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  I've Been Here All the While -...

  Alaina E. Roberts

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  Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "forty acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic forty acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. 
   
   
   
  In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others. 
   
   
   
  Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land.

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  The Power of Choice - How to...

  Kelly Weekers

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  In The Power of Choice, her most personal book to date, the bestselling Dutch author and psychologist invites readers into her private life and shares her thoughts on friendship, ambition, motherhood, love, loss, self-esteem and more. The book, full of simple yet effective expert advice, feels like a nice chat with a good friend. Without telling you what to do, Kelly helps you explore how to make your own right choices - by asking yourself better questions - and take back control of different aspects in your life. 
  Her characteristic, no-nonsense way of writing has resulted in a book brimming with joie de vivre, humor and a healthy sense of perspective.

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  The Uptown Local - Joy Death and...

  Cory Leadbeater

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  A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction—and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion 
  As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was kept confidential. Since the tumultuous days of childhood, Cory had sought refuge from the rougher parts of life in the pages of books. Suddenly, he found himself the personal assistant to a titan of literature: Joan Didion. 
  In the nine years that followed, Cory shared Joan’s rarefied world, transformed not only by her blazing intellect but by her generous friendship and mentorship. Together they recited poetry in the mornings, dined with Supreme Court justices, attended art openings, smoked a single cigarette before bed. 
  But secretly, Cory was spiraling. He reeled from the death of a close friend. He spent his weekends at a federal prison, visiting his father as he served time for fraud. He struggled day after day to write the novel that would validate him as a real writer. And meanwhile, the forces of addiction and depression loomed large. 
  In hypnotic prose that pulses with life and longing, The Uptown Local explores the fault lines of class, family, loss, and creativity. It is a love letter to a cultural icon—and a moving testament to the relationships that sustain us in the eternal pursuit of a life worth living. 

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  KGB History: 100 Years Of Soviet...

  HISTORY FOREVER

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  ★ Did you know that the first KGB was called Cheka and formed in 1917? ★ 
  ★ Did you know that the KGB once was the largest secret police and foreign-intelligence organization in the world? ★ 
    
  ★ BUY THIS BOOK NOW AND LEARN ABOUT THE LARGEST SECRET POLICE TODAY! ★ 
  In this book you will discover; 
  ·       Why KGB is so feared 
  ·       The Early Years of KGB - Cheka 
  ·       The Early Years of KGB - GPU 
  ·       The Early Years of KGB - OGPU 
  ·       OGPU & The Soviet State 
  ·       The NKVD and the Forming of KGB 
  ·       The new KGB: FSK & FSB 
  ·       How Stalin's NKVD Spies Took Down Trotsky       
  ·       The end of a superpower - The collapse of the Soviet Union 
  ·       How Novichok used as Political Instrument 
  ★ BUY THIS BOOK NOW AND LEARN ABOUT THE LARGEST SECRET POLICE TODAY! ★

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  The War on Warriors - Behind the...

  Pete Hegseth

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  AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 
  Real men fought for our freedoms. It’s time we fought for theirs. 
  Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness. 
  Americans with common sense are fighting this on many fronts, but if we can’t save the meritocracy of our military, we’re definitely going to lose everywhere else. 
  The War on Warriors uncovers the deep roots of our dysfunction—a society that has forgotten the men who take risks, cut through red tape, and get their hands dirty. The only kind of men prepared to face the dan­gers that the Left pretends don’t exist. Unlike issues of education or taxes or crime, this problem doesn’t have a zip code solution. We can’t move away from it. We can’t avoid it. We have only one Pentagon. Either we take it back or surrender it altogether. 
  Combining his own war experiences, tales of outrage, and an incisive look at how the chain of com­mand got so kinked, this book is the key to saving our warriors—and winning future wars. The War on War­riors must be won by the good guys, because when the shooting really starts, they’re the only ones who can save us.

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  Human Psychology and Language...

  Allen Young

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  Humans use their languages to communicate for their successes in the survival, social, economic, sexual, political, competitive, collaborative, creative, and procreative human endeavors. 
  In this book, Allen Young, the transhumanistic Asian-American man, specifies how the psychological human linguistic capabilities should be used in advancing linguistic artificial intelligence.

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