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Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Emily Kenway became the full-time caregiver for her terminally ill mother, her life was changed forever. While her friends outside were chasing down the successes and joys of life, for her, success was when her mother managed to drink half a fortified juice, and joy came from the dulled relief she felt on realizing they'd managed three hours' straight without a vomiting spate. Kenway found that she was far from alone: all around the world, millions...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Language
English
Description
When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers...
Author
Language
English
Description
America as we know it-wealthy, powerful, assertive-is not what Obama wants. He wants a smaller America, a poorer America, an America unable to exert its will, an America happy to be one power among many, an America in decline so that other nations might rise-all in the name of global fairness. To Obama, the hated "one percent" isn't just wealthy Americas; it is America itself. In Obama's view, America needs to be taken down a notch. That is the startling...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1970s, grain prices had tanked, farm auction notices filled newspapers, and people had forgotten that food didn't grow in grocery stores. So, on February 5, 1979, thousands of tractors from all parts of the US flooded Washington, DC, in protest"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Publishing's Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
Español
Description
"Following the stock market crash of 1929, the United States plummeted into the Great Depression and unemployment soared. But when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office the following year, he enacted federal programs, financial regulations, and public works projects to boost the economy and put America back together. In this . . . volume, students will discover . . . facts and . . . details about this series of reforms, called the New Deal. They'll also...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Aftermath is an assessment of how the baby boom created modern America, and where power, wealth, and politics will shift as the boom ends. Philip Bump fits numbers into a narrative about who we are (including what "we" really means), how we vote, where we live, what we buy--and what predictions we can make with any confidence. We know what will happen eventually to the baby boomers. What we don't know is how the boomer legacies might reshape the...
48) The forgotten: how the people of one Pennsylvania county elected Donald Trump and changed America
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Luzerne County Pennsylvania, as Ben Bradlee describes it, is a microcosm of the nation. While it boasts its own police, firemen, schools and municipal services, Luzerne has few urban centers and is fundamentally rural in character. And like so many of the 3,000 other counties that resemble it across America, Donald J. Trump won Luzerne County in 2016. But President Obama had carried Luzerne in both elections. What changed? And what does this mean...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The Scientific Revolution intertwined with finance to set England--and the world--off in an entirely new direction. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, England was running out of money due to a prolonged war with France. Parliament tried raising additional funds by selling debt to its citizens, taking in money now with the promise of interest later. It was the first permanent national debt, but still they needed more. They turned to the stock market--a...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global economy....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
During Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the '80s and '90s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty can have on individuals, families, and communities. Combining memoir with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, this is an uncompromising look at class, identity, and the particular...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Threshold editions paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
The New American Revolution is a fresh, fascinating book about the making of a grassroots movement that elected Donald Trump president, by RNC spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany. The book will feature the stories of people who voted for Donald Trump, and why they did so for deeply personal reasons on issues ranging from illegal immigration to religious freedom. Kayleigh McEnany has conducted on-the-ground interviews with these voters to explore the factors...
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The authors of the best-selling "The 100-Year Life" share practical advice based on three fundamental principles for helping governments, corporations and educational institutions flourish in a world transformed by longevity and technology.
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