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The inspiring story of Vice President Kamala Harris told in the new Who HQ Now format for trending topics. On November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris, a se...

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Reducere. In June of 1969, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York called The Stonewall was raided by police. This is historically agreed as the catalyst to...

DescriptionTURN HOME, RIDER In this land, the place you leave behind might not be there when you get back. At least not the way you knew it. Tack G...

Reducere. First-person account of the famous New York City Cedar Bar in the 1950s when it was regularly visited by what came to be known as the "greatest gen...

In aceste zece proze scurte, publicate in 1987, Ford extrage aur literar din tinuturile maturate de vant ale Vestului american, din singuratatea ch...

Reducere. "Michael Linsin is the Shakespeare of smart classroom management, and his 18 lessons can transform American public education." -Eva Moskowitz, Foun...

Music Theory is Fun Book 1, is the first in the newly revised five-book series by Maureen Cox that now also includes American musical terms. Using ...

Reducere. Emile Andre had already shown the beleaguered citizens of Paris how to defend themselves on the mean streets with his manual "100 Ways to Defend Yo...

One of the most popular satirical works of world literature, The Devil's Dictionary - here enriched with over 800 definitions left out from the ori...

Reducere. 'The god of small stories ... A set of polished gems from a master craftsman' Sunday Times'An American master' Daily TelegraphA woman and man, part...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first picture book in Chris Van Dusen's bestselling If I Built . . . series is now available in Spanish If I built a car, it'd be to...

Crime fans with a comparable appetite for Cormac McCarthy will want to absorb themselves in Michael Farris Smith's vision of the American South, wh...

Reducere. George Willard is a young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle to whom, one by one, the inhabitants of Winesburg, Ohio, confide their hopes, their dream...

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Reducere. Sweeping across African American history and culture in the shadow of slavery and ongoing racism, The Souls of Black Folk laid bare challenging iss...

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Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . .By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home.By the family reunion, that e...

With little skill, surprisingly few ingredients, and even the most unsophisticated of ice-cream makers, you can make the scrumptious ice creams tha...

Reducere. Macavity AwardJapanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much...

Eight years ago, Poke Rafferty, an American travel writer, and his Thai wife, Rose, adopted a Bangkok street child named Miaow, forming an unconven...

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SARA WHEELER'He was the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing' William Faulk...

A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the abiding racism an...

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Reducere. While the effects of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack may sound completely harmless or at least over-exaggerated, the truth is it would be dev...

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Reducere. Originally published by ""Popular Mechanics"" in 1941, this classic manual is a testament to the ingenuity and dedication of American craftsmen. Th...

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"Nazi Gold" is the real-life story of the theft of a fabulous treasurethe German national gold and foreign currency reserves, which disappeared in ...

Reducere. Best known for catching wolves alive with his bare hands, John R. Abernathy (1876-1941) was born to Scottish ancestors in Texas. Raised in the burg...

Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes dea...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNOW IN PAPERBACK WITH NEW REPORTING AND A NEW AFTERWORDThe seminal book on the child-separation policy. --Rachel Maddo...

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Ransom, Jay McInerney's second novel, belongs to the distinguished tradition of novels about exile. Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, ...

Reducere. Jonny is broken off, and doing time in an eastern Washington State Prison. He'll likely never see the outside world again. When Jonny is sent to th...

Reducere. Jayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by th...

Reducere. From a child slave put to hard labor to a college president and advisor to presidents, Booker T. Washington's autobiography powerfully describes hi...

A Notable Memoir by the New York TimesWith echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an ...

The new novel from two time Pulitzer Prize nominee Russell Banks. Famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, who fled to C...

Reducere. Sweeping across African American history and culture in the shadow of slavery and ongoing racism, The Souls of Black Folk laid bare challenging iss...

On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand s...

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In the continuation to the Mastered series by New York Times bestselling author Lorelei James, a man's need for control is tested by the one woman ...

The "best all-around book yet on fracking" (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: "Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporar...

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Across Europe, politicians and economists remain locked into micromanaging the welfare state established post-war, tweaking it here and tweaking it...

The pages of Healing is the Revolution invite readers into a discussion of the nameable and unnamable struggles African Americans face in a tense, ...

Reducere. A companion to On Writing and On Cats A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and mo...

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Reducere. The first novel by "master of mystery" (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in al...

Reducere. From "a striking new talent"(Sandra Dallas, author of Tallgrass) comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran head...

Reducere. Literary Americana with humor, heart, and a whole lot of twists to keep readers guessing Detective Early Pines loves his southern Arizona desert, o...

Reducere. There are shards of magic to be found on every page of this novel." --Omar El Akkad, author of American WarA struggling journalist named Seif is in...

Reducere. A Virginia Kelly Mystery, Book 1 - When businesswoman Virginia Kelly meets her old college chum Bev Johnson for drinks late one night, Bev confides...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: D. K. HoodThe floor was stone cold on her bare skin. Her heart pounded in her chest. 'Not a soul knows where I am, ' she th...

Reducere. From #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Brad Thor, comes the white-knuckled thriller The Apostle. A new administratio...

Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the history of the battle again...

The first work of fiction ever to hide a hippopotamus Saw is a milestone novel of the seventies. For the first time what has come to be recognized ...

New York Times Bestselling AuthorFinally returned to print in a beautiful trade paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fort...

" A] dark and funny satire . . . Infidelities, secret identities and double-crosses . . . Reflects the absurdity of any country obsessed with spyin...

In the wake of an affair, the lives of an astronaut and a radical are forever altered by the political fault lines of the 1960s, setting off a seri...