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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- ASIN: 0307742482
- ISBN: 0307742482
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable BookNamed a best book of the year by Amazon, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR, Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub, and SlateFrom t... [Read More]
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
- ASIN: 081298496X
- ISBN: 9780812984965
- Brand: Spiegel Grau
- Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice “[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has i... [Read More]
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- UPC: 884832131572
- ASIN: 0143125478
- ISBN: 9780143125471
- Brand: Brown, Daniel James
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany and now the inspiration for the PBS documentary “The Boys of ‘36'.”For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimat... [Read More]
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- ASIN: 1400052181
- ISBN: 9781400052189
- Brand: Skloot, Rebecca
- Manufacturer: Broadway Books
Now an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, ... [Read More]
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Night (Night)
- ASIN: 0374500010
- ISBN: 9780374500016
- Brand: Wiesel, Elie/ Wiesel, Marion (TRN)
- Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
- UPC: 884623824973
- ASIN: 1476764662
- ISBN: 9781476764665
- Brand: Simon & Schuster
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Over 3 million copies sold. Over 800 positive reviews. Adapted from the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is the ultimate teenage success guide—now updated for the digital age.Imagine you had a roadmap—a step-by-step guide to help you get from where you are now, to where yo... [Read More]
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner)
- ASIN: 1568585985
- ISBN: 1568585985
- Brand: Unknown
- Manufacturer: Bold Type Books
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argu... [Read More]
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- ASIN: 0374531269
- ISBN: 9780374531263
- Brand: Sarah Crichton Books
- Manufacturer: Sarah Crichton Books
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one beco... [Read More]
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1776
- ASIN: 0743226720
- ISBN: 0743226720
- Brand: Simon & Schuster
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
- UPC: 884340159730
- ASIN: 0316322423
- ISBN: 0316322423
- Brand: Back Bay Books
- Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an ... [Read More]
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- ASIN: 0345514408
- ISBN: 0345514408
- Brand: Angelou, Maya
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to ... [Read More]
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Fever 1793
- ASIN: 0689848919
- ISBN: 9780689848919
- Brand: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" (The New York Times Book Review).During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and m... [Read More]
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
- ASIN: 0316327913
- ISBN: 0316327913
- Brand: Little Brown Books for Young Readers
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
The bestselling memoir by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school.Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan tr... [Read More]
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- ASIN: 076790818X
- ISBN: 076790818X
- Brand: Broadway Books
- Manufacturer: Broadway Books
One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Austr... [Read More]
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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
- ASIN: 0374303231
- ISBN: 0374303231
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Stonewall Book Award Winner―Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature AwardYALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both we... [Read More]
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- ASIN: 0385751532
- ISBN: 0385751532
- Brand: Ember
- Manufacturer: David Fickling Books
“Powerful and unsettling. . . . As memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.” —USA Today Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is... [Read More]
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The Complete Maus
- UPC: 000679406417
- ASIN: 0679406417
- ISBN: 0679406417
- Brand: PANTHPEON
- Manufacturer: Pantheon
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and ... [Read More]
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In the Time of the Butterflies
- ASIN: 1565129768
- ISBN: 1565129768
- Brand: Algonquin Books
- Manufacturer: Algonquin Books
25th Anniversary Edition "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” --St. Petersburg Times It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental.... [Read More]
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- UPC: 800759284993
- ASIN: 0486284999
- ISBN: 9780486284996
- Brand: Dover Publications
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a... [Read More]
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The Last Lecture
- ASIN: 1401323251
- ISBN: 9781401323257
- Brand: Hyperion Books
- Manufacturer: Hyperion
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