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Nickel and Dimed
: On (Not) Getting By in America
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Barbara Ehrenreich
Hardcover: May 2001
Paperback: 1 May 2002
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Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. |
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Seabiscuit
: An American Legend
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Laura Hillenbrand
Hardcover: Mar 2001
Paperback: 1 Mar 2002
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Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race. |
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Founding Brothers
: The Revolutionary Generation
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Joseph J.
Ellis
Hardcover: Oct 2000
Paperback: 1 Feb 2002
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Informs our understanding of American politics--then and now--and gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history. |
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The Price of Motherhood
: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued
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Ann Crittenden
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: 1 Jan 2002
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Bold and galvanizing, full of innovative solutions, The Price of Motherhood reveals the glaring disparity between the value created by mothers' work and the reward women receive for carrying out society's most important job. |
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Fast Food Nation
: The Dark Side of The All American Meal
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Eric Schlosser
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: 1 Jan 2002
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A groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats. |
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The Avengers
: A Jewish War Story
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Rich Cohen
Hardcover: Oct 2000
Paperback: 1 Oct 2001
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The true story of a band of Jewish guerrillas, called the Avengers, in World War II. What happened to these rebels in the ghetto and in the forest, and how, fighting for the State of Israel, they moved beyond the violence of the Holocaust and made new lives. |
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