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As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets--among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident--people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children. Strangers in Their Own Land goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests. Instead, Hochschild finds lives ripped apart by stagnant wages, a loss of home, an elusive American dream--and political choices and views that make sense in the context of their lives. Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of the sociology of emotion to help us understand what it feels like to live in \"red\" America. 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Still grieving his brother's murder and troubled by the country's divisions over race, poverty, and Vietnam, Kennedy launched a campaign that drew large, emotional crowds across the country. 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Each chapter runs roughly a dozen pages, combining basic biography with the historians' reasoning for a president's placement. 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With extraordinary insight, Robert Tombs examines language, literature, law, religion, politics, and more while investigating the sources of England's collective memory and belief. The English and Their History spans 700,000 years, from the island's very first inhabitants to the present day, stopping along the way to recount the tales of conquerors, kings, and queens; a nation's myths and legends, facts and extraordinary truths. No history of England has come close to matching the scale and scope of this historical masterwork--with an eye for detail to rival his ambition, Tombs has managed to cover every significant happening and development over hundreds of thousands of years while accessibly explaining how they connect. 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Four years later all had vanished in the chaos of World War I. One event precipitated the conflict, and at its heart was a tragic love story. When Austrian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand married for love against the wishes of the emperor, he and his wife Sophie were humiliated and shunned, yet they remained devoted to each other and to their children. The two bullets fired in Sarajevo not only ended their love story, but also led to war and decades of conflict. Challenging a century of myth, this moving portrait of the end of an era also offers the startling truth behind the Sarajevo assassinations--including Serbian complicity--and examines rumors of conspiracy and official negligence.--From publisher description.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6pdrfyn0x2vx6hqnvh2m22.jpg?v=738ff85ac7","L04-;A0e00M|^+M|0LWV00?H?F-o",2013,384,[687,691],{"id":688,"slug":689,"name":690},"01kx6pdrfrev9d852607s3xmxf","greg-king-hcww","Greg King",{"id":692,"slug":693,"name":694},"01kx6nacznktxab0tnp6kdfx1r","sue-woolmans-xowp","Sue Woolmans",[696,697,701,702,703],{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":17},{"id":698,"name":699,"slug":700,"is_fiction":16},55,"World War I","world-war-i",{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":17},{"id":27,"name":28,"slug":29,"is_fiction":17},{"id":99,"name":100,"slug":101,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":61,"complexity":7,"audience":62,"mood":706,"themes":707,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[64,110,152],[],{"key":709,"params":710,"works":711},"genre",{"genre":36},[712,734,753,781,803,826],{"id":713,"slug":714,"title":715,"description":716,"primary_cover_url":717,"cover_blurhash":718,"first_publish_year":719,"community_rating_avg":456,"community_rating_count":457,"page_count":720,"authors":721,"genres":726,"series":730,"enrichment":731},"01kx27p2svvwepgyk3gnd4q0xm","aint-i-a-woman-5dwr","Ain't I a Woman","A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote *Ain't I a Woman* (published ten years later). 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Born in splendor difficult to imagine today, she endured a lifetime of relentless tragedy with courage and exceptional powers of adjustment. The Last Grand Duchess is a valuable account of the final decades of the house of Romanov as seen through the eyes of its last surviving member. Through Olga, we meet Queen Victoria, George V of England, Rasputin, Mrs. Anderson - on whose story the movie Anastasia was made - and other impostors who plagued the exiled duchess with false hope. In this official memoir, Ian Vorres captures the loneliness and violence of Olga's years in Russia, her loveless first marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, her years of exile in England and Denmark, and her final settlement with her second husband and family in Canada.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nb389wtpv472vsskg8f5w.jpg?v=8f7818a0d3","LBLymSE1Q8rt4mRi%MxvY+xb*0xu",1964,256,[763],{"id":764,"slug":765,"name":766},"01kx6nb384563fnrc58ymtnd9m","ian-vorres-idbg","Ian Vorres",[768,772,773,774],{"id":769,"name":770,"slug":771,"is_fiction":16},34,"Historical Romance","historical-romance",{"id":698,"name":699,"slug":700,"is_fiction":16},{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":17},{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":149,"complexity":7,"audience":62,"mood":777,"themes":779,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[778,152],"romantic",[780,282],"forbidden-love",{"id":782,"slug":783,"title":784,"description":785,"primary_cover_url":786,"cover_blurhash":787,"first_publish_year":616,"community_rating_avg":788,"community_rating_count":457,"page_count":789,"authors":790,"genres":795,"series":799,"enrichment":800},"01kx2bk08tj3mt47crfa5kcsk4","long-live-the-tribe-of-fatherless-girls-ucyq","Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls","\"The book I wish I'd had growing up.\" —Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name Best Books of 2019: Esquire O, The Oprah Magazine Variety Lit Hub Book Riot Electric Literature Autostraddle Finalist: NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Lambda Literary Award New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection Paste Best Memoirs of the Decade Elle Best Books of the Season Washington Post Best Books of the Month Indie Next Pick Indies Introduce Pick \"A fearless debut.\" — New York Times \"[A] gorgeous reckoning.\" — Washington Post \"Flat out breathtaking.\" — Lit Hub \"Gripping and gloriously written.\" — Elle \"Utterly unforgettable.\" — NYLON \"Unnervingly satisfying.\" — Oprah Magazine \"Deeply compassionate.\" —NPR.org \"Truly stunning.\" — Cosmopolitan Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight. As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. 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Nowhere in Europe has the Roman Catholic Church exerted a more mystical hold on the life of a nation than it has in Spain. Yet this hold has not been unchanging or unchallenged. By the mid-eighteenth century the Church was no longer the only legitimate source of authority, the all-pervasive presence that it had been, most forcefully in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Still, its power remained formidable. The Spanish Church imposed standards of conduct over the entire range of society, from the aristocracy to the peasant masses, and it possessed the material resources necessary to maintain an elaborate ecclesiastical network that influenced every aspect of Spanish life. The heart of the book deals with the reactions of the Church to the dramatic, sometimes violent, changes that occurred during the critical nineteenth-century period of national transition from royal absolutism to popular liberalism. The study examines the responses of the Church to the new social and political forces that could no longer be excluded or contained, among them an emergent secular--even anticlerical--culture and a developing capitalism.Callahan demonstrates that these changes engendered resentments and frustrations deep within the ecclesiastical order that persisted well into the twentieth century, notably with the Spanish Church's embrace of Franco.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kx2a91wdrsvq8m8cab2zp44t.jpg?v=40f5ef3581","LwKSg$WDoKxW~8jHR+WV%JWCsmWp",[811],{"id":812,"slug":813,"name":814},"01kjqz7rn338hakt9x7rffhvn0","henry-david-thoreau-lynz","Henry David Thoreau",[816,817],{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":17},{"id":818,"name":819,"slug":820,"is_fiction":17},93,"Nature","nature",[],{"pace":149,"complexity":7,"audience":62,"mood":823,"themes":825,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[65,824],"philosophical",[],{"id":827,"slug":828,"title":829,"description":830,"primary_cover_url":831,"cover_blurhash":832,"first_publish_year":833,"community_rating_avg":456,"community_rating_count":457,"page_count":834,"authors":835,"genres":840,"series":844,"enrichment":845},"01kx26t0a3tz8hpv509x3djyp8","the-bielski-brothers-the-true-story-of-three-men-who-defied-the-nazis-built-a-village-in-the-forest-and-saved-1200-jews-y9ga","The Bielski Brothers The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews","In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Instead of running or giving in to despair, these brothers -- Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski -- fought back, waging a guerrilla war of wits against the Nazis. By using their intimate knowledge of the dense forests surrounding the Belarusan towns of Novogrudek and Lida, the Bielskis evaded the Nazis and established a hidden base camp, then set about convincing other Jews to join their ranks. As more and more Jews arrived each day, a robust community began to emerge, a \"Jerusalem in the woods.\" After two and a half years in the woods, in July 1944, the Bielskis learned that the Germans, overrun by the Red Army, were retreating back toward Berlin. More than one thousand Bielski Jews emerged -- alive -- on that final, triumphant exit from the woods.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx26t0agg1ngvkhhv9yyt2km.jpg?v=9d4bff31dd","L6BWSR1401IB~mEhVuxa02$xShtR",2004,336,[836],{"id":837,"slug":838,"name":839},"01kqn921tw9va8xzsx6y3tqy1w","peter-duffy-evzb","Peter Duffy",[841,842,843],{"id":470,"name":471,"slug":472,"is_fiction":16},{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":17},{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":108,"complexity":7,"audience":62,"mood":846,"themes":847,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[110,224],[],[]]