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Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir

Jean Guerrero · One World
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory - between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death ¿Papi, dónde estás? Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood,...
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing

GAIL LUKASIK · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover

White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's "passing," Gail's struggle with the shame of her mother's choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow...
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Guerrilla Kindness and Other Acts of Creative Resistance: Making A Better World Through Craftivism

SAYRAPHIM LOTHIAN · Mango
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

#1 Amazon New Release ? Resistance CraftsCraftivism can be your voice of resistence: Craftivism is a non-threatening form of activism that gives people a voice when they feel voiceless and power where they feel powerless. It is an international movement for our time and noted Craftivism...
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Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration?and How to Achieve Real Reform

John F Pfaff · Basic Books
Pages: 311
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reformIn the 1970s, the United States had an incarceration rate comparable to those of other liberal democracies-and that rate had held steady for over...
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China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine

Rosemary Gibson · Prometheus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it--and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for improving the current system of drug supply and manufacturing.Several decades ago, penicillin,...
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Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

TO BE CONFIRMED GALLERY. · Gallery Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides a jaw-dropping look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration.Few have been a member of Donald Trump's inner orbit longer than...
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Pence: The Path to Power

ANDREA NEAL · Red Lightning Books
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

What does it take to become the second-in-command of one of the most powerful countries in the world? Mike Pence's rise to the vice presidency of the United States wasn't always easy. To some, he is the personification of American conservative values, but to others, his ideals are the epitome...
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Liars, Leakers and Liberals

JEANINE PIRRO · Center Street
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

As host of her own show on Fox for many years, Judge Jeanine Pirro has seen firsthand how narratives take form, whether they are based in truth or not. In her explosive new book, she will write about some of the most egregious lies she's seen, and take on the Liars, Leakers, and Liberals.
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The Briefing

SEAN SPICER · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Sean Spicer takes readers behind the scenes of his turbulent tenure as President Trump's press secretary, shedding new light on the headline-grabbing controversies of the Trump administration's first year.
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The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year

Amy Siskind · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List."In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder...
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