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  Hercule Poirot: Book 17

  Death on the Nile

  by Agatha Christie

  Young, beautiful, and rich, Linnet Doyle (used to be Ridgeway) sparks the interest of Detective Hercule Poirot when she and her new husband Simon Doyle take a cruise on the same ship as he, and he senses trouble in paradise. Reprint.
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  Black Dogs

  by Ian McEwan

  One of today's most celebrated novelists returns with a novel about family and political loyalties at the end of the Cold War. Writing a memoir of his parents-in-law, Jeremy relates the strange events that brought June and Bernard Tremaine together and set them apart. McEwan is the author of The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers.
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  Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History

  by Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle

  The History of SDS as You’ve Never Seen It Before   In 1962 at a United Auto Workers’ camp in Michigan, Students for a Democratic Society held its historic convention and prepared the famous Port Huron Statement, drafted by Tom Hayden. This statement, criticizing the U.S. government’s failure to pursue international peace or address domestic inequality, became the organization’s manifesto. Its last convention was... (more)
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  When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941

  by Robert Cohen

  The Depression era saw the first mass student movement in American history. The crusade, led in large part by young Communists, was both an anti-war campaign and a movement championing a broader and more egalitarian vision of the welfare state than that of the New Dealers. The movement arose from a massive political awakening on campus, caused by the economic crisis of the 1930s, the escalating international... (more)
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  The Faces of Right Wing Extremism

  by Kathy Marks

  The book contains lists of organizations in America, with names and structural information. A must read for law-enforcement personnel, and for those interested in knowing about these types of organizations.
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  Animal Farm / 1984

  by George Orwell

  ANIMAL FARM George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the... (more)
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  Eugene V. Debs; The Making of an American Radical

  by Ray Ginger

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  In the Storm

  by Sholem Aleichem

  Text: English, Yiddish (translation)
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  The Book of Daniel

  by E. L. Doctorow

  In 1967, Daniel, the son of two convicted spys executed by their own country, ponders his life, his sister's radicalism, his appreciation for his wife and son, and the hypocrisy of the moralistic ideals upon which this country was based. Reprint.
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  The Communist Manifesto (Norton Critical Editions)

  by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Frederic L. Bender

  This Norton Critical Edition offers a complete historical and philosophical introduction to Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party. It will assist students making their first approach to Marx's thought as well as those ready to study the Manifesto in more depth. For beginning students, this edition provides a carefully annotated text of the Manifesto and two introductory sections by Frederic Bender, a... (more)
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  Out of Time: The Vexed Life of Georg Tintner

  by Tanya Buchdahl Tintner

  Conductor and composer Georg Tintner lived and breathed music. Tintner is best known to music lovers for his stunning interpretations of Bruckner's symphonies, recorded by Naxos in the 1990s. His long and eventful career began at the age of eight, when he was the first Jew to join the Vienna Boys Choir. In this most musical of cities, Tintner was part of the same audience as Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern, and... (more)
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  Case for the Conservative

  by James S Munn

  Case for the Conservative’s author, Jim Munn, had many significant life experiences that prepared him to write this book. Among these experiences were growing up in California during the Great Depression, flying a B-17 over Germany during WWII, getting shot down and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp for 18 months, serving in Korea as an intelligence officer, traveling the U.S. and Europe during the 1950’s,... (more)
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  Servants' Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance

  by Margaret Powell

  Margaret Powell's Below Stairs, a servant's firsthand account of life in the great houses of England, became a sensation among readers revelling in the luxury and subtle class warfare of Masterpiece Theatre's hit television series Downton Abbey. In Servants' Hall, another true slice of life from a time when armies of servants lived below stairs simply to support the lives of those above, Powell tells the true... (more)