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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands

Dan Jones · Viking
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace...
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

Rachel Maddow · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy - Winner Take All Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe - from Oklahoma...
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

Marty Makary M.D. · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, timely, urgent critique of America's broken health care system.

One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business...

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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Eric Foner · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation.

The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three...

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Permanent Record

Arthur King · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old...

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Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House

Tom LoBianco · Dey Street Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A revealing, in-depth biography of Mike Pence, the most secretive and ingratiating vice president in modern history, from a reporter with remarkable access No journalist has covered Mike Pence for as long or as closely as Tom LoBianco. The seasoned political reporter was at the first campaign...
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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal

Renia Spiegel · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English


Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start...

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The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America

Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep researchReaders around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's...
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See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics

Caitlin Moscatello · Dutton
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning journalist covering gender and politics comes an inside look at the female candidates fighting back and winning elections in the crucial 2018 midterms.

After November 8, 2016, first came the sadness; then came the rage, the activism, and the protests; and,...
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Radicals, Resistance, and Revenge: The Left's Plot to Remake America

Jeanine Pirro · Center Street
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Picking up where her #1 New York Times bestseller, Liars, Leakers and Liberals, left off, Judge Jeanine Pirro exposes the latest chapter in the unfolding liberal attack on our most basic values.
For two long years, Donald Trump's presidency has been under siege by the Left...
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Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II

John Wukovits · Da Capo Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peace

When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown...
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