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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Vance, J D

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks

Date Published: 05-2018

ISBN: 0062300555 | EAN: 9780062300553

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Bibliography, Price on Product | Pages: 288

Annotation: "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers."--Title page verso.

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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Brooks, David

Publisher: Random House

Date Published: 10-2023

ISBN: 059323006X | EAN: 9780593230060

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 320

Annotation: "A how-to in becoming more understanding and considerate of others, and to find joy that comes from being seen."--

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Wilkerson, Isabel

Publisher: Random House Trade

Date Published: 02-2023

ISBN: 0593230272 | EAN: 9780593230275

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Price on Product, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 544

Annotation: "In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings."--

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In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Junger, Sebastian

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Date Published: 05-2024

ISBN: 1668050838 | EAN: 9781668050835

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product, Bibliography | Pages: 176

Annotation: "For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. 'It's okay, ' his father said. 'There's nothing to be scared of. I'll take care of you.' That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived. This experience spurred Junger--a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical--to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die"--

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Poverty, by America

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Desmond, Matthew

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Date Published: 03-2024

ISBN: 0593239938 | EAN: 9780593239933

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Price on Product, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 320

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Vance, J D

Publisher: Harper

Date Published: 06-2016

ISBN: 0062300547 | EAN: 9780062300546

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product, Bibliography | Pages: 272

Annotation: Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author--a Yale Law School graduate--while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Shrier, Abigail

Publisher: Sentinel

Date Published: 02-2024

ISBN: 0593542924 | EAN: 9780593542927

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Bibliography, Price on Product | Pages: 320

Annotation: "In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost, sad, and fearful of growing up. What's gone wrong with America's youth? In Bad Therapy, ... Shrier argues that the problem isn't the kids--it's the mental health experts. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with child psychologists, parents, teachers, and young people, Shrier explores the ways the mental health industry has transformed the way we teach, treat, discipline, and even talk to our kids"--

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Fire Next Time

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Baldwin, James

Publisher: Vintage

Date Published: 12-1992

ISBN: 067974472X | EAN: 9780679744726

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Ikids, Price on Product | Pages: 128

Audience Age Range: 14 to 14

Reading Grade Level: 09 to 09

Annotation: At once a powerful evocation of his childhood in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the Civil Rights movement, stands as one of the essential works of our literature. (Vintage)February

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Message

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Publisher: One World

Date Published: 10-2024

ISBN: 0593230388 | EAN: 9780593230381

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Illustrated | Pages: 256

Annotation: "Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic 'Politics and the English Language,' but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories--our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking--expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book's three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book's banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation's recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city--a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book's longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground"

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Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

BasicBinding: Mass Market Paperbound

Author: Hamilton, Edith

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Date Published: 01-2011

ISBN: 0446574759 | EAN: 9780446574754

BasicBinding: Mass Market Paperbound

Features: Price on Product, Ikids, Index, Illustrated, Table of Contents, Price on Product - Canadian | Pages: 512

Annotation: Hamilton's world-renowned and classic bestseller of gods and heroes has enthralled generations of readers, and is now available in a tall Premium Edition. Reissue.

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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Estés, Clarissa Pinkola

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Date Published: 08-1995

ISBN: 0345396812 | EAN: 9780345396815

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Index, Table of Contents, Price on Product | Pages: 560

Annotation: "Updated, with new material by the author"--P. [4] of cover.

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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths about Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation

Date Published: 06-2024

ISBN: 1324094877 | EAN: 9781324094876

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product | Pages: 288

Annotation:

A generational work with far-ranging social and political implications, White Poverty, promises to be one of the most influential books in recent years.

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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Tishby, Noa

Publisher: S&s/Simon Element

Date Published: 04-2024

ISBN: 1668057859 | EAN: 9781668057858

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product, Bibliography | Pages: 320

Annotation: For Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby no question about Jews is off-limits. They go there. They cover Jews and money. Jews and power. Jews and privilege. Jews and white privilege. The Black and Jewish struggle. Emmanuel asks, Did Jews kill Jesus? To which Noa responds, "Why are Jewish people history's favorite scapegoat?" They unpack Judaism itself: Is it a religion, culture, a peoplehood, or a race? And: Are you antisemitic if you're anti-Zionist? The questions, and answers, might make you squirm, but together, they explain the tropes, stereotypes, and catalysts of antisemitism in America today. The topics are complicated and Acho and Tishby bring vastly different perspectives. Tishby is an outspoken Israeli American. Acho is a mild-mannered son of a Nigerian American pastor. But they share a superpower: an uncanny ability to make complicated ideas easy to understand so anyone can follow the straight line from the past to our immediate moment, and then see around corners. Acho and Tishby are united by the core belief that hatred toward one group is never isolated: if you see the smoke of bigotry in one place, expect that we will all be in the fire.

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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Twilley, Nicola

Publisher: Penguin Press

Date Published: 06-2024

ISBN: 0735223289 | EAN: 9780735223288

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Illustrated, Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 400

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Poverty, by America

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Desmond, Matthew

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Date Published: 03-2023

ISBN: 0593239911 | EAN: 9780593239919

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 304

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New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Alexander, Michelle

Publisher: New Press

Date Published: 01-2020

ISBN: 1620971933 | EAN: 9781620971932

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 352

Annotation: First published: 2010; Previous edition: 2012..

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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

BasicBinding: Paperback

Publisher: West Virginia University Press

Date Published: 02-2019

ISBN: 1946684791 | EAN: 9781946684790

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 432

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Desmond, Matthew

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Date Published: 02-2017

ISBN: 0553447459 | EAN: 9780553447453

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 448

Annotation: "Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers ... [In this book], Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America's vast inequality--and to people's determination and intelligence in the face of hardship"--Dust jacket flap.

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Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Kidder, Tracy

Publisher: Random House Trade

Date Published: 01-2024

ISBN: 1984801457 | EAN: 9781984801456

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Price on Product, Bibliography | Pages: 320

Annotation: Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2023.

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Wilkerson, Isabel

Publisher: Random House

Date Published: 08-2020

ISBN: 0593230256 | EAN: 9780593230251

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 544

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