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The Shriver Report

A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink

by Maria Shriver, The Center for American Progress, Olivia Morgan, Karen Skelton, Carol Gilligan, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Barbara Ehrenreich, Heather Boushey, Maya L. Harris0, Ai-jen Poo1, Danielle Moodie-Mills2, Angela Glover Blackwell3, Eva Longoria4, Ann O'Leary5, Lebron James6, Catherine Emmanuelle7, Ron Haskins8, Kathryn Edin9, Tony Porter0, John Bouman1, Wendy Pollack2, Stephanie Coontz3, Jennifer Garner4, Almeta Keys5, Arne Duncan6, Kathleen Sebelius7, Betsy Price8, Nikki Brown9, Jada Pinkett Smith0, Britani Hood-Mongar1, Anne-Marie Slaughter2, Marianne Cooper3, Melissa Boteach4, Shawn Fremstad5, Ellen Galinsky6, James T. Bond7, Eve Tahmincioglu8, Families and Work Institute9, Anne Mosle0, Hillary Rodham Clinton1, Anna Greenberg2, David Walker3, Alex Lundry4, Alicia Downs5, Tory Burch6, Kristen Gillibrand7, Howard Schultz8, Joan Chittister9, Anthony P. Carnevale0, Nicole Smith1, Eduardo J. Padrón2, Nadine Burke Harris3, Ron Manderschied4, Sonya Borrero5 ...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or ... Read more

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Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or
... Read more
The Indie Author Potluck Cookbook

by Sarah L. Carter, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Aimee Easterling, Anna Hess, Sibel Hodge, Ros Jackson, Shiao-jang Kung, Marie Long, Raquel Lyon, Zelah Meyer, Dawn Lee McKenna, T.K. Richardson, Caddy Rowland, J.E. Taylor, Stella Wilkinson, Sarah Weaver, Monica La Porta ...

The Indie Author Potluck Cookbook is a privately operated charity project designed to raise funds and awareness for the Food Bank of South Jersey. All contributors to this collection have donated their time and recipes in support of the project. This cookbook features a true "potluck" feel with a variety of appetizers, main courses, and desserts, as well as short stories, book excerpts, and author ... Read more

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The Indie Author Potluck Cookbook is a privately operated charity project designed to raise funds and awareness for the Food Bank of South Jersey. All contributors to this collection have donated their time and recipes in support of the project. This cookbook features a true "potluck" feel with a variety of appetizers, main courses, and desserts, as well as short stories, book excerpts, and author
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The Black Body

Translated by Eilis Kierans, Sandra Waters ...

by Anna Maria Gehnyei (Karima 2G) ...

Series series Other Voices of Italy
Best Translation of a Literary Work Published in 2025 from the American Association of Italian StudiesIn her memoir, Anna Maria Gehnyei, better known as singer, rapper, and producer Karima 2G, reveals the challenges she faced as the child of Liberian immigrants, born and raised in Rome but perpetually viewed by her fellow Italians as a foreigner.The daughter of the first Kpelle man to ever leave ... Read more

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Best Translation of a Literary Work Published in 2025 from the American Association of Italian StudiesIn her memoir, Anna Maria Gehnyei, better known as singer, rapper, and producer Karima 2G, reveals the challenges she faced as the child of Liberian immigrants, born and raised in Rome but perpetually viewed by her fellow Italians as a foreigner.The daughter of the first Kpelle man to ever leave
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Jews in American Politics

Essays

by Joyce Antler, Jerome A. Chanes, David G. Dalin, Matthew R. Kerbel, Connie L. McNeely, Gerald M. Pomper, Miles A. Pomper, Edward Shapiro, David M. Shribman, Susan J. Tolchin, Kenneth D. Wald, Stephen J. Whitfield, Robert A. Burt, Benjamin Ginsberg, Anna Greenberg, Joseph I. Lieberman, Steven L. Spiegel ...

Joseph Lieberman's Vice Presidential nomination and Presidential candidacy are neither the first nor last words on signal Jewish achievements in American politics. Jews have played an important role in American government since the early 1800s at least, and in view of the 2004 election, there is no political office outside the reach of Jewish American citizens.For the first time, Jews in American ... Read more

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Joseph Lieberman's Vice Presidential nomination and Presidential candidacy are neither the first nor last words on signal Jewish achievements in American politics. Jews have played an important role in American government since the early 1800s at least, and in view of the 2004 election, there is no political office outside the reach of Jewish American citizens.For the first time, Jews in American
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Political Polling in the Digital Age

The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion

by Susan Herbst, Scott Keeter, Anna Greenberg, Charles Franklin, Mark Blumenthal ...

Series series Media and Public Affairs
The 2008 presidential election provided a "perfect storm" for pollsters. A significant portion of the population had exchanged their landlines for cellphones, which made them harder to survey. Additionally, a potential Bradley effect -- in which white voters misrepresent their intentions of voting for or against a black candidate -- skewed predictions, and aggressive voter registration and ... Read more

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The 2008 presidential election provided a "perfect storm" for pollsters. A significant portion of the population had exchanged their landlines for cellphones, which made them harder to survey. Additionally, a potential Bradley effect -- in which white voters misrepresent their intentions of voting for or against a black candidate -- skewed predictions, and aggressive voter registration and
... Read more

The Dragon Blood Collection, Books 1-3

An Epic Fantasy Adventure Series

by Lindsay Buroker ...

Series series Dragon Blood
A thousand years have passed since a dragon has been seen in the world. Science and technology have replaced magic, which has dwindled until it has become little more than an element of myth and legend.There are those who still have dragon blood flowing through their veins, distant descendants of the mighty creatures of old. These rare humans have the power to cast magic, the power to heal, and ... Read more

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A thousand years have passed since a dragon has been seen in the world. Science and technology have replaced magic, which has dwindled until it has become little more than an element of myth and legend.There are those who still have dragon blood flowing through their veins, distant descendants of the mighty creatures of old. These rare humans have the power to cast magic, the power to heal, and
... Read more
When We Walk By

Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America

by Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes ...

**How to end homelessness in America: a must-read guide to understanding housing instability, supporting our unhoused neighbors, and reclaiming our humanity.A deeply humanizing analysis that will change the way you think about poverty and homelessness—for the socially engaged reader of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste and Matthew Desmond's Evicted.**Think about the last time that you saw or interacted ... Read more

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**How to end homelessness in America: a must-read guide to understanding housing instability, supporting our unhoused neighbors, and reclaiming our humanity.A deeply humanizing analysis that will change the way you think about poverty and homelessness—for the socially engaged reader of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste and Matthew Desmond's Evicted.**Think about the last time that you saw or interacted
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Ilustrado

A Novel

by Miguel Syjuco ...

Garnering international prizes and acclaim before its publication, Ilustrado has been called "brilliantly conceived and stylishly executed . . .It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with humor" (2008 Man Asian Literary Prize panel of judges).It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River ... Read more

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Garnering international prizes and acclaim before its publication, Ilustrado has been called "brilliantly conceived and stylishly executed . . .It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with humor" (2008 Man Asian Literary Prize panel of judges).It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River
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Dream Hoarders

How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

by Richard V. Reeves ...

Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent?we are the ... Read more

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Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent?we are the
... Read more

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Not Quite Adults

Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good forEveryone

by Richard Settersten, Barbara E. Ray ...

Why are 20-somethings delaying adulthood? The media have flooded us with negative headlines about this generation, from their sense of entitlement to their immaturity. Drawing on almost a decade of cutting-edge research and nearly five hundred interviews with young people, Richard Settersten, Ph.D., and Barbara E. Ray shatter these stereotypes, revealing an unexpected truth: A slower path to ... Read more

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Why are 20-somethings delaying adulthood? The media have flooded us with negative headlines about this generation, from their sense of entitlement to their immaturity. Drawing on almost a decade of cutting-edge research and nearly five hundred interviews with young people, Richard Settersten, Ph.D., and Barbara E. Ray shatter these stereotypes, revealing an unexpected truth: A slower path to
... Read more
The Beach at Night

by Elena Ferrante ...

Translated by Ann Goldstein ...

A "beautifully written" dark fable from a doll's point of view—by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Lost Daughter and the Neapolitan Novels ( The Washington Post).One of NPR's Best Books of the Year.Readers of Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter may recall the little doll—lost or stolen—around which that novel revolves. Here, Ferrante retells the tale from the doll's perspective.Celina i ... Read more

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A "beautifully written" dark fable from a doll's point of view—by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Lost Daughter and the Neapolitan Novels ( The Washington Post).One of NPR's Best Books of the Year.Readers of Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter may recall the little doll—lost or stolen—around which that novel revolves. Here, Ferrante retells the tale from the doll's perspective.Celina i
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La Superba

by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer ...

Translated by Michele Hutchison ...

"An ode to the imagination."—NRC HandelsbladA joy to read, La Superba, winner of the most prestigious Dutch literary prize, is a Rabelaisian, stylistic tour-de-force. Migration, legal and illegal, is at the center of this novel about a writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in mysterious and exotic Genoa, the labyrinthine port city nicknamed "La Superba."Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (b. ... Read more

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"An ode to the imagination."—NRC HandelsbladA joy to read, La Superba, winner of the most prestigious Dutch literary prize, is a Rabelaisian, stylistic tour-de-force. Migration, legal and illegal, is at the center of this novel about a writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in mysterious and exotic Genoa, the labyrinthine port city nicknamed "La Superba."Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (b.
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