Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven...
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Author: Young, KevinSummary:Genre: History and geography, Social science, Anecdotes
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Author: Deutsch, KevinSummary:
A veteran crime reporter goes undercover to investigate how two honor-roll high school students became the tech-entrepreneurs of the opiate trade during the 2015 Baltimore riots.
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Author: Ro, RoninSummary:
In three decades, Prince has had nearly thirty albums hit the Billboard Top 100. This is the first book to fully trace his rise from anonymity in the 1970s to his leap to stardom in the 80s and...
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Author: Smith, CharlieSummary:
Haunted by his mother's disappearance, Delvin Walker rides the rails, falls in love, and sees an America sliding into the Great Depression. But as he is pushed deeper into the darkness of...
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Author: Benjamin, J. M.Summary:
In Las Vegas, Nevada, also known as Sin City, anything goes. This is why the Double G's have chosen to set up shop here. Starrshima Fields, aka Starr, is a young, bodacious, and bold beauty. She...
Genre: Urban fiction -
Author: McCall, NathanSummary:
Barlowe, an African American in his forties, rents a ramshackle house in Atlanta's old Fourth Ward. When a white couple buys and renovates the house next door, fear and suspicion build as the...
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Author: Tyson, Neil deGrasseSummary:
When the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood, Americans rallied behind this extraterrestrial underdog. Pluto is entrenched in our cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos...
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Author: Bass, S. JonathanSummary:
Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in...
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Author: Lambert, G. L.Summary:
You are the type of woman a man marries... yet you settle for being just another girl men string along. Regardless of what commitment level you find yourself in, if you have yet to receive the...
Genre: Self-help publications -
Author: Seckin, TamerSummary:
Endometriosis is a physically and mentally debilitating disease that has tortured women for centuries. This guide will arm women with the truth about the disease so that they can overcome their...
Genre: Young adult nonfiction -
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This anthology presents forty narratives, both nonfiction and fiction, that together capture the impact and complexity of Alzheimer's and other dementias on patients as well as their...
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Author: Doctorow, CorySummary:
A man known as Hubert, Etc. finds he has no place in society except among the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on those taking the morning commute. Falling in with...
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Author: Jones, Stephen MackSummary:
Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African American father and a Mexican mother, August grew up in Detroit's Mexicantown and...
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Author: Younge, GarySummary:
Award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It's a searing portrait of youth, family, and the way that lives...
Genre: Political science, Social science -
Author: Chang, JeffSummary:
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by...
Genre: History and geography, Music