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White Bread

A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

by Aaron Bobrow-Strain ...

The story of how white bread became white trash, this social history shows how our relationship with the love-it-or-hate-it food staple reflects our country’s changing valuesIn the early twentieth century, the factory-baked loaf heralded a bright new future, a world away from the hot, dusty, “dirty” bakeries run by immigrants. Fortified with vitamins, this bread was considered the original ... Read more

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The story of how white bread became white trash, this social history shows how our relationship with the love-it-or-hate-it food staple reflects our country’s changing valuesIn the early twentieth century, the factory-baked loaf heralded a bright new future, a world away from the hot, dusty, “dirty” bakeries run by immigrants. Fortified with vitamins, this bread was considered the original
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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez

A Border Story

by Aaron Bobrow-Strain ...

The award-winning biography of an undocumented teen mother's struggle with US immigration: "A rich, novelistic [and] illuminating work of literature" (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times Book Review).One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All TimeIn 1987, Aida Hernandez was born in Agua Prieta, Mexico. At the time, the nearby US border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, ... Read more

$15.19 USD

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The award-winning biography of an undocumented teen mother's struggle with US immigration: "A rich, novelistic [and] illuminating work of literature" (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times Book Review).One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All TimeIn 1987, Aida Hernandez was born in Agua Prieta, Mexico. At the time, the nearby US border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later,
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Intimate Enemies

Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas

by Aaron Bobrow-Strain ...

Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the state’s violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as “bad guys” with predetermined interests and obvious motives. Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes the landowners of Chiapas seriously, asking why ... Read more

$25.19 USD

Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the state’s violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as “bad guys” with predetermined interests and obvious motives. Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes the landowners of Chiapas seriously, asking why
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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez

A Border Story

by Aaron Bobrow-Strain ...

Narrated by Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Frankie Corzo ...

Unabridged

13 hours 15 min

****One of *AudioFile Magazine'*s Best Audiobooks of 2019**This program includes a chapter read by the author.What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system?**When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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****One of *AudioFile Magazine'*s Best Audiobooks of 2019**This program includes a chapter read by the author.What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system?**When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas,
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Yellow Bird

Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

by Sierra Crane Murdoch ...

Narrated by Sierra Crane Murdoch ...

Unabridged

14 hours 56 min

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism.“I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer ... Read more

$25.00 USD

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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism.“I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer
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Begin Again

James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

Narrated by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

Unabridged

7 hours 44 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—TimeJames Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune • One of ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—TimeJames Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune • One of
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Red at the Bone

A Novel

by Jacqueline Woodson ...

Narrated by Jacqueline Woodson, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Peter Francis James, Shayna Small, Bahni Turpin ...

Unabridged

3 hours 52 min

**Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by LitHub and The Millions.Called one of the Top 10 Literary Fiction titles of Fall by Publishers Weekly.An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.**Two families from different social ... Read more

$15.00 USD

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**Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by LitHub and The Millions.Called one of the Top 10 Literary Fiction titles of Fall by Publishers Weekly.An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.**Two families from different social
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The Twelve-Mile Straight

A Novel

by Eleanor Henderson ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

17 hours 4 min

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies--one light-skinned, the other dark--are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a ... Read more

$39.99 USD

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From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies--one light-skinned, the other dark--are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a
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How to Hide an Empire

A History of the Greater United States

by Daniel Immerwahr ...

Narrated by Luis Moreno ...

Unabridged

17 hours 25 min

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and archipelagos-this country has governed and inhabited? In How to ... Read more

$30.99 USD

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A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and archipelagos-this country has governed and inhabited? In How to
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Transcendent Kingdom: A Read with Jenna Pick

A novel

by Yaa Gyasi ...

Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

Unabridged

8 hours 40 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZEYaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.**Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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**NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZEYaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.**Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking
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Wonder Valley

A Novel

by Ivy Pochoda ...

Narrated by Will Damron ...

Unabridged

10 hours 40 min

“Destined to be a classic L.A. novel.”—Michael ConnellyWhen a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles.From the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary Los Angeles in all its facets, from the Mojave Desert ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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“Destined to be a classic L.A. novel.”—Michael ConnellyWhen a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles.From the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary Los Angeles in all its facets, from the Mojave Desert
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The Indestructible Jews

by Max I. Dimont ...

From the author of Jews, God, and History, this comprehensive history of the Jewish people is "an epic drama, searching and nobly conceived" ( Publishers Weekly).A compelling and readable account of the four thousand year history of a people that spans the globe and transcends the ages. From the ancient and simple faith of a small tribe to a global religion with adherents in every nation, the path ... Read more

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From the author of Jews, God, and History, this comprehensive history of the Jewish people is "an epic drama, searching and nobly conceived" ( Publishers Weekly).A compelling and readable account of the four thousand year history of a people that spans the globe and transcends the ages. From the ancient and simple faith of a small tribe to a global religion with adherents in every nation, the path
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