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I'm Taking My Eggs and Going Home: How One Woman Dared to Say No to Motherhood

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Manterfield (Author)Lisa Manterfield was a sensible 32-year-old when she met The One-a man who sparked a passion for tango, an urge to break down closed doors, and a deep-rooted desire to reproduce. Five years later she was a baby addict, hiding her addiction, plotting a maternity ward heist, and threatening anything that got in her way, including her beloved husband and his pesky practicality. In this gritty and honest memoir, Manterfield traces her spira...

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine Andronik (Author)This book explores how comedian Stephen Colbert's satiric views of American life have captured the imagination of viewers around the world--and sharpened these individuals' own critical interpretations and opinions on current events. Stephen Colbert may be "just a comedian"--one not all audiences find funny, especially among those who have been mercilessly lampooned by him--but there is no arguing that the condescending, bombastic, an...

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Report copyright infringementby Sojourner Truth (Author)Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written, as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. With an eloquence that resonates more than a century after its original publication in 1850, the narrative bears witness to Sojourner Truth's thirty years of bondage in upstate New York and to the mystical revelations that t...

A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing

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Report copyright infringementby Max Podemski (Author)Author BiographyMax Podemski is an urban planner, a writer, and an illustrator who currently serves as a transportation planner for the city of Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, and KCET. His work has been profiled in a range of media, including Curbed, KPCC public radio, and the Jewish Journal. He also runs an architectural print company called Polkela. Number of Pages: 272 ...

The Restorative Rebel: Memoirs and Musings on Internalized Capitalism

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Report copyright infringementby Dani Bicknell M. S. Ed (Author)In The Restorative Rebel: Memoirs &Musings on Internalized Capitalism, Dani Bicknell blends memoir, observation, and sharp critique to help readers navigate and thrive within the complexities of internalized capitalism. This book challenges the deeply ingrained myths surrounding the American Dream and capitalism, offering fresh perspectives on social impact, money, technology, and entrepreneurship. Through a personal lens, Bic...

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Barnes (Author)Fans of Educated by Tara Westover are sure to fall for this "beautifully written" narrative (The New York Times Book Review) of self-discovery and personal triumph from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated memoir In the Wilderness.Here is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman, yearning for an understanding of the world beyond her insular family life, found her way. On the day of her 1976 high school graduation in L...

The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left

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Report copyright infringementby Ed Husain (Author)The true story of one man's journey to Islamic fundamentalism and back Raised in a devout but quiet Muslim community in London, at sixteen Ed Husain was presented with an intriguing political interpretation of Islam known as fundamentalism. Lured by these ideas, he committed his life to them. Five years later, he rejected extremism and tried to return to a normal life. But soon he realized that Islamic fundamentalists pose a threat that most ...

Black Lies, White Lies: The Truth According to Tony Brown

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Brown (Author)PBS television commentator and syndicated radio talk-show host Tony Brown has been called an "out-of-the-box thinker" and, less delicately, and "equal opportunity ass kicker." Those who attempt to pigeonhole him do so at their own peril. This journalist, media commentator, self-help advocate, entrepreneur, public speaker, film director, and author is a hard man to pin a label on -- and an even more difficult man to fool.In Black Lies, White L...

Black Boss: Political Revolution in a Georgia County - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby John Rozier (Author)John McCown was a black civil rights worker who achieved great political power and whose career, and life, ended in a swirl of controversy. In 1968, Georgia's Hancock County became the first county in the United States since Reconstruction to come under black political control, in large part because of the charismatic leadership of McCown, who secured millions in grants from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Ford Foundation, and the Ea...

David Einhorn, Memorial Volume: Selected Sermons And Addresses (1911)

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Report copyright infringementby Kaufmann Kohler (Editor), Emil G. Hirsch (Illustrator)David Einhorn, Memorial Volume: Selected Sermons And Addresses (1911) is a book that contains a collection of sermons and speeches given by David Einhorn, a prominent rabbi and leader in the Jewish community during the 19th century. The book serves as a tribute to Einhorn, who passed away in 1879, and includes writings from various authors who knew him personally. The selected sermons and addresses cover a w...

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Report copyright infringementby Sally Cole (Author)Ruth Landes (1908-91) is now recognized as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations. Ahead of her time in many respects, Landes worked with issues that defined the central debates in the discipline at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In Ruth Landes, Sally Cole reconsiders Landes's life, work, and career, and places her at the heart of anthropology. The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Landes studied under the renowned an...

Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism

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Report copyright infringementby Maurice Jackson (Author)Anthony Benezet (1713-84), universally recognized by the leaders of the eighteenth-century antislavery movement as its founder, was born to a Huguenot family in Saint-Quentin, France. As a boy, Benezet moved to Holland, England, and, in 1731, Philadelphia, where he rose to prominence in the Quaker antislavery community. In transforming Quaker antislavery sentiment into a broad-based transatlantic movement, Benezet translated ideas from d...

Real Role Models: Successful African Americans Beyond Pop Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Joah Spearman (Author)All young people need good role models, and black youth especially need positive and real examples beyond the famous and wealthy people they see on SportsCenter highlights and MTV Cribs. While success as a celebrity athlete or entertainer may seem like an achievable dream, the reality is that young African Americans have a much greater chance of succeeding in the professions through education and hard work-and a mentor to show them the pat...

Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra Beasley (Author)A beautifully written and darkly funny journey through the world of the allergic. Like twelve million other Americans, Sandra Beasley suffers from food allergies. Her allergies--severe and lifelong--include dairy, egg, soy, beef, shrimp, pine nuts, cucumbers, cantaloupe, honeydew, mango, macadamias, pistachios, cashews, swordfish, and mustard. Add to that mold, dust, grass and tree pollen, cigarette smoke, dogs, rabbits, horses, and wool,...

The Souls of Black Folk (an African American Heritage Book)

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Report copyright infringementby W. E. B. Du Bois (Author)William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist leader Pan-Africanist sociologist educator historian writer editor poet and scholar. The importance of his work to the success of the Civil Rights movement cannot be overestimated. "In the course of his long turbulent career W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism-scholarship propaganda integrati...

Hashomer Hatzair, Israel and Our Jewish Heritage

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Report copyright infringementby Schatzberg (Editor), Andi Fischhoff (Editor)In this new collection of memories, tributes, photos and paintings, former members of the socialist-Zionist youth movement, Hashomer Hatzair, reflect on how participation in this organization influenced the trajectory of their lives and their values as adults. Whether new immigrants to North America, second or third generation, these youngsters found a home in Hashomer and many have kept in touch since they were teens...

An Anthology of Rocks and Minerals: A Collection of Rocks, Minerals, and Gems from Around the World - Hardcover

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by Devin Dennie (Author)A beautiful field guide featuring notes, photos, and illustrations of more than 100 rocks, minerals, and gems A compact version of DK's bestselling anthology series, An Anthology of Rocks and Minerals is perfect for young geologists aged 7-9 for taking on the go. Children can marvel at many different minerals that no collection would be complete without, including quartz, pyrite, amethyst, lapis lazuli, and much more, as well as rock types that children will love spot...

They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us - Paperback

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by Prachi Gupta (Author)"In this vulnerable and courageous memoir, Prachi Gupta takes the myth of the exceptional Indian American family to task."--The Washington Post "I read it in one sitting. Wow. It aims right at the tender spot where racism, sexism, and family dynamics collide, and somehow manages to be both searingly honest and deeply compassionate."--Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere A SHE READS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF ...

Lupe Velez: The Life and Career of Hollywood's

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Vogel (Author) Here is the first extensive, full-length biography and career record on the life and work of Mexican whirlwind Lupe Velez (1908-1944). Over the years many crude myths have surfaced about Velez, the most notorious that she "died with her head in the toilet." This biography not only studies Lupe's personal life and career--including her tempestuous marriage to Johnny Weissmuller--but also examines her death in detail. It has been almost se...

Iroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers

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Report copyright infringementby William N. Fenton (Author), Jack Campisi (Editor), William A. Starna (Editor)Iroquois Journey is the warm and illuminating memoir of William N. Fenton (1908-2005), a leading scholar who shaped Iroquois studies and modern anthropology in America. The memoir reveals the ambitions and struggles of the man and the many accomplishments of the anthropologist, the complex and sometimes volatile milieu of Native-white relations in upstate New York in the twentieth cent...

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women - Paperback

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by Kate Moore (Author)A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller!For fans of Hidden Figures, comes the incredible true story of the women heroes who were exposed to radium in factories across the U.S. in the early 20th century, and their brave and groundbreaking battle to strengthen workers' rights, even as the fatal poison claimed their own lives...In the dark years of the First World War, radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face...

The Negro in the South: His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development Being the William Levi Bull Lectures for the Year 190

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Report copyright infringementby W. E. Burghardt DuBois (Editor), Booker T. Washington (Author)WE are now, I think, far enough removed from the period of slavery to be able to study the influence of that institution objectively rather than subjectively. Surely if any Negro who was a part of the institution itself can do so, the remaining portion of the American people ought to be able to do so, whether they live at the North or at the South. My subject naturally leads me to a discussion of the...

The Whiteness of Akkkademia and the Making of a Slave

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Report copyright infringementby Angeline Dean (Author)"Secrets lose their power once they are exposed!" That is what Dr. Angeline Dean firmly believes. Akkkademia tried to stop her from tellingher story, but she prevailed, and this is part one of her story. "We have been keeping everythingin the house and in our housed bodies for far too long and it is killing us, literally. It ispast time to pull the band-aid off and get healed. In fact, let's not only talk about it but alsodissect it" she a...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Winterhalder (Author), Wil de Clercq (Author)In Biker Chicz of North America, Edward Winterhalder and Wil De Clercq have compiled in-depth profiles of twenty-two fascinating women who ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Each chapter features an individual whose life story is compelling, intriguing, fascinating, and inspirational.Global studies indicate that 12 to 18 percent of motorcycling enthusiasts are women. The number of women motorcycle riders in Nor...

Pagan Kennedy's Living: A Handbook for Maturing Hipsters

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Report copyright infringementby Pagan Kennedy (Author)Pagan Kennedy first captured the hearts of America with her personal zine Pagan's Head. Drawing from this source, she presents not only the zine-world standards, but also includes some helpful dating tips, such as "Pretend to go to the bathroom and never come back." Cruise through this book only if you want an extremely entertaining read and the opportunity to develop an unhealthy fixation on the fabulous Ms. Kennedy. Originally published ...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Hunter (Author)Brainwashing: The Story Of Men Who Defied It is a non-fiction book written by Edward Hunter. The book explores the concept of brainwashing, a psychological technique used to manipulate and control individuals. Hunter provides a historical perspective on brainwashing, tracing its origins to Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War. The book also examines the experiences of American soldiers who were subjected to brainwashing ...

Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It

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Report copyright infringementby Herb Boyd (Author)Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compelling historical portrait: Benjamin Banneker on Thomas JeffersonOld Elizabeth on spreading the Word Frederick Douglass on life in the North W...

FINDING HOPE... From Urban Streets to the Desert

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Report copyright infringementby Jackie S. Ross (Author)At only 17, Jackie knew what her life's purpose was. Over the next five decades, she'd work tooth and nail both domestically and abroad to fight for justice, human rights, and a glimmer of hope for each soul in need.As a teen about to graduate from high school, Jackie visited the Kilbarchan orphanage with her friend. She met Jewish twins whose parents had perished in a car accident six months before, and her life's work began to unfold be...

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Report copyright infringementby Robin M. Wright (Author), Michael J. Harner (Foreword by)Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with da Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of da Silva's life together with the Baniwas' society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar...

Renegade Agency: A Memoir of a Family in Crisis and the Systems Meant to Protect Us

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea M. Verbanic (Author)Andrea Verbanic began December 2, 2013, finger-painting and practicing yoga with three toddlers. By 9:00 p.m. that evening, she was the main target of a felony child abuse investigation that upended her life. The ordeal that unfolded over the next six years is equal parts social commentary, whodunnit mystery, and drama-filled soap opera that will challenge what you think you know about the systems we trust to protect us.Andrea's world...

Our Muslim Neighbors: Achieving the American Dream, An Immigrant's Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Victor Begg (Author), Rabbi and Cantor Bruce Benson (Foreword by), Daniel L. Buttry (Preface by)The American Dream is alive and well in this memoir of a Muslim immigrant from India who arrived planning to start a business, working so hard toward his personal goals that he even pumped gas and sold vacuum cleaners door to door. Victor Begg successfully built a thriving, regional chain of furniture stores. Along the way, he discovered that America's greatest promi...

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Report copyright infringementby Morgan Brierley (Author), Helen Brierley (Author)Morgan Brierley, A Memoir is a book written by Morgan Brierley himself in the year 1900. The book is a personal account of his life and experiences, chronicling his journey from childhood to adulthood. Brierley was a British writer and journalist who was known for his contributions to the literary world. In this memoir, Brierley shares his thoughts and reflections on various aspects of his life, including his fam...