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WANTING

How One Man's Refusal to Accept the Life He Was Given Became the Most Important Book About the American Dream Anyone Has Written This Century

by Harry Klintebring, JOSEPH CALLOWAY ...

You already know this feeling.You did everything right. You worked harder than everyone around you. You believed the promise — that effort plus intelligence plus refusing to quit would eventually close the distance between where you were born and where you deserved to be. You walked toward the lights. You kept walking.And then you arrived. And you saw the wall.The Wanting is the novel that finally ... Read more

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You already know this feeling.You did everything right. You worked harder than everyone around you. You believed the promise — that effort plus intelligence plus refusing to quit would eventually close the distance between where you were born and where you deserved to be. You walked toward the lights. You kept walking.And then you arrived. And you saw the wall.The Wanting is the novel that finally
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Shaking Rio Arriba Down

The Courthouse Raid

by Larry Joseph Calloway ...

Nearly sixty years ago, a small group of activists led by Reies López Tijerina stormed the courthouse in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico-an event that would come to symbolize deep divisions in the American Southwest. In Shaking Rio Arriba Down: The Courthouse Raid, veteran journalist Larry Joseph Calloway revisits the dramatic 1967 uprising and its enduring impact on politics, culture, and identity in ... Read more

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Nearly sixty years ago, a small group of activists led by Reies López Tijerina stormed the courthouse in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico-an event that would come to symbolize deep divisions in the American Southwest. In Shaking Rio Arriba Down: The Courthouse Raid, veteran journalist Larry Joseph Calloway revisits the dramatic 1967 uprising and its enduring impact on politics, culture, and identity in
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

by Jonathan Blitzer ...

**A National Bestseller • A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, Christian Science Monitor, and Counterpunch • One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks • Named a Notable Book by New York Times and Washington Post • Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Exce... ... Read more

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**A National Bestseller • A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, Christian Science Monitor, and Counterpunch • One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks • Named a Notable Book by New York Times and Washington Post • Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Exce...
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Miami

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An account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking.In *Miami, New York Times–*bestselling author Joan Didion looks beyond postcard images of fluorescent waters, backlit islands, and pastel architecture to explore the murkier waters of a city on the edge.From Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs ... Read more

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An account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking.In *Miami, New York Times–*bestselling author Joan Didion looks beyond postcard images of fluorescent waters, backlit islands, and pastel architecture to explore the murkier waters of a city on the edge.From Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs
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Hidden Terrors

The Truth About U.S. Police Operations in Latin America

by A. J. Langguth ...

Series Book 27 - Forbidden Bookshelf
A "devastating" exposé of the United States' Latin American policy and the infamous career and assassination of agent Dan Mitrione ( Kirkus Reviews).In 1960, former Richmond, Indiana, police chief Dan Mitrione moved to Brazil to begin a new career with the United States Agency for International Development. During his ten years with the USAID, Mitrione trained and oversaw foreign police forces in ... Read more

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A "devastating" exposé of the United States' Latin American policy and the infamous career and assassination of agent Dan Mitrione ( Kirkus Reviews).In 1960, former Richmond, Indiana, police chief Dan Mitrione moved to Brazil to begin a new career with the United States Agency for International Development. During his ten years with the USAID, Mitrione trained and oversaw foreign police forces in
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Nobody Is Protected

How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States

by Reece Jones ...

Now more resonant than ever amid escalating ICE raids and enforcement crackdowns targeting immigrants and American citizens alike, Nobody is Protected is an urgent examination of the U.S. Border Patrol—from its xenophobic founding to its ongoing assault on the 4th AmendmentLate one July night in 2020, armed men, identified only by the word POLICE written across their uniforms, began snatching ... Read more

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Now more resonant than ever amid escalating ICE raids and enforcement crackdowns targeting immigrants and American citizens alike, Nobody is Protected is an urgent examination of the U.S. Border Patrol—from its xenophobic founding to its ongoing assault on the 4th AmendmentLate one July night in 2020, armed men, identified only by the word POLICE written across their uniforms, began snatching
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The Year of Dangerous Days

Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980

by Nicholas Griffin ...

Series series A Wild Year in Miami's History
In the tradition of The Wire, the “utterly absorbing” (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of America’s bustling cities—rife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning refugee crisis, and police brutality—from journalist and award-winning author Nicholas Griffin.Miami, Florida, famed for its blue skies and sandy beaches, is one of the world’s most popular vacation ... Read more

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In the tradition of The Wire, the “utterly absorbing” (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of America’s bustling cities—rife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning refugee crisis, and police brutality—from journalist and award-winning author Nicholas Griffin.Miami, Florida, famed for its blue skies and sandy beaches, is one of the world’s most popular vacation
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LatinoLand

A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

by Marie Arana ...

“A perfect representation of Latino diversity” (The Washington Post), LatinoLand draws from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research to give us both a vibrant portrait and the little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority, in “a work of prophecy, sympathy, and courage” (Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of ... Read more

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“A perfect representation of Latino diversity” (The Washington Post), LatinoLand draws from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research to give us both a vibrant portrait and the little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority, in “a work of prophecy, sympathy, and courage” (Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of
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The Crossing

El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story

by Richard Parker ...

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year “Top Pick”“American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,’ Parker asserts, in this sweeping history.” —The New YorkerA revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two-thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas—heart of Indigenous power and resistance, locus ... Read more

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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year “Top Pick”“American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,’ Parker asserts, in this sweeping history.” —The New YorkerA revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two-thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas—heart of Indigenous power and resistance, locus
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Big Wonderful Thing

A History of Texas

by Stephen Harrigan ...

Series series The Texas Bookshelf
2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and ... Read more

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2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and
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New Mexico

A History

by Robert L. Spude, Joseph P. Sanchez, Arthur R. Gomez ...

Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route 66, the interstate highway system, and now the Internet.This first complete history of New Mexico in ... Read more

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Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route 66, the interstate highway system, and now the Internet.This first complete history of New Mexico in
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California

An American History

by John Mack Faragher ...

A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation“A masterful history.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California’s multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles.”—Carlos E. Cortés, University of California, ... Read more

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A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation“A masterful history.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California’s multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles.”—Carlos E. Cortés, University of California,
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