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  • Evicted
    Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
    Matthew Desmond
    Paperback: 02/28/2017
     
    From Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever ...
  • The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
    The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
    Bill Bryson
    Paperback: 09/25/2007
     
    A vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the ...
  • They Marched Into Sunlight
    They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967
    David Maraniss
    Paperback: 10/04/2004
     
    Moving between the campus at Madison and the jungles of Vietnam, with side trips to Hanoi and Washington, the ...
  • A Million Little Pieces
    A Million Little Pieces
    James Frey
    Paperback: 05/11/2004
     
    Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation ...
  • Class Action
    Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law
    Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler
    Paperback: 10/14/2003
     
    "This riveting, assiduously well-reported account follows the tortuous class-action lawsuit that redefined ...

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