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Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Hardcover: Nov 2009
Paperback: 1 Sep 2010
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Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits - from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth - and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.

Half the Sky : Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof , Sheryl WuDunn
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle : A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 29 Apr 2008
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Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction
by Sue William Silverman
Hardcover: May 2001
Paperback: 14 Feb 2008
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A powerful, deeply personal and often lyrical memoir of a woman learning to value herself as a person rather than a sex object, after years of sexual abuse by her father.  Silverman's message is relevant to anyone suffering from addictions.

The World Is Flat : A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas Friedman
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 24 Jul 2007
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A timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.

Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 1 Apr 2007
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Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.

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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world.
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Karen Joy Fowler

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The story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel.
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The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with...
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