Buck
A Memoir
Written by MK Asante
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $25.00
A rebellious boy’s journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family—this is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice. MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: a mother who led the new nation’s dance company and...
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With Charity for All
Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give
Written by Ken Stern
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $26.95
Vast and largely unexamined, the world of American charities accounts for fully 10 percent of economic activity in this country, yet operates with little accountability, no real barriers to entry, and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness. In With Charity for All, Ken Stern reveals a problem hidden in plain sight...
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Kindred
Written by Octavia Butler
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 1, 2004
Price: $15.00
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn...
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The Idealist
Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Written by Nina Munk
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Price: $26.95
A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty "The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential bestseller
The End of Poverty—disagrees. In his view...
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Full Body Burden
Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Written by Kristen Iversen
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Full Body Burden is Kristen Iversen's story of growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets—both family secrets and government secrets. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the...
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The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: Trade Paperback, 1344 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1975
Price: $25.00
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes,
The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost...
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