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      <title>The Divide by Matt Taibbi</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812993424&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780812993424&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812993424&quot;&gt;The Divide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=69330&quot;&gt;Matt Taibbi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 288 pages | Spiegel &amp; Grau | Political Science - Government - National; Social Science - Poverty; Business &amp; Economics | &lt;b&gt;$27.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-8129-9342-4 (0-8129-9342-X)&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <title>The Divide by Matt Taibbi</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679645467&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780679645467&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679645467&quot;&gt;The Divide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=69330&quot;&gt;Matt Taibbi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 288 pages | Spiegel &amp; Grau | Political Science - Government - National; Social Science - Poverty; Business &amp; Economics | &lt;b&gt;$&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-679-64546-7 (0-679-64546-2)&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <title>The Divide by Matt Taibbi</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804128056&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780804128056&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804128056&quot;&gt;The Divide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=69330&quot;&gt;Matt Taibbi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Audiobook Download&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Political Science - Government - National; Social Science - Poverty; Business &amp; Economics | &lt;b&gt;$24.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-8041-2805-6 (0-8041-2805-7)&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <title>Fire in the Ashes by Jonathan Kozol</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400052479&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781400052479&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400052479&quot;&gt;Fire in the Ashes&lt;/a&gt; Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=16200&quot;&gt;Jonathan Kozol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 368 pages | Broadway | Social Science - Sociology - Urban; Social Science - Children's Studies; Social Science - Poverty | &lt;b&gt;$16.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-4000-5247-9 (1-4000-5247-5)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books &lt;i&gt;Rachel and Her Children&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Amazing Grace&lt;/i&gt;, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. A winner of the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and countless other honors, he has persistently crossed the lines of class and race, first as a teacher, then as the author of tender and heart-breaking books about the children he has called &amp;ldquo;the outcasts of our nation&amp;rsquo;s ingenuity.&amp;rdquo; But Jonathan is not a distant and detached reporter. His own life has been radically transformed by the children who have trusted and befriended him.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Never has this intimate acquaintance with his subjects been more apparent, or more stirring, than in &lt;i&gt;Fire in the Ashes&lt;/i&gt;, as Jonathan tells the stories of young men and women who have come of age in one of the most destitute communities of the United States. Some of them never do recover from the battering they undergo in their early years, but many more battle back with fierce and, often, jubilant determination to overcome the formidable obstacles they face. As we watch these glorious children grow into the fullness of a healthy and contributive maturity, they ignite a flame of hope, not only for themselves, but for our society.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The urgent issues that confront our urban schools &amp;ndash; a devastating race-gap, a pathological regime of obsessive testing and drilling students for exams instead of giving them the rich curriculum that excites a love of learning &amp;ndash; are interwoven through these stories. Why certain children rise above it all, graduate from high school and do well in college, while others are defeated by the time they enter adolescence, lies at the essence of this work.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Jonathan Kozol is the author of &lt;i&gt;Death at an Early Age&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Savage Inequalities&lt;/i&gt;, and other books on children and their education. He has been called &amp;ldquo;today&amp;rsquo;s most eloquent spokesman for America&amp;rsquo;s disenfranchised.&amp;rdquo; But he believes young people speak most eloquently for themselves; and in this book, so full of the vitality and spontaneity of youth, we hear their testimony.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <title>The Corner by Edward Burns</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307833464&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307833464&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307833464&quot;&gt;The Corner&lt;/a&gt; A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=28457&quot;&gt;David Simon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=44295&quot;&gt;Edward Burns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 576 pages | Broadway | Social Science - Poverty | &lt;b&gt;$12.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-83346-4 (0-307-83346-1)&lt;p&gt;The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Through the eyes of one broken family--two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough, Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. This extraordinary book is a crucial look at the price of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-03-13T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Fire in the Ashes by Jonathan Kozol</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400052462&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781400052462&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400052462&quot;&gt;Fire in the Ashes&lt;/a&gt; Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=16200&quot;&gt;Jonathan Kozol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 368 pages | Crown | Social Science - Sociology - Urban; Social Science - Children's Studies; Social Science - Poverty | &lt;b&gt;$27.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-4000-5246-2 (1-4000-5246-7)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books &lt;i&gt;Rachel and Her Children&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Amazing Grace&lt;/i&gt;, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. A winner of the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and countless other honors, he has persistently crossed the lines of class and race, first as a teacher, then as the author of tender and heart-breaking books about the children he has called &amp;ldquo;the outcasts of our nation&amp;rsquo;s ingenuity.&amp;rdquo; But Jonathan is not a distant and detached reporter. His own life has been radically transformed by the children who have trusted and befriended him.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Never has this intimate acquaintance with his subjects been more apparent, or more stirring, than in &lt;i&gt;Fire in the Ashes&lt;/i&gt;, as Jonathan tells the stories of young men and women who have come of age in one of the most destitute communities of the United States. Some of them never do recover from the battering they undergo in their early years, but many more battle back with fierce and, often, jubilant determination to overcome the formidable obstacles they face. As we watch these glorious children grow into the fullness of a healthy and contributive maturity, they ignite a flame of hope, not only for themselves, but for our society.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The urgent issues that confront our urban schools &amp;ndash; a devastating race-gap, a pathological regime of obsessive testing and drilling students for exams instead of giving them the rich curriculum that excites a love of learning &amp;ndash; are interwoven through these stories. Why certain children rise above it all, graduate from high school and do well in college, while others are defeated by the time they enter adolescence, lies at the essence of this work.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Jonathan Kozol is the author of &lt;i&gt;Death at an Early Age&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Savage Inequalities&lt;/i&gt;, and other books on children and their education. He has been called &amp;ldquo;today&amp;rsquo;s most eloquent spokesman for America&amp;rsquo;s disenfranchised.&amp;rdquo; But he believes young people speak most eloquently for themselves; and in this book, so full of the vitality and spontaneity of youth, we hear their testimony.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-08-28T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Fire in the Ashes by Jonathan Kozol</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770435950&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780770435950&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770435950&quot;&gt;Fire in the Ashes&lt;/a&gt; Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=16200&quot;&gt;Jonathan Kozol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 368 pages | Crown | Social Science - Sociology - Urban; Social Science - Children's Studies; Social Science - Poverty | &lt;b&gt;$13.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-7704-3595-0 (0-7704-3595-5)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books &lt;i&gt;Rachel and Her Children&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Amazing Grace&lt;/i&gt;, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. A winner of the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and countless other honors, he has persistently crossed the lines of class and race, first as a teacher, then as the author of tender and heart-breaking books about the children he has called &amp;ldquo;the outcasts of our nation&amp;rsquo;s ingenuity.&amp;rdquo; But Jonathan is not a distant and detached reporter. His own life has been radically transformed by the children who have trusted and befriended him.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Never has this intimate acquaintance with his subjects been more apparent, or more stirring, than in &lt;i&gt;Fire in the Ashes&lt;/i&gt;, as Jonathan tells the stories of young men and women who have come of age in one of the most destitute communities of the United States. Some of them never do recover from the battering they undergo in their early years, but many more battle back with fierce and, often, jubilant determination to overcome the formidable obstacles they face. As we watch these glorious children grow into the fullness of a healthy and contributive maturity, they ignite a flame of hope, not only for themselves, but for our society.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The urgent issues that confront our urban schools &amp;ndash; a devastating race-gap, a pathological regime of obsessive testing and drilling students for exams instead of giving them the rich curriculum that excites a love of learning &amp;ndash; are interwoven through these stories. Why certain children rise above it all, graduate from high school and do well in college, while others are defeated by the time they enter adolescence, lies at the essence of this work.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Jonathan Kozol is the author of &lt;i&gt;Death at an Early Age&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Savage Inequalities&lt;/i&gt;, and other books on children and their education. He has been called &amp;ldquo;today&amp;rsquo;s most eloquent spokesman for America&amp;rsquo;s disenfranchised.&amp;rdquo; But he believes young people speak most eloquently for themselves; and in this book, so full of the vitality and spontaneity of youth, we hear their testimony.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-08-28T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Fire in the Ashes by Keythe Farley</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449012598&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780449012598&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449012598&quot;&gt;Fire in the Ashes&lt;/a&gt; Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=16200&quot;&gt;Jonathan Kozol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=167527&quot;&gt;Keythe Farley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Compact Disc&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Social Science - Sociology - Urban; Social Science - Children's Studies; Social Science - Poverty | &lt;b&gt;$40.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-449-01259-8 (0-449-01259-X)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books &lt;i&gt;Rachel and Her Children&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Amazing Grace&lt;/i&gt;, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. A winner of the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and countless other honors, he has persistently crossed the lines of class and race, first as a teacher, then as the author of tender and heart-breaking books about the children he has called &amp;ldquo;the outcasts of our nation&amp;rsquo;s ingenuity.&amp;rdquo; But Jonathan is not a distant and detached reporter. His own life has been radically transformed by the children who have trusted and befriended him.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Never has this intimate acquaintance with his subjects been more apparent, or more stirring, than in &lt;i&gt;Fire in the Ashes&lt;/i&gt;, as Jonathan tells the stories of young men and women who have come of age in one of the most destitute communities of the United States. Some of them never do recover from the battering they undergo in their early years, but many more battle back with fierce and, often, jubilant determination to overcome the formidable obstacles they face. As we watch these glorious children grow into the fullness of a healthy and contributive maturity, they ignite a flame of hope, not only for themselves, but for our society.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The urgent issues that confront our urban schools &amp;ndash; a devastating race-gap, a pathological regime of obsessive testing and drilling students for exams instead of giving them the rich curriculum that excites a love of learning &amp;ndash; are interwoven through these stories. Why certain children rise above it all, graduate from high school and do well in college, while others are defeated by the time they enter adolescence, lies at the essence of this work.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Jonathan Kozol is the author of &lt;i&gt;Death at an Early Age&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Savage Inequalities&lt;/i&gt;, and other books on children and their education. He has been called &amp;ldquo;today&amp;rsquo;s most eloquent spokesman for America&amp;rsquo;s disenfranchised.&amp;rdquo; But he believes young people speak most eloquently for themselves; and in this book, so full of the vitality and spontaneity of youth, we hear their testimony.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-08-28T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Fire in the Ashes by Keythe Farley</title>
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      </author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449012604&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780449012604&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449012604&quot;&gt;Fire in the Ashes&lt;/a&gt; Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=16200&quot;&gt;Jonathan Kozol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=167527&quot;&gt;Keythe Farley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Audiobook Download&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Social Science - Sociology - Urban; Social Science - Children's Studies; Social Science - Poverty | &lt;b&gt;$22.50&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-449-01260-4 (0-449-01260-3)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books &lt;i&gt;Rachel and Her Children&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Amazing Grace&lt;/i&gt;, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. A winner of the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and countless other honors, he has persistently crossed the lines of class and race, first as a teacher, then as the author of tender and heart-breaking books about the children he has called &amp;ldquo;the outcasts of our nation&amp;rsquo;s ingenuity.&amp;rdquo; But Jonathan is not a distant and detached reporter. His own life has been radically transformed by the children who have trusted and befriended him.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Never has this intimate acquaintance with his subjects been more apparent, or more stirring, than in &lt;i&gt;Fire in the Ashes&lt;/i&gt;, as Jonathan tells the stories of young men and women who have come of age in one of the most destitute communities of the United States. Some of them never do recover from the battering they undergo in their early years, but many more battle back with fierce and, often, jubilant determination to overcome the formidable obstacles they face. As we watch these glorious children grow into the fullness of a healthy and contributive maturity, they ignite a flame of hope, not only for themselves, but for our society.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The urgent issues that confront our urban schools &amp;ndash; a devastating race-gap, a pathological regime of obsessive testing and drilling students for exams instead of giving them the rich curriculum that excites a love of learning &amp;ndash; are interwoven through these stories. Why certain children rise above it all, graduate from high school and do well in college, while others are defeated by the time they enter adolescence, lies at the essence of this work.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Jonathan Kozol is the author of &lt;i&gt;Death at an Early Age&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Savage Inequalities&lt;/i&gt;, and other books on children and their education. He has been called &amp;ldquo;today&amp;rsquo;s most eloquent spokesman for America&amp;rsquo;s disenfranchised.&amp;rdquo; But he believes young people speak most eloquently for themselves; and in this book, so full of the vitality and spontaneity of youth, we hear their testimony.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-08-28T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey D. Sachs</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812980462" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812980462&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780812980462&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812980462&quot;&gt;The Price of Civilization&lt;/a&gt; Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=153326&quot;&gt;Jeffrey D. Sachs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 352 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Business &amp; Economics - Economic Conditions; History - United States - 21St Century; Social Science - Poverty | &lt;b&gt;$18.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-8129-8046-2 (0-8129-8046-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES&lt;/i&gt; BESTSELLER &amp;bull; NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY &lt;i&gt;THE GUARDIAN &lt;/i&gt;AND&lt;i&gt; PUBLISHERS WEEKLY&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Succinct, humane, and politically astute . . . Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform, regulation, and recovery.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The American Prospect&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; In this forceful and impassioned book, Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country&amp;rsquo;s economic ills, and an urgent call for Americans to restore the core virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity. Sachs finds that both political parties&amp;mdash;and many leading economists&amp;mdash;have missed the big picture, profoundly underestimating globalization&amp;rsquo;s long-term effects and offering shortsighted solutions. He describes a political system that is beholden to big donors and influential lobbyists and a consumption-driven culture that suffers shortfalls of social trust and compassion. He bids readers to reclaim the virtues of good citizenship and mindfulness toward the economy and each one another. Most important, he urges each of us to accept the price of civilization, so that together we restore America to its great promise. &lt;i&gt;The Price of Civilization&lt;/i&gt; is a masterly road map for prosperity, founded on America&amp;rsquo;s deepest values and on a rigorous understanding of the twenty-first-century world economy.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;With a new Preface by the author&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Half a century ago J. K. Galbraith&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;The Affluent Society&lt;/i&gt; changed the political consciousness of a generation. . . . Jeffrey Sachs&amp;rsquo;s new book is a landmark in this great and essentially American tradition. . . . Sachs by his life and his writing goes far to restore one&amp;rsquo;s wavering faith in the informing inspiration of the post-1945 new dawn, faith in economics, faith in America and faith in humanity.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Spectator&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Stimulating . . . a must-read for every concerned citizen . . . [a] hard-hitting brief for a humane economy.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Publishers Weekly &lt;/i&gt;(starred review)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Sachs&amp;rsquo;s book is loaded with information and anecdotes [and] proposals that would make it harder for the powerful to rig the system for their benefit.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Scientific American&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;An eloquent call for American civic renewal based on moderation, compassion, and cooperation across the lines of class, ethnicity, and ideology.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;CNN Money&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Compelling . . . This is an important book.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Financial Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-08-21T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770435660&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780770435660&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770435660&quot;&gt;Amazing Grace&lt;/a&gt; The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=16200&quot;&gt;Jonathan Kozol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 336 pages | Broadway | Social Science - Sociology - Urban; Social Science - Poverty | &lt;b&gt;$15.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-7704-3566-0 (0-7704-3566-1)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Amazing Grace &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;is Jonathan Kozol&amp;rsquo;s classic book on life and death in the South Bronx&amp;mdash;the poorest urban neighborhood of the United States. He brings us into overcrowded schools, dysfunctional hospitals, and rat-infested homes where families have been ravaged by depression and anxiety, drug-related violence, and the spread of AIDS. But he also introduces us to devoted and unselfish teachers, dedicated ministers, and&amp;mdash;at the heart and center of the book&amp;mdash;courageous and delightful children. The children we come to meet through the friendships they have formed with Jonathan defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. Amidst all of the despair, it is the very young whose luminous capacity for love and transcendent sense of faith in human decency give reason for hope. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-06-26T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770436650" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770436650&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780770436650&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770436650&quot;&gt;Amazing Grace&lt;/a&gt; The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=16200&quot;&gt;Jonathan Kozol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 336 pages | Broadway | Social Science - Sociology - Urban; Social Science - Poverty | &lt;b&gt;$11.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-7704-3665-0 (0-7704-3665-X)&lt;p&gt;The author of &lt;b&gt;Savage Inequalities,&lt;/b&gt; a &lt;b&gt;New York Times&lt;/b&gt; best-seller, and &lt;b&gt;Rachel and Her Children,&lt;/b&gt; winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-06-26T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679643951" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679643951&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780679643951&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679643951&quot;&gt;Behind the Beautiful Forevers&lt;/a&gt; Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=83386&quot;&gt;Katherine Boo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 288 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Social Science - Poverty; History - India; Social Science - Third World Development | &lt;b&gt;$13.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-679-64395-1 (0-679-64395-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER &amp;bull; NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;The New York Times &amp;bull; The Washington Post &amp;bull; O: The Oprah Magazine &amp;bull; USA Today &amp;bull; New York &amp;bull; The Miami Herald &amp;bull; San Francisco Chronicle &amp;bull; Newsday&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;The New Yorker &amp;bull; People &amp;bull; Entertainment Weekly &amp;bull; The Wall Street Journal &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The Boston Globe &amp;bull; The Economist &amp;bull; Financial Times &amp;bull; Newsweek&lt;/i&gt;/The Daily Beast&lt;i&gt; &amp;bull; Foreign Policy &amp;bull; The Seattle Times &amp;bull; The Nation &amp;bull; St. Louis Post-Dispatch &amp;bull; The Denver Post &amp;bull; &lt;/i&gt;Minneapolis&lt;i&gt; Star Tribune &amp;bull; &lt;/i&gt;Salon&lt;i&gt; &amp;bull; The Plain Dealer &amp;bull; The Week &amp;bull; Kansas City Star &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;Slate&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Time Out New York &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Publishers Weekly&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century&amp;rsquo;s great, unequal cities.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees &amp;ldquo;a fortune beyond counting&amp;rdquo; in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter&amp;mdash;Annawadi&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;most-everything girl&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call &amp;ldquo;the full enjoy.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths,&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, &lt;i&gt;Behind the Beautiful Forevers &lt;/i&gt;carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century&amp;rsquo;s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-02-07T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Sunil Malhotra</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307934055" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307934055&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307934055&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307934055&quot;&gt;Behind the Beautiful Forevers&lt;/a&gt; Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=83386&quot;&gt;Katherine Boo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=99346&quot;&gt;Sunil Malhotra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Compact Disc&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Social Science - Poverty; History - India; Social Science - Third World Development | &lt;b&gt;$35.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-93405-5 (0-307-93405-5)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER &amp;bull; NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;The New York Times &amp;bull; The Washington Post &amp;bull; O: The Oprah Magazine &amp;bull; USA Today &amp;bull; New York &amp;bull; The Miami Herald &amp;bull; San Francisco Chronicle &amp;bull; Newsday&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;The New Yorker &amp;bull; People &amp;bull; Entertainment Weekly &amp;bull; The Wall Street Journal &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The Boston Globe &amp;bull; The Economist &amp;bull; Financial Times &amp;bull; Newsweek&lt;/i&gt;/The Daily Beast&lt;i&gt; &amp;bull; Foreign Policy &amp;bull; The Seattle Times &amp;bull; The Nation &amp;bull; St. Louis Post-Dispatch &amp;bull; The Denver Post &amp;bull; &lt;/i&gt;Minneapolis&lt;i&gt; Star Tribune &amp;bull; &lt;/i&gt;Salon&lt;i&gt; &amp;bull; The Plain Dealer &amp;bull; The Week &amp;bull; Kansas City Star &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;Slate&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Time Out New York &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Publishers Weekly&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century&amp;rsquo;s great, unequal cities.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees &amp;ldquo;a fortune beyond counting&amp;rdquo; in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter&amp;mdash;Annawadi&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;most-everything girl&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call &amp;ldquo;the full enjoy.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths,&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, &lt;i&gt;Behind the Beautiful Forevers &lt;/i&gt;carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century&amp;rsquo;s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-02-07T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Sunil Malhotra</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
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      <title>Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo</title>
      <author>
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      <title>The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey D. Sachs</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <updated>2011-10-04T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Price of Civilization by Richard McGonagle</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <updated>2011-10-04T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>The Price of Civilization by Richard McGonagle</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <updated>2011-10-04T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Ask Me Why I Hurt by Randy Christensen, M.D.</title>
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