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The Dead Letter Room: Where Unspoken Words Wait…

by R. Scott McLaughlin ...

Beneath the fluorescent order of the Havensport Regional Postal Facility, there is a room where undeliverable mail waits for one last attempt. Claire Halston believes dignity lives in procedure: don't pry, don't trespass, don't turn a stranger's letter into your own story. Ben Mercer believes some rules exist to be challenged by conscience-especially when a piece of paper is the only bridge a ... Read more

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Beneath the fluorescent order of the Havensport Regional Postal Facility, there is a room where undeliverable mail waits for one last attempt. Claire Halston believes dignity lives in procedure: don't pry, don't trespass, don't turn a stranger's letter into your own story. Ben Mercer believes some rules exist to be challenged by conscience-especially when a piece of paper is the only bridge a
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Where Are the Workers?

Labor's Stories at Museums and Historic Sites

by Jim Beauchesne, Rebekah Bryer, Rebecca Bush, Conor Casey, Rachel Donaldson, Kathleen Flynn, Elijah Gaddis, Susan Grabski, Amanda Kay Gustin, Karen Lane, Rob Linné, Erik Loomis, Tom MacMillan, Lou Martin, Scott McLaughlin, Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan, Karen Sieber, Katrina Windon ...

Series series Working Class in American History
The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and Mary Anne Trasciatti edit a collection of essays focused on nationwide efforts to propel the history of labor and working people into mainstream narratives of US history. In Part One, the contributors ... Read more

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The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and Mary Anne Trasciatti edit a collection of essays focused on nationwide efforts to propel the history of labor and working people into mainstream narratives of US history. In Part One, the contributors
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One Mirror, Many Faces

by R. Scott McLaughlin ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Richard Harrison Patterson E ...

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6 hours 44 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.One Mirror, Many Faces is a literary novel about attention, responsibility, and the quiet ways inner life shapes what we encounter.The story follows a man who begins to notice subtle patterns—small coincidences that seem emotionally precise, encounters that arrive with unexpected weight. Nothing supernatural is proven. Nothing is explained. Yet the ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.One Mirror, Many Faces is a literary novel about attention, responsibility, and the quiet ways inner life shapes what we encounter.The story follows a man who begins to notice subtle patterns—small coincidences that seem emotionally precise, encounters that arrive with unexpected weight. Nothing supernatural is proven. Nothing is explained. Yet the
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Dead Letter Room, The

Where Unspoken Words Wait...

by R. Scott McLaughlin ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Gabriel Paul Turner E ...

Unabridged

7 hours 43 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Beneath the fluorescent order of the Havensport Regional Postal Facility, there is aroom where undeliverable mail waits for one last attempt. Claire Halston believesdignity lives in procedure: don't pry, don't trespass, don't turn a stranger's letter intoyour own story. Ben Mercer believes some rules exist to be challenged byconscience-especially when ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Beneath the fluorescent order of the Havensport Regional Postal Facility, there is aroom where undeliverable mail waits for one last attempt. Claire Halston believesdignity lives in procedure: don't pry, don't trespass, don't turn a stranger's letter intoyour own story. Ben Mercer believes some rules exist to be challenged byconscience-especially when
... Read more

Democracy in Chains

The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

by Nancy MacLean ...

**Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all ... Read more

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**Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all
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Myth America

Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer ...

**In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past“Outstanding… Wonderfully accessible.” —Washington Post**The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making ... Read more

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**In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past“Outstanding… Wonderfully accessible.” —Washington Post**The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making
... Read more

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News for All the People

The Epic Story of Race and the American Media

by Juan Gonzalez, Joseph Torres ...

A new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the storyFrom the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to—and every so often, combated—racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation ... Read more

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A new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the storyFrom the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to—and every so often, combated—racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation
... Read more
Systemic Racism 101

A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America

by Living Cities, Aminah Pilgrim ...

Discover how—and why—Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement.From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to ... Read more

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Discover how—and why—Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement.From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to
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Contested Waters

A Social History of Swimming Pools in America

by Jeff Wiltse ...

From nineteenth-century public baths to today’s private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of ... Read more

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From nineteenth-century public baths to today’s private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of
... Read more
The New Geography

How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape

by Joel Kotkin ...

In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines the new role of cities in America and takes us into the new American neighborhood. The New ... Read more

$6.99 USD

In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines the new role of cities in America and takes us into the new American neighborhood. The New
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The Gateway Arch

by Tracy Campbell ...

Series series Icons of America
This "fascinating, engaging" history of St. Louis's monument to American expansion reveals a story of greed, discrimination, and community displacement (NextSTL.com).Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the Gateway Arch is one of the world's most widely recognized structures and attracts millions of tourists to St. Louis every year. Envisioned in 1947 but not completed until the mid-1960s, ... Read more

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This "fascinating, engaging" history of St. Louis's monument to American expansion reveals a story of greed, discrimination, and community displacement (NextSTL.com).Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the Gateway Arch is one of the world's most widely recognized structures and attracts millions of tourists to St. Louis every year. Envisioned in 1947 but not completed until the mid-1960s,
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Young and Restless

The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions

by Mattie Kahn ...

**NPR's Books We Love 2023Glamour's "The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far"*Vogue's "*Best Books of 2023 (So Far)"*Town & Country's "*The Best Books of 2023"A "heartening inspiration"(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls**Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus ... Read more

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**NPR's Books We Love 2023Glamour's "The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far"*Vogue's "*Best Books of 2023 (So Far)"*Town & Country's "*The Best Books of 2023"A "heartening inspiration"(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls**Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus
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