012

Voices in the Stones: Life Lessons fr...

Kent Nerburn

“Do not begrudge the white man his presence on this land. Though he doesn’t know it yet, he has come here to learn from us.”— A Shoshone elderThe genius of the Native Americans has always been their profound spirituality and t...

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Published: Dec 2016

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Se...

Jenny Nordberg

An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girlIn Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and t...

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Published: Jul 2015

What French Women Know

Debra Ollivier

Unabridged CDs ? 6 CDs, 7 hours/BBRBRA primer on the ineffable, Ije ne sais quoi appeal of the French woman.BRBR

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Published: Sep 2009

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Ri...

Anne Helen Petersen

**One of NPR’s Best Books of 2017** “Petersen's gloriously bumptious, brash ode to nonconforming women suits the needs of this dark moment. Her careful examination of how we eviscerate the women who confound or threaten is cruci...

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Published: Aug 2018

Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yoursel...

Evy Poumpouras

Former Secret Service agent and star ofBravo'sSpy Games Evy Poumpouras shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in the world to help you prepare for s...

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Published: Apr 2020

The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women ...

Lynn Povich

The inspiration for the original television seriesIt was the 1960s––a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the “Help Wanted” ads were segregated by gender and the “Mad Men” office...

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Published: Sep 2016

Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking ...

Eyal Press

"A fascinating study in the better angels of our nature."—George Packer, The New Yorker A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice History has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but what about its flip si...

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Published: Feb 2013

I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overco...

Terrence Real

Each year, millions of men and women fall prey to depression. While the disorder has been called "psychiatry's most treatable condition," less than one in five get help. In recent years, the silence surrounding depression in...

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Published: Dec 2011

Ghost Soldiers of Gettysburg: Searchi...

Jack Roth

Discover the paranormal legacy of one of America's most celebrated historical sites. Based on scores of investigations conducted at the battlefield, Ghost Soldiers of Gettysburg presents a wealth of fascinating Civil War history and c...

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Published: Oct 2014

Celtic Mythology: The Nature and Infl...

Ward Rutherford

This is a lively and absorbing account of the world of Celtic myth and the role it has played in the development of western culture. Included here are:

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Published: May 2015

Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret ...

David E. Sanger

FROM INSIDE OBAMA'S SITUATION ROOM . . . THE CRITICAL MOMENTS IN THE COVERT WAR AGAINST IRAN, THE STRUGGLES TO DEAL WITH A RECALCITRANT PAKISTAN AND ITS FAST-GROWING NUCLEAR ARSENAL, THE TENSIONS WITH THE AMERICAN MILITARY OVER AFGANI...

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Published: Jun 2012

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Mo...

Jennifer Senior

[Read by the author -- Jennifer Senior]Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: What are the effects of children on their parents? -- In All Joy and ...

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Published: Jan 2014

Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Wa...

Mychal Denzel Smith

New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceHow do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon M...

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Published: Oct 2017

A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Or...

Thomas Sowell

In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and self...

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Published: May 2011

A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Or...

Thomas Sowell

In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and self...

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Published: May 2011

Everybody Lies; Big Data, New Data, a...

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveal...

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Published: May 2017

The Future of the Professions: How Te...

Richard Susskind

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teach...

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Published: Apr 2016

The Federal Reserve Conspiracy

Antony C. Sutton

Another fine and extremely well researched work by Antony C. Sutton. An expose' of the people and forces behind the takeover of the US economy by the Federal Reserve system, on behalf of the oligarchs. A must for anyone interested in...

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Published: Feb 2014

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison...

Heather Ann Thompson

WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE 2017 BANCROFT PRIZENATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK FOR 2016 * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE BO...

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Published: Aug 2017

Just Like Us: The True Story of Four ...

Helen Thorpe

Just Like Us tells the story of four high school students whose parents entered this country illegally from Mexico. We meet the girls on the eve of their senior prom in Denver, Colorado. All four of the girls have grown up in the Unit...

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Published: May 2011

Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election Tha...

Rebecca Traister

Big Girls Don't Cry offers a startling appraisal of the 2008 presidential campaign and brilliantly demonstrates that it was transformative for American women and for the nation. The campaign for the presidency reopened some of the mos...

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Published: Jun 2011

Everything You Wanted to Know about I...

Anton Treuer

"I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.' I took a friend to see Dances with...

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Published: May 2012

Dirty Kids: On the Road with Tramps, ...

Chris Urquhart

"An illuminating and memorable twenty-first-century journey. From this angle, Burning Man looks bourgeois." —Ted Conover, author of Newjack and The Routes of ManAt age twenty-two, writer Chris Urquhart left a life of middl...

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Published: Sep 2017

Race Matters

Cornel West

With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Mattersaffirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America?s ongoing racial debate.Cornel West is at the fo...

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Published: Jan 1994
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