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Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate

Gary J Byrne - ‎Center Street; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In this runaway #1 New York Times bestseller, former secret service officer Gary Byrne, who was posted directly outside President Clintons oval office, reveals what he observed of Hillary Clintons character and the culture...
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Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate

Gary J Byrne - ‎Center Street; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In this runaway #1 New York Times bestseller, former secret service officer Gary Byrne, who was posted directly outside President Clintons oval office, reveals what he observed of Hillary Clintons character and the culture...
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Wake Up, America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great--and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

Eric Bolling - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

America was built on nine distinct virtues which shaped the character of our nation and made it great. Grit, manliness, individualism, merit, profit and providence, dominion over our environment, thrift, and above all pride in our country -- these qualities define us, and are the reason...
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind...
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Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union

Stephen Budiansky - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous "cult of silence" has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese...
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Among the Headhunters: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival in the Burmese Jungle

Robert Lyman - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book

"Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin engine Curtiss-Wright C-46 plane suffered engine failure and crashed over the mountainous, remote border country. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, a Soviet...
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Every Little Step: My Story

Bobby Brown - Dey St.
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Every Little Step, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years, a magnetic...
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In Memory of Bread: A Memoir

Paul Graham - Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Format: Print book

When Paul Graham was suddenly diagnosed with a serious wheat allergy at the age of thirty-six, he was forced to say goodbye to traditional pasta, pizza, sandwiches, and more. Gone, too, were some of his favorite hobbies, including brewing beer with a buddy and gorging on his wife's homemade...
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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

Lesley M M Blume - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

The making of Ernest Hemingway's"The Sun Also Rises, " the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world In the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town s infamous...
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The Latter Days: A Memoir

Judith Freeman - Pantheon
Format: Print book

An arresting, lyrical memoir about the path the author took - sometimes unwittingly - out of her Mormon upbringing and through a thicket of profound difficulties to become a writer.At twenty-two, Judith Freeman was working in the Mormon church-owned department store in the Utah town where...
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life

James Lee Mcdonough - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A major new biography of one of America's most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented...
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How to Ruin Everything: Essays

Watsky - Plume
Format: Print book

"Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition." - Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American MusicalAre you a sensible, universally...
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Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence

George C Daughan - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

The untold story of the fight for the Hudson River Valley, control of which, both the Americans and the British firmly believed, would determine the outcome of the Revolutionary War.No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City, the Hudson River,...
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad

Del Quentin Wilber - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives -- does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good...
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

Laurence Leamer - William Morrow
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March...
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Before You Judge Me: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson's Last Days

Tavis Smiley - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks leading up to King of Pop Michael Jackson's deathMichael Jackson's final months were like the rest of his short and legendary life: filled with deep lows and soaring highs, a constant hunt for privacy, and the pressure and fame that made him socially...
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Sex Object: A Memoir

Jessica Valenti - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerNPR Best Book of 2016"Sharp and prescient ... The appeal of Valenti's memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it ... Sex Object is an antidote to the fun and flirty...
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In the Darkroom

Susan Faludi - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father...
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Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality

Jim Obergefell - William Morrow
Format: Print book

The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades - the legalization of same-sex marriage.In June 2015, the Supreme Court made...
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Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit

Tom Stanton - ‎Lyons Press; No Statement of Edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerForeword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winner in True CrimeDetroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group...
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The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

Natalie Livingstone - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Downton Abbey comes an immersive historical epic about a lavish English manor and a dynasty of rich and powerful women who ruled the estate over three centuries of misbehavior, scandal, intrigue, and passion. Five miles from Windsor Castle, home of the royal family, sits...
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I'm Just a Person

Tig Notaro - Ecco
Format: Print book

One of America's most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotionally raw account of her year of death, cancer, and epiphany.In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother...
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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943

Nigel Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

In the next installment of the "splendid memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times) , Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as the war raged in Africa and Italy. Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command,...
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

Arkady Ostrovsky - Viking
Format: Print book

WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR "Fast-paced and excellently written ... much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable." - New York Times "Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis." -The Wall Street Journal...
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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer

Arthur Lubow - Ecco Press
Format: Print book

The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographsDiane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer brings...
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A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations

Juliet Nicolson - Farrar
Format: Print book

A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable womenAll families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation...
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