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Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar

Steve Murphy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers. But their biggest challenge was the hunt...
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The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It

Malcolm Nance · Hachette Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When former FBI Director Robert Mueller III was assigned to the Special Counsel investigation looking into the possibility of Russian interference in the 2016 US election, many Americans felt relieved. But when the report was delivered in April 2019, it was clear that the case was far from...
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With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace

Nikki R. Haley · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal book about the most significant events of our time, written by the former United States Ambassador to the United NationsNikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner ("With all due respect, I don't get confused") , her sensitive...
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They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy

Lawrence Lessig · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

With insight and urgency, Harvard law professor and author of the bestselling Republic, Lost Lawrence Lessig argues that our government does not represent us and shows that reform is both essential and possible. America's democracy is in crisis. Along many dimensions, a single flaw...
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This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

David J. Silverman · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief)...
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Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us

Trump Jr, Donald · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr. will expose all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to fake accusations of "hate speech." No topic is spared from political correctness. This is the book...
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We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump

Leah Greenberg · Atria/One Signal Publishers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "The breakout star of the new activists." - The Economist "If Democrats are able to retake the House in 2018, it will be a victory built from Greenberg and Levin's blueprint." - Politico "One of the biggest successes so far this year...Indivisible...
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth

Iain MacGregor · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War.East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early...
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Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us

Foroohar, Rana · Currency
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A penetrating indictment of how today's largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds - from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst "Don't be evil" was enshrined as Google's corporate mantra back in its early...
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Represent: The Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World

June Diane Raphael · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

"Over the last few years we've seen a remarkable surge of women running for office, and even better, winning. Running takes courage, passion, and commitment, but it also takes books like this. June and Kate have created a wonderful resource for women as they think about taking...
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