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Seamus McElearney, Barbara Finkelstein
Flipping Capo

Séamus McElearney's early days on an FBI organized crime squad were full of grunt work. For months he was mired in administrative tasks, including the transcription of secret recordings of the DeCavalca…

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Henry Louis Mencken,
H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken was America's most prominent iconoclastic journalist of the first half of the 20th century, and he still has a considerable following. Mencken's writings have been in print continuously for o…

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Lyn Miller-Lachmann, Tanisia Moore
Film Makers

"In Hollywood, women don't have to be in front of the camera to shine. These phenomenal women have redefined the film and television industry, winning awards historically given to a male counterpart, bein…

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Cheryl Mullenbach
Women in Blue

Balancing deeply researched stories of trailblazers from the past with those of contemporary women, Women in Blue serves as both a historical reference and a career exploration resource. Original intervie…

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Arionne Nettles
We Are the Culture

"Black Chicago culture is American culture. During the Great Migration, more than a half million Black Americans moved from the South to Chicago, and with them, they brought the blues, amplifying what wou…

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Adam Nimoy
The Most Human

"While the tabloids and fan publications portrayed the Nimoys as a 'close family, ' to his son Adam, Leonard Nimoy was a total stranger. The actor was as inscrutable as the iconic half-Vulcan science offi…

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Adam Nimoy
The Most Human

"Adam Nimoy has written about the challenges growing up with his famous father and about their estrangement later in life. The fact that Leonard and Adam found a way to rebuild their relationship should r…

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Amanda Oliver
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library

"One part love letter, one part eulogy, Overdue tells the story of America's public library system . . . Amanda Oliver proves herself a vibrant new literary voice . . . This is a book for all book lovers.…

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Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan
Animal Allies

NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students Winner, 2022 > These 15 women work with animals on land, air, and sea. Corina Newsome is saving seaside sparrows while Michelle LaRue uses satellites to…

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Dylan Park-Pettiford
Roadside

A military memoir by a biracial child of refugees and survivors, Roadside is about life and death, about family lost and gained, and about America, as a dream and a reality. It's about the roads one takes…

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Jerry Portnoy
Dancing with Muddy

Jerry Portnoy grew up in Chicago hearing the blues being played outside his father's rug store on famed Maxwell Street during the late 1940s and early '50s. After dropping out of college, he became imme…

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Greg Prato
100 Things Pearl Jam Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

Few music groups have been able to sustain a fan base as passionate and dedicated as that of Pearl Jam, and this entertaining guide rewards those fans with everything they need to know about the band in a…

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Gregory Royal Pratt
The City Is Up for Grabs

"Crime is up, schools have repeatedly shut down due to conflict between City Hall and the powerful teachers' union, and COVID-19 only deepened the entrenched poverty, institutional racism, and endless tug…

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Gregory Royal Pratt
The City Is Up for Grabs

"Gregory Pratt had a rare front-row seat to the passions, problems, peculiarities, hopes, disappointments, shenanigans, and pettiness in the drama and farce that was Lori Lightfoot's uneasy tenure on the …

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Hilary Pym, Honor Wyatt
The Barbara Pym Cookbook

· Readers of twentieth-century literary fiction· Fans of English domestic dramas· Jane Austen fans looking for more contemporary reads

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Ellery Queen
Calamity Town

Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for …

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Valerie Reynolds,
The Joys of Being a Little Black Boy

The Joys of Being a Little Black Boy is a vividly illustrated children's book that brings to life Roy, a joyful Black boy. Roy takes young readers on a upbeat journey through history to meet some of the…

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Valerie Reynolds,
The Twirl of Being a Little Black Girl

"She takes young readers on her journey through history to meet some of the world's most powerful Black women who were each, at one time, a young Black girl. Teaching young children not only about these g…

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Mark Ribowsky
Chet

Chet Atkins was one of the most legendary country guitarists of the 1950s, but his influence spans both instruments and time. The Country Gentleman developed a distinctive picking style that helped pion…

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Teruko Saito
Money-lending Contracts in Konbaung Burma

Various contractual deeds were exchanged between people in Burmese dynastic society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These deeds, known as thet-kayits, especially debt deeds, are valuable docum…

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