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June

Porchlight Book Company's best-selling nonfiction books cover various topics, including current events, memoirs, and personal development. These are the top sellers for this month.

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Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America

By Luis A Miranda

Essential reading from an expert voice: Luis A. Miranda Jr. 's personal and political memoir reveals a deep understanding of Latino culture and how to build community to change our world for the better. A veteran of New York and national politics, Luis Miranda embodies the relentless spirit of progress of American immigrants.

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I Have Your Back: How an American Soldier Became an International Hero

By Tom Sileo

The story of U. S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, who became an international hero for his courage and selflessness. Ever since he was a young boy growing up on the streets of Staten Island, New York, Michael Ollis wanted to be a soldier. Inspired by his father, who fought in Vietnam, Mike's deep desire to serve was cemented on the day his beloved city was attacked.

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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President

By Edward F O'Keefe

"A spirited and poignant family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives"--

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The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free

By Pete Hegseth

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Real men fought for our freedoms. It's time we fought for theirs. Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness.

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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

By Noliwe Rooks

An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America's towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American achievement.

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Making Room: Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging, and a Safe Place for LGBTQ Youth

By Carl Siciliano

From a pioneering advocate for LGBTQ youth, a gripping, impassioned account of how an unhoused queer youth's murder compelled him to create the nation's largest housing program for homeless LGBTQ teens. "A gut-wrenchingly poignant real-life saga. . . an unputdownable account of what it looks like when compassion is harnessed to funding and policy.

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How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Be Civil Without the State

By C L Skach

An expert on the writing of constitutions argues that the path to a thriving society begins with forgetting about them: "Not James Madison but Bob Dylan or Annie Lennox should be our guide" (Mark Tushnet). In 2009, constitutional scholar C. L. Skach went to Iraq to help revise the constitution. She survived a missile barrage in the Green Zone--an event that proved a breaking point in her thinking about constitutions.