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Armed in America
"Armed in America" is a valuable and singular primer on the Second Amendment and its role in American law. Mass shootings return attention to the United States’ gun culture and the Second Amendment. "Armed in America" is a timely...
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Eye of the Moon
Set in 1977, the novel has a timeless, eerie feeling. Wealth, family politics, and the occult make for a strangely captivating and exotic brew in Ivan Obolensky’s "Eye of the Moon". Wealthy playboy Johnny Dodge invites his childhood...
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The Modoc War
McNally provides a brutally frank and damningly well-documented account of the war’s sordid background. The 1873 Modoc War pitted the small but fierce Modoc tribe against the United States government, which sought to expel them from...
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Onigamiising
Grover’s essays provide insight into Ojibwe life, even as it contends with the encroaching tendencies of surrounding cultures. This collection of short essays offers wisdom, humor, and affection from an Ojibwe grandmother who is also a...
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Survivor
Music fans will be fascinated by this very personal deep dive into the real life of the blues. For years, Benny Turner was the slim, understated bass player who stood in the background, calmly thumping out the steady, melodically...
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Beyond Snowden
This is an important book from a uniquely informed source on a critical and timely topic. "Beyond Snowden", written by Timothy H. Edgar, a civil liberties lawyer who had a ringside view of development of government surveillance programs,...
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Sin Bravely
"Sin Bravely" is a hilarious, thought-provoking, and thoroughly unconventional story of salvation. Maggie Rowe’s memoir of the summer she spent as a troubled teenager in a fundamentalist Christian psychiatric center is a rare creature...
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Che, My Brother
Juan Martin Guevara wants Che to be remembered as a human being, not as a myth. Fifty years after his death, Ernesto “Che” Guevara remains one of the most charismatic and controversial figures of the Cold War era. In this memoir, his...