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The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now

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Report copyright infringementby Bakari Sellers (Author)"Toni Morrison once said, 'The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.' In The Moment, Bakari Sellers brilliantly and precisely cuts through the noise of the calculated, well-financed, and relentless campaign by conservative media, think tanks, and politicians to end the post-George Floyd 'racial reckoning' and reverse the civil rights victories of the past fifty years. This is a must-read!"--Joy-Ann Reid, New York T...

A Pioneer in the Cause of Freedom: The Life of Elisha Tyson

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua D. Rothman (Author)Descended from German Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century, Elisha Tyson was born in 1749. As a young man he became wealthy in the milling business in northeastern Maryland before moving in the early 1780s to Baltimore, where he grew even wealthier and established a reputation as a prominent member of the city's business community. Over the course of more than three decades in the late eighteenth and e...

Chomp Press Pull: Stories of a Sensory Self

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Report copyright infringementby Elaina Battista-Parsons (Author)"Parsons' writing hits right to the core, conjuring smells of grandma's kitchen and summoning the feeling of scratchy shag carpet on a hot summer's day." Jocelyn Mackenzie, Recording Artist, Righteous Babe RecordsGrowing up in a time when sensory dysregulation wasn't in our vocabulary felt like a daily obstacle course-the victory being not throwing up in the backseat of a hot Buick station wagon, or the pure freedom to dance one'...

Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Slice (Author)"A glorious, revelatory book."--Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of An Immense World "A beautiful, transformative book about being a parent in a world that rejects frailty and weakness."--Rachel Aviv, staff writer at the New Yorker A paradigm shifting look at the landscape of disabled parenting--the joys, stigma, and discrimination--and how disability culture holds the key to transforming the way we all raise our kids ...

Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Sancton (Author)Song for My Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era. Contemporaries of Louis Armstrong, most of them had played in local obscurity until Preservation Hall launched a nationwide revival of interest in traditional jazz. They called themselves "the mens." And they welcomed the young apprentice into their ran...

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Report copyright infringementby Roger L. Rondeau (Author)Wheel of Life is an adventure novel that comes in many forms. It travels through time from the mid-1600s until today. It depicts a clan immigrating from Normandy, France to the New World in Canada. Then after being deported moving along the southern and central frontier of the United States back to homesteads in central Alberta. Finally, the movement of the next generation to the great North of Canada, the Yukon. It depicts true Canadia...

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Blind Drunk: A Sober Look at Our Boozy Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Veronica Woodruff (Author)Society's dependence on alcohol goes far beyond the physical. We drink to celebrate, commiserate, socialize and mark the passage into adulthood. Individuals who opt out with or without a drinking problem must re-invent themselves in multiple contexts. Combining memoir and analysis, author Veronica Woodruff chronicles the evolution of one family's drinking culture against the backdrop of society's quest for a healthy relationship with a...

You and Your Social Security Disability Benefits

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Buck (Author)During his four-year battle to receive Social Security Disability Benefits, Jack Buck lost everything -- his home, savings, and worst of all...hope. In 2006 he won the battle and promised he would write a book helping those facing the same frustrations. This book is the culmination of that promise and is an essential tool for those facing the same difficulties. Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN ...

Rac(e)Ing To The Right: Selected Essays George S. Schuyler

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Report copyright infringementby George S. Schuyler (Author)"Rac(e)ing to the Right is a great read and brings overdue attention to one of the most popular and controversial African American writers in history. . . . These writings reveal both the presence and the limits of conservatism in the African American intellectual tradition."-Jeffrey A. Tucker, University of Rochester From the 1920s to the 1970s, George S. Schuyler was one of the country's most prolific-and controversial-observers of...

The Indians Of The Pikes Peak Region: Including An Account Of The Battle Of Sand Creek, And Of Occurrences In El Paso Country, Colorado (1914)

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Report copyright infringementby Irving Howbert (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number o...

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Report copyright infringementby Aaron Karo (Author)From Aaron Karo, stand-up comic and acclaimed author of Ruminations on College Life and Ruminations on Twentysomething Life, comes I'm Having More Fun Than You, an irreverent exploration of why guys embrace bachelorhood and love flying solo in their twenties and thirties.Front JacketWhy settle down when you can hook up?Happily married people and perpetually single people are similar: We've both given up on dating and have merely chosen differ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Z. Kushner (Author)The evolution of Ernest Bloch's music is traced throughout his travels in Europe and America. A complete picture of Bloch emerges from this integrated study of his life and his music. The opening biographical chapter provides a brief, personal history from which Bloch's career and many interests follow, including his pursuits in photography. The biographical information provides the framework for addressing the Jewish Question, a common...

I Was Told There'd Be a Village: Transforming Motherhood Through the Power of Connection

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Wirt (Author)Melissa Wirt recounts her journey and dozens of others in building a supportive "village" to transform oppressive, solitary motherhood into a connected--even joyful--endeavor. Melissa Wirt thought she had everything--she'd built her own company and moved to a beautiful farm with her family. Then during a personal crisis, she realized that despite having created an online community reaching thousands of moms, she'd also somehow, become utte...

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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Report copyright infringementby Salman Rushdie (Author)NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Town & Country, New York Post, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman ...

Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

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Report copyright infringementby Tommy Tomlinson (Author)"Delightful." --Town & Country - "Extraordinary...Tomlinson's book is a gem." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) - "Moving...Really broke me." --The Washington Post - "This book wants to lick your face. Let it." --Kirkus Reviews Pulitzer Prize finalist Tommy Tomlinson explores the bond between dogs and their people in this irresistibly appealing, inside account of the Westminster Dog Show that follows one dog on his quest to become a champ...

The Book of Possibilities: Words of Wisdom on the Road to Becoming

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Report copyright infringementby Bee Quammie (Author)Bee Quammie invites women and girls everywhere to embrace the power of possibility in this intimate and empowering collection. A successful Black woman in media, Bee Quammie often finds herself being cast as a role model for young women--and especially Black women and other women of colour. But Bee has never quite been comfortable with the idea of being a role model for the next generation. Who is she to suggest anyone live the way she has? ...

An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Ursula Pike (Author)Now in paperback: a gripping, witty travel memoir that offers "a fascinating look at voluntourism from an Indigenous perspective" (Book Riot)"Ursula Pike's memoir is unlike any other I've read, with her perceptive, always-seeking, and lovely narrative voice." --Susan Straight, author of Mecca"This book is alive with a spirit that welcomed mine to meet it." --Elissa Washuta, author of White MagicWhen she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a...

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Report copyright infringementby Gemini (Author)A snapshot of the style and music icon's career, family life and achievements.You can try and shoehorn Pharrell Williams into one category of creative, but he wears way too many hats for that (including of course his signature "Big Hat", debuted at the 2014 Grammys). He's a musician, rapper, producer, fashion designer and style icon. Pharrell is the epitome of effortless cool.Musically, his own catalogue is impressive in its own right; he's produ...

Defying the Diagnosis: How to Reclaim Your Mental Health and Thrive

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Report copyright infringementby Azi Jankovic (Author)Are you one in a position of leadership and influence who desires to become well acquainted with the largest generation in the history of the world? Would you like to know the part you play in drawing this unique crowd to your influence?ANSWER THE CALLThose of us who came before the millennials are now calculating their endowment, their inheritance, place, and worth in society. They are not a generation forgotten, nor should they fall betwe...

Diary of a Foster Kid: My Survival Story

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Report copyright infringementby Sara-Ann Poirier (Author)Can saving a child's life be as easy as picking up a book? In this case, it might be. Join the author, Sara, through the true horrors of her life as a child taken into foster care far too late. Learn to look for early signs of child abuse and when it should be reported. Get a first-hand account on transitioning into foster care, being moved through multiple foster homes, and aging out of foster care alone. Childhood trauma affects every...

Spaces for Nostalgia: Difficult Memories and Material Consolations

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Report copyright infringementby Mario Panico (Author)How is nostalgia expressed through space? Studies of nostalgia have long illustrated the emotional dynamics which condition our desire to go back to a time and a space that belong to the past. This book addresses this condition from an innovative perspective, by over-exposing the spatial dimension of nostalgia. Doing so unveils alternative and complementary ways of thinking through how this emotion is activated: in particular, how space - u...

The Memoir of Ilse Seger: Wife, Mother, Hostage, Nazi Resister

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Kravetz (Editor), Mark Brandt (Epilogue by)Elisabeth "Ilse" Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March 5, 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. A week later, the Nazis arrested him and held him in "protective custody" for three months in a local prison in Dessau and then sent him to Oranienburg concentration camp for six months, until...

I Have Come a Long Way: A Memoir of Immigration

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Eyamba (Author)Patricia Eyamba built a prosperous life in Nigeria. She started her career as a journalist, steadily climbed the ranks at a global non-governmental organization (NGO), and even founded a successful international catering business. Despite them both being well into middle age, she and her husband decided to give it all up so that their son would have a greater global perspective.As new arrivals in Canada, they soon realized that, even in ...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph C. Robert (Author)The Story of Tobacco in America by Robert, Joseph C. is a comprehensive book that delves into the history of tobacco in America. The book is divided into several chapters, each of which covers a specific aspect of the tobacco industry in America. The first chapter provides an overview of the history of tobacco in America, starting from the Native American use of tobacco in rituals to the introduction of tobacco as a commercial crop by t...

Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings Of

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Report copyright infringementby William Seraile (Author)John Edward Bruce (1856-1924) witnessed the dying days of American slavery, the turbulence of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and the development of American imperialism. As a journalist, historian, and bibliophile, he was a major figure in African American history and politics during his lifetime. In this first intellectual biography of Bruce-a prolific writer and correspondent who published most frequently under...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Michaels (Author)In this "disarmingly amiable reminiscence" (The Atlantic Monthly) that "may be the best argument for the left since Marx" (The New Yorker), poet and writer Lisa Michaels blends memoir with social commentary to tell a remarkable tale of growing up as a child of political activists during the early seventies. Michaels's upbringing was marked by communes, rallies, and road trips; as a young girl she traveled across the country with her mother...

Down Around Midnight: Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Sabbag (Author)Around midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England Flight 248, en route from New York, crashed into the woods on Cape Cod. The pilot was killed, and the survivors struggled to escape the wreckage and wait for rescue. They survived with trauma both physical and emotional. Robert Sabbag was among them. This is his gripping account of the crash and his candid attempts, and those of the other survivors, to come to terms with its aftermath. Fast...

Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Judith N. McArthur (Author), Harold L. Smith (Author)The principal orchestrator of the passage of women's suffrage in Texas, a founder and national officer of the League of Women Voters, the first woman to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas, and a candidate for that state's governor, Minnie Fisher Cunningham was one of the first American women to pursue a career in party politics. Cunningham's professional life spanned a half century, thus illuminating our u...

Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Drucker (Author)*An Inside Hook Book You Should Be Reading This April*"Funny, genuine and knowledgeable about something that meant so much to all of us." --Ben Schwartz A hilarious and nostalgic memoir about the video games that entertain and inspire us, and even hold the power to transform our lives, from an Emmy(R)-nominated television writer, stand-up comedian and former writer for Nintendo.At the ripe age of three, Mike Drucker got his very first Ninte...

Heroes and Other Mortals: Stories of Our Better Angels

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Report copyright infringementby Frye Gaillard (Author), Cynthia Tucker (Foreword by)Frye Gaillard did not set out to write this book. One day as he was thumbing through a cardboard box of his essays, columns, and profiles, he simply realized that he had done it. Each article told the story of a person standing against social injustice or exploring the pain and ambiguity of the human condition. By blending interviews and stories of well-known figures like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sidney Poitie...

A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Green (Author)The rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind America's first public school for mentally disabled peopleFrom the moment he became superintendent of the nation's oldest public school for intellectually and developmentally disabled children in 1887 until his death in 1924, Dr. Walter E. Fernald led a wholesale transformation of our understanding of disabilities in ways that continue to influence our views today. How did the man who design...