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Counterblasts eBook Series

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  • Unhitched

    The Trial of Christopher Hitchens

    by Richard Seymour ...
    Series series Counterblasts
    Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative "Marxist," an advocate of America's invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his life, he played the role of universal gadfly, whose commitment to the truth transcended the party line ... Read more

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  • Free Days With George

    Learning Life's Little Lessons from One Very Big Dog

    by Colin Campbell ...
    A heartwarming, true story about George, a rescue dog who helps his owner rediscover love and happiness. Marley & Me meets Tuesdays with Morrie and The Art of Racing in the Rain--get your tissues ready, animal lovers!After Colin Campbell went on a short business trip abroad, he returned home to discover his wife of many years had moved out. No explanations. No second chances. She was gone and wasn ... Read more

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  • House of Horrors

    The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler

    by Sberna ...
    The perverse world of a sexual sadist who terrorized women on Cleveland’s East SideTo his neighbors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Sowell was a quiet and helpful former Marine who played chess and hosted summer barbeques in his front yard. But there was a dark side to Sowell—and a horrific secret inside his house. In mid-2007, Crystal Dozier, 38, made plans to visit Sowell. She was ... Read more

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  • Shouting Won't Help

    Why I—and 50 Million Other Americans—Can't Hear You

    by Katherine Bouton ...
    For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn't hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she was "the kind of person who might have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century."Audiologists ... Read more

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  • The World According to Breslin

    by Jimmy Breslin ...
    Classic columns from the legendary New York journalist—"a master of the tough-talking, thoroughly researched, contentious, street-wise vignette" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).Although his career spans decades, the seven years that Jimmy Breslin spent at the New York Daily News sparked some of his finest work. When New York City tumbled into economic and social chaos at the end of the 1970s, Breslin ... Read more

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  • Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading

    Finding and Losing Myself in Books

    by Maureen Corrigan ...
    In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a fellow bookworm, of course), to the ordeal of adopting a baby overseas, always with a book at her side. ... Read more

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  • So Greek: Confessions of a Conservative Leftie

    by Niki Savva ...
    From one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery comes a rare account of life as a political insider. Born in a small village in Cyprus, Niki Savva spent her childhood in Melbournes working-class suburbs ­ frontiers where locals were suspicious of olive oil, and Greek kids spoke Gringlish to their parents. Only a few decades later, despite all the challenges of being a ... Read more

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  • The House is Full of Yogis

    by Will Hodgkinson ...
    A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life parentsNeville and Liz Hodgkinson bought into the Thatcherite dream of home ownership, aspiration and advancement. The first children of their working class parents to go to university and have professional careers, they lived in a semi-detached house in ... Read more

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  • The 30-Second Commute

    by Stephanie Dickison ...
    This book is a comic narrative about the real life of a full–time writer. Stephanie Dickison had been successfully publishing features and articles for over a decade while working a full–time job but in December 2005 she left the secure world of a &dlquo;real job&drquo; to tackle completing a manuscript that was close to five years old and to take on freelance writing full time. Drawing on her ... Read more

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  • A Voice in the Box

    My Life in Radio

    by Bob Edwards ...
    The iconic radio personality looks back on his life and career, from his first job at a smalltown Indiana station to his time at NPR and Sirius XM Radio.The host of The Bob Edwards Show and Bob Edwards Weekend on Sirius XM Radio, Bob Edwards became the first radio personality with a large national audience to take his chances in the new field of satellite radio. The programs' mix of long-form ... Read more

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  • Everyone Leaves Behind a Name: True Stories

    by Michael Brick ...
    Michael Brick is one of those writers who never leaves your side, and what pleasurable company he provides.In reading this collection of his newspaper and magazine stories from Brooklyn, Houston, and beyond, picture the man. Tall, and lanky, and so proud to be Texan, wearing a brown vest and cowboy boots, his narrow reporter's notebook in his back pocket slapping at his flat ass, as if urging him ... Read more

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  • Horace Greeley and the Politics of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Mitchell Snay ...
    Series series American Profiles
    Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was a major figure in nineteenth century American history. As a newspaper editor, politician, and reformer, Greeley was involved with the major events and trends of the era. He was the influential editor of the New York Tribune from 1841 until his death and was instrumental in the rise of the Whig and Republican parties.Snay's biography places Greeley in his historical ... Read more

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