NONFICTION
Released: July 9, 2012
"A genuinely important book that casts the problem of sex trafficking in America into stunning, heartbreaking relief."
A California attorney and youth advocate's rivetingly raw account of the years she spent as a runaway, juvenile delinquent and prostitute.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 9, 2012
"Occasionally thick with statistics and explication, but the author's personal voice is compelling and his thesis is most disturbing. Recommended reading for anyone who still thinks we live in a post-racial America."
Colby (
The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts, 2008) turns his attention to one of the most vexing and violent topics in American social history.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 10, 2012
"An exquisite--and often exquisitely depressing--patchwork of joy and pain."
Captivating samplings of one doctor's tour of duty inside the country's oldest and perhaps most illustrious public hospital.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 10, 2012
"Scarifying stuff, without any mawkishness or dumb machismo--not quite on the level of Jarhead, but absolutely worth reading."
"The first thing you should know about me is that I'm Crazy." So begins this affecting tale of a modern war and its home-front consequences.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 10, 2012
"Contrasting cultural values shine in this winning contemporary immigrant account of assimilation versus individuation."
In this engaging immigrant memoir, first-time author Marafioti, née Kopylenko, describes with humor and introspection how the self-described "Split Nationality Disorder" she experienced growing up only magnified upon her family's emigration from the former Soviet Union to Los Angeles when she was 15.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 17, 2012
"An invigorating reality check for anyone thinking about starting a business in a developing country. "
