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Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don t care about books the way they did back in Iran, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels \"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt\", and \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\", among others she invites us to join her as citizens of her Republic of Imagination, a countrywhere the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viking Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42969562972326,"sku":"9780670026067","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/the-republic-of-imagination-america-in-three-books-hb-9780670026067-28454752714930.jpg?v=1656011562"},{"product_id":"another-bloody-love-letter","title":"Another Bloody Love Letter","description":"\u003cp\u003eCritically acclaimed writer and award-winning foreign correspondent, Anthony Loyd is also an ex-heroin addict. 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And yet, six years later, she has reemerged as an even more powerful and influential figure, a formidable stateswoman and the presumed front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, marking one of the great political comebacks in history. \nThe story of Hillary's phoenixlike rise is at the heart of \"HRC, \" a riveting political biography that journeys into the heart of \"Hillaryland\" to discover a brilliant strategist at work. Masterfully unfolded by \"Politico'\"s\"\"Jonathan Allen and \"The Hill\"'s Amie Parnes from more than two hundred top-access interviews with Hillary's intimates, colleagues, supporters, and enemies, \"HRC\" portrays a seasoned operator who negotiates political and diplomatic worlds with equal savvy. Loathed by the Obama team in the wake of the primary, Hillary worked to become the president's greatest ally, their fates intertwined in the work of reestablishing America on the world stage. \"HRC\" puts readers in the room with Hillary during the most intense and pivotal moments of this era, as she mulls the president-elect's offer to join the administration, pulls the strings to build a coalition for his war against Libya, and scrambles to deal with the fallout from the terrible events in Benghazi--all while keeping one eye focused on 2016. \nHRC\" offers a rare look inside the merciless Clinton political machine, as Bill Clinton handled the messy business of avenging Hillary's primary loss while she tried to remain above the partisan fray. Exploring her friendships and alliances with Robert Gates, David Petraeus, Leon Panetta, Joe Biden, and the president himself, Allen and Parnes show how Hillary fundamentally transformed the State Department through the force of her celebrity and her unparalleled knowledge of how power works in Washington. 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Illegitimate, fatherless, her mother in and out of psychiatric hospitals; it would have been easy for anyone to despair and give up. Yet Gwen had hope. Despite it all, she was a good student, fighting hard for a scholarship and a brighter future. Then she met Colin. Someone to love who would love her back. But that short-lived love wasn't the sanctuary Gwen was looking for. It was the start of a living hell. Rape was just the beginning. By sixteen she was pregnant, her ongoing education abandoned. Society did not tolerate single mothers; prejudice and discrimination followed her everywhere. In an effort to save her son, Jason, from the illegitimacy and deprivation she'd grown up with, Gwen chose to marry Colin - and too quickly the nightmare of physical abuse, poverty and homelessness seemed inescapable. 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