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Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic "new jacks" like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impass... Read more

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$4.64 - $18.96

Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 6

$4.64 - $10.80

Alex Ross - The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

A colorful history of modern music is set against the backdrop of the events, personalities, social institutions, and cultural movements of the twentieth century, chronicling the evolution of mass culture and mass politics, technological innovation, revolution, social experiments, and more in terms ... Read more

Stores Selling: 4

$14.00 - $20.00

Andrew X. Pham - The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars

Scenes of ethereal beauty alternate with violent upheavals in this atmospheric memoir. Andrew X. Pham tells the story of his father's life in small, dreamy sequences, skipping about through time masterfully. Once the scion of an old wealthy family, Thong Van Pham watched his fortune, his country, a... Read more

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$10.00 - $16.00

J. Anthony Lukas - Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

The racial turmoil of late 1960s and early '70s Boston is expertly conjured in J. Anthony Lukas's COMMON GROUND, which explores the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis in 1968. The book chronicles the attempts to bring the black and white communities together, both th... Read more

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$11.00 - $13.00

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more

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$36.00 - $42.00

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more

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$27.00 - $33.00

Paula J. Giddings - Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

Traces the life and legacy of the nineteenth-century activist and pioneer, documenting her birth into slavery and upbringing in the Victorian-era South, where she became a journalist and pioneer for civil rights and suffrage, in an account that also describes her determination to counter lynching ac... Read more

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$8.00 - $14.00

Rebecca Solnit - As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art

In this collection of 19 essays, Rebecca Solnit writes about calendars of nature photography, the tie between walking and physics, natural history museums, and more--most of them focusing on the issue that concerns her most: the politics of environmentalism ... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$12.00 - $28.00

Helene Cooper - The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood

A New York Times special correspondent presents a full-length memoir based on her acclaimed "African Odyssey" cover story for The Wall Street Journal, in a personal account that traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her ... Read more

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$10.00 - $36.00

Edwidge Danticat - Brother, I'm Dying

Acclaimed Haitian novelist Edwidge Danticat chronicles the courageous life and tragic end of her uncle, Joseph Dantica (the "t" was added as a result of an immigration error) who raised her until she was 12 before she emigrated to New York to be with her family. Firmly committed to his hom... Read more

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$9.00 - $20.00

Clifford Geertz - Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author

'America's most renowned cultural anthropologist...analyzes the literary forms of several anthropologist notables.'-Richard A. Scweder, The New York Times Book Review ... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$22.00 - $47.00

Nina Bernstein - The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care

Through a long study of several principles in a landmark court decision, a journalist exposes the gulag of New York's foster care system. The author examines the lost lives that were caught up in the system, and the large social issues such as race, ethnicity, poverty, and human rights. She examines... Read more

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$10.00 - $11.00

Shelby Steele - The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America

In this controversial collection of essays, award-winning writer Shelby Steele tackles the tough question "Why, after 25 years of legal change and ebbing prejudice, are blacks worse off today?" A critically acclaimed national bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.... Read more

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$4.75 - $11.10

Robert Polito - Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson

Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, ... Read more

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$13.00 - $20.00

Laurie Garrett - Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

In this meticulously researched and ultimately explosive new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes readers across the globe to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophes together form a terrifyi... Read more

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$6.00 - $19.00

Vivian Gornick - The Men in My Life

In this collection of literary essays, Vivian Gornick brilliantly interrogates her aesthetic involvement with such "great men" of literature as H.G. Wells, V.S. Naipaul, Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, and Phillip Roth. Neither a feminist screed not a summary indictment, THE MEN IN MY LIFE ca... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$10.00 - $11.00

Simon Schama - Rough Crossings

British historian Simon Schama provides a fresh historical perspective as he tells how and why many American slaves chose to fight on the British side during the American Revolution. Decrying the misinformation spread at the time by the American side, Schama explains the British views on slavery, in... Read more

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$19.00 - $19.00

Alex Ross - The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Library Edition

Alex Ross, the wonderfully erudite and insightful music critic for The New Yorker, traces the shifting currents of classical music from the 1906 premiere of Richard Strauss's SALOME to the end of the 20th century. Along the way, he provides vivid portraits of classical composers, brings to life pivo... Read more

Stores Selling: 1

$120.00 - $120.00

Alex Ross - The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

A colorful history of modern music is set against the backdrop of the events, personalities, social institutions, and cultural movements of the twentieth century, chronicling the evolution of mass culture and mass politics, technological innovation, revolution, social experiments, and more in terms ... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$22.00 - $26.00

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