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I Know You're Out There: Private Longings, Public Humiliations, and Other Tales from the Personals I Know You're Out There: Private Longings, Public Humiliations, and Other Tales from the Personals
by Michael Beaumier
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Love lost, found, and kicked around “It might be my imagination, but it seems like most people in the building tend to steer clear of me. Im the one who gets the weird phone calls, the strange visitors, and disturbing mail.” “My last... (read more)
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Jesus Land Jesus Land
by Julia Scheeres
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This riveting memoir is the story of a 16-year-old girl and her adopted, black, 16-year-old brother in Indiana who are sent to a reform school in the Dominican Republic by their violent father and distant mother more involved with her church's... (read more)
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Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language

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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
by Simon Schama
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Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and... (read more)
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Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life
by Philip Garrison
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For Mexican workers, the agricultural valleys of the inland Northwest are a long way from home. But there they have established communities, settlements recent enough that it feels like these newly arrived immigrant mexicanos are pioneers, still getting... (read more)
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9/ 11 and American Empire (06 Edition) 9/ 11 and American Empire (06 Edition)
by Griffin
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Were the military and the FAA really that incompetent? Were our intelligence-gathering agencies really in the dark about 9/11? How could so much go wrong at once, in the world's strongest and most technologically sophisticated country? Both the... (read more)
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River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
by William D. Layman
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The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and The Media That Love Them The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and The Media That Love Them
by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
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The acclaimed host of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! challenges the corporate and political hypocrisy that has silenced America. Her comments turned Charlie Rose red in the face. Bill Clinton called her "hostile, combative, and even disrespectful."... (read more)
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The Emperor's Children The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
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From a writer "of near-miraculous perfection" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation" (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor's Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the... (read more)
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Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry
by Travis Bradford
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In Solar Revolution, fund manager and former corporate buyout specialist Travis Bradford argues, on the basis of standard business and economic forecasting models, that over the next two decades solar energy will increasingly become the best and... (read more)
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