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9781250754080 9781250209764
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Books
Books
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2020
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Flatiron Books,
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"Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy-two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia's husband's tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca ride la bestia-trains that make their way north toward the United States, which is the only place Javier's reach doesn't extend. As they join the countless people trying to reach el norte, Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to?"--Publisher.
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ISBN
9781401960568
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Books
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2020
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"Brooklyn Borough President and mayoral candidate Eric Adams is on a mission to tackle one of the most stubborn health problems in the country: chronic disease in the African American community. African Americans are heavier and sicker than any other group in the U.S., with nearly half of all black adults suffering from some form of cardiovascular disease. After Adams woke up with severe vision loss one day in 2016, he learned that he was one of the nearly 5 million black people living with diabetes-and, according to his doctor, he would have it for the rest of his life. A police officer for more than two decades, Adams was a connoisseur of the fast-food dollar menu. Like so many Americans with stressful jobs, the last thing he wanted to think about was eating healthfully. Fast food was easy, cheap, and comfortable. His diet followed him from the squad car to the state senate, and then to Brooklyn Borough Hall, where it finally caught up with him"--
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ISBN
9780374140182
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Books
Books
2021
Summary
"An urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"-the work that society considers essential but morally compromised"--
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ISBN
9781984826282
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Books
Books
2020
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"A cookbook with approximately 100 recipes for cozy comfort food on busy weeknights and for entertaining friends and family on slower weekends"--Provided by publisher.
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ISBN
9780803245259
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Books
Books
2020
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"Featuring an array of tempting traditional Native recipes and no-nonsense practical advice about health and fitness, "Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens" draws on the rich indigenous heritages of this continent to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life"-- Provided by publisher.
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ISBN
9781594206535
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Books
Books
Subject-Genre
2015
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A definitive portrait of the American statesman, based on unprecedented access to his private papers, challenges common misconceptions to trace Kissinger's beliefs to philosophical idealism.
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Preface -- Introduction -- Book I -- Chapter 1 Heimat -- Chapter 2 Escape -- Chapter 3 Fürth on the Hudson -- Chapter 4 An Unexpected Private -- Chapter 5 The Living and the Dead -- Chapter 6 In the Ruins of the Reich -- Book II -- Chapter 7 The Idealist -- Chapter 8 Psychological Warfare -- Chapter 9 Doctor Kissinger -- Chapter 10 Strangelove? -- Chapter 11 Boswash -- Book III Chapter 12 The Intellectual and the Policy Maker -- Chapter 13 Flexible Responses -- Chapter 14 Facts of Life -- Chapter 15 Crisis -- Book IV -- Chapter 16 The Road to Vietnam -- Chapter 17 The Unquiet American -- Chapter 18 Dirt Against the Wind -- Book V -- Chapter 19 The Anti-Bismarck -- Chapter 20 Waiting for Hanoi -- Chapter 21 1968 -- Chapter 22 The Unlikely Combination -- Epilogue: A Bildungsroman -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Sources -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
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ISBN
9781250831910
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Books
Books
Subject-Genre
2023
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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever it leads. But no one expected he would unearth a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. Now, Titus must pull off the impossible: stay true to his instincts, prevent outright panic, and investigate a shocking crime in a small town where everyone knows everyone yet secrets flourish. All while also breaking up backroads bar fights and being forced to protect racist Confederate pride marchers. For a Black man wearing a police uniform in the American South, that's no easy feat. But Charon is Titus's home and his heart, and he won't let the darkness overtake it. Even as it threatens to consume him"--
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