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The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight

Adrian Levy · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads....
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Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder

Amy Knight · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Ever since Vladamir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin's reign that even...
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Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom

Allen West · Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

The inspiring life and uncensored views of a veteran, patriot, former Congressman, conservative icon, and warrior for personal liberty… Over the course of the past few decades, Allen West has had many titles bestowed on him, among them Lt. Colonel, U.S. Representative, “Dad,”...
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The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security

Ann Hagedorn · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The urgent truth about the privatization of America's national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading - and why we should be concerned.Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs) ; there were only...
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War

Monte Reel · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disasterOn May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between...
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iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age

Bill Gertz · Threshold Editions
Pages: 364
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author and veteran Washington Times columnist explains how the United States can beat China, Russia, Iran, and ISIS in the coming information-technology wars.America is at war, but most of its citizens don't know it. Covert information warfare is being waged by world...
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Untitled on HRC

Jonathan Allen · Crown
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate,...
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Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything

Thomas Lake · Melcher Media
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Unprecedented's second printing features a new cover for the inauguration, with an exclusive portrait of the president-elect.Packed with exclusive photojournalism and new revelations straight from the front lines, Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything chronicles the most hard-...
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Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.

Marion Barry Jr. · Strebor Books
Format: Hardcover

Four-time mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry, Jr. tells his shocking and courageous life story, beginning in the cotton fields in Mississippi to the executive offices of one of the most powerful cities in the world.Known nationally as the disgraced mayor caught on camera smoking crack...
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

ALISSA QUART · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies...
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No Justice: One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart

ROBBIE TOLAN · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

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Let Me Be Clear: Barack Obama's War on Millennials, and One Woman's Case for Hope

Katie Kieffer · Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

A SEARING INDICTMENT OF THE MASTER OF CHARM, BARACK OBAMA, FOR HIS HISTORIC WAR ON AMERICAN YOUTH  Let me be clear. It was his come-hither call, his winsome whistle, his lingual lure. Barack Obama employed this phrase to sell his lies as maxims and his ineptitude as expertise. From JFK to Bill...
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Choosing the Hero: My Improbable Journey and the Rise of Africa's First Woman President

K Riva Levinson · Kiwai Media
Pages: 191
Format: Print book

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Women's Studies. Politics. African Studies. The rise of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to become the president of Liberia and the first woman elected to lead an African nation is one of the most inspiring stories of our time. But Sirleaf could not have done it alone....
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered

Lynne Cheney · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 564
Format: Hardcover

A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world. Among the Founding Fathers, Madison...
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Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

Howard French · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978,...
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