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- Alicea Porterfield
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- Firstly, there is nothing in this world that I like better than a good book. Anyone that knows me knows this fact. Secondly, I love to share this love of reading and literature with everyone. Hence my book review blog and my Master's in Library Services. :-)
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- China Shakes The World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America by James KyngeEverything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power by Howard W. FrenchAsia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century by Richard McGregorThe Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro KishimiReinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior and Feel Great Again by Jeffrey E. YoungOur History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick EstesAll the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work by Hayley CampbellThe Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 3) by Louise PennyNightschool: The Weirn Books Collector's Edition, Vol. 1 (Nightschool: The Weirn Books Collector's Edition, 1) by Svetlana ChmakovaPrinter in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg: An Account of His Life and Times and of His Craft (Williamsburg Craft Series) by Colonial Williamsburg FoundationNightschool: The Weirn Books Collector's Edition, Vol. 2 (Nightschool: The Weirn Books Collector's Edition, 2) by Svetlana ChmakovaColonial Southern Bookshelf: Reading in the Eighteenth Century (Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. Lamar Memorial Lectures, No 21) by Richard Beale DavisThe Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 5) by Louise PennyA Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 7) (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 7) by Louise PennyThe Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 8) by Louise PennyHow the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 9) by Louise PennyThe Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules For Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child by Ron ClarkThe Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) by Gary J. BassAssociate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture, Vol. 1 (manga) (Volume 1) (Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture (manga), 1) by Mikage SawamuraCountdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America's Politics Forever by Chris WallaceSilent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History by Howell RainesAmerican Autopsy: One Medical Examiner's Decades-Long Fight for Racial Justice in a Broken Legal System by Michael M. Baden MDCher: Part One: The Memoir: Part One of a Two-Part Memoir from the Iconic Artist and Actor (The Cher Memoir, 1) by CherBroken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch WeissThe Private Life of Spies and The Exquisite Art of Getting Even: Stories of Espionage and Revenge by Alexander McCall SmithRevenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm GladwellPrime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970 (Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture) by Bonnie J. DowThe Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace by Lynn PovichOriginal Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of AmericanRacism by Eve L. EwingThe Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980 (A Wild Year in Miami's History) by Nicholas GriffinLula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books: A Southern Town's Battle over Banned Books by Kirsten MillerIf It’s You, I Might Try Falling in Love, Vol. 1 (Volume 1) (If It’s You, I Might Try Falling in Love, 1) by Maru KubotaMedicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools by Mary Annette PemberMinority Education and Caste: The American System in Cross-Cultural Perspective (A CARNEGIE COUNCIL ON CHILDREN MONOGRAPH) by John U. OgbuMurder Takes a Vacation: A Riveting Mystery of Deception, Art Theft, and Unexpected Romance on a Parisian Cruise―Perfect for Summer Reading by Laura LippmanThe CIA Book Club: The Gripping New History of the Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War: ‘Reads like a thriller’ – The Sun by Charlie EnglishThe Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by David BaronAre You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You by Meg JosephsonThe Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb by Garrett M. GraffThe Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic by Lindsey StewartStrange Pictures: An Eerie Journey through disturbing drawings – the debut novel from a mystery horror YouTube sensation by Uketsu
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