“An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors - It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together...
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Author:Mbue, ImboloSummary:A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream-the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends...
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Author:Dobkin, DonaldSummary:Mayor Bloomberg of New York City has described America's immigration policy as the greatest case of national suicide ever seen. Immigration lawyer Donald Dobkin decided to write a book on immigration in the belief that the American...
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In 1861, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men's clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army. Emma had fooled her own army, but...
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Author:Smiley, Tavis, Ritz, DavidSummary:Tavis Smiley provides a glimpse into the final weeks of Michael Jackson's life in this honest yet celebratory book. Listeners will witness Jackson's campaign to recharge his career while his one goal remained: to mount the most...
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Author:Divakaruni, Chitra BanerjeeSummary:The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her...
- Author:Nutt, Amy EllisSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and...
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Author:Yalom, Irvin D.Summary:Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. Not simply a man's life story, this is Yalom's...
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Author:Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, Obstfeld, RaymondSummary:Like many kids, Kareem, known then as Lew Alcindor, struggled to fit in, please a strict father, and deal with severe shyness. Unlike most, he had to grapple with a growth spurt that shot him up taller than everyone else. Also, the...
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Author:Stein, AbbySummary:Abby Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. She made a personal exodus from ultra-...
- Author:Purnell, DereckaSummary:
For a century, US activists have tried to reform the police. Lawyer and organizer Derecka Purnell details what pushed her and a generation of activists to the idea of abolishing the police. She argues that police cannot be reformed and...
- Author:Marron, CatieSummary:
To make her new house in Connecticut truly feel like home, Catie Marron decided to create a garden. In this book, Marron chronicles her transformation into a gardener over the course of 18 months.
- Author:Ward, Annie NighSummary:
Maddie and Ian's romance began with a chance encounter overseas. Now, married with an infant son and a suburban home, years of love, fear, adventure and suspicion culminate in a killing.
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Beating the devil out of them : corporal punishment in American families and its effects on childrenAuthor:Straus, Murray A.Summary:Based on his studies of over 9,000 families, Murray A. Straus, the foremost researcher on family violence in the world, discusses the extent to which parents in the United States use corporal punishment (such as spanking and slapping)...
- Author:Weiss, JoshSummary:
Set in an alternate US during the height of the Red Scare, this is the story of a country where terror and paranoia rises unchecked, and one LAPD detective stumbles on a dangerous conspiracy.
- Author:Yerkes, Leslie, Decker, CharlesSummary:
Based on the success story of a small Seattle coffee shop, this audiobook is a tasty brew of sound principles and instructive anecdotes.
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Author:Carlson, GretchenSummary:When Gretchen Carlson made the decision to "walk off the set" and speak up about sexual harassment in the workplace, women all over the world joined the movement and began to take back their lives, careers, and dignity. Gretchen became...
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Author:Thompson, DaveSummary:The Bayou is a world of its own — a marshy, sometimes treacherous, oft-times sinister land of creeping darkness and living shadows, secret legends and vivid mythology. It is that darkness and those shadows that permeate Bayou...
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Author:Smith, Joshua M.Summary:Battle for the Bay explores a new chapter in the history of the War of 1812. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between privateers and small government vessels boiled in the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine. Three...
- Author:Uslan, MichaelSummary:
In this memoir, Michael E. Uslan, executive producer of the Batman movie franchise, offers an insider's look at Hollywood and the process of how movies and television shows go from the drawing board to your screen.
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