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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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A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland

SETH G JONES · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In this gripping narrative history, Seth G. Jones reveals the CIA's involvement in a landmark victory for democracy during the Cold War. In 1983, while Soviet- backed Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski worked to crush a budding opposition movement through martial law, the CIA launched...
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Upside Down: How the Left Turned Right into Wrong, Truth into Lies, and Good into Bad

Mark Davis · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Fossil fuels are bad. Illegal immigration is necessary for the economy. Free markets are arbitrary and cruel. Christians are intolerant. Men and women are exactly the same.The dogma preached by the far left has gone mainstream and the results are frightening: Most of what you hear these...
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The Impeachment Report: The House Intelligence Committee's Report on Its Investigation into Donald Trump and Ukraine

The House Intelligence Committee · Broadway Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

The official report from the House Intelligence Committee on Donald Trump's secret pressure campaign against Ukraine, featuring an exclusive introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and biographer Jon Meacham

For only the fourth time in American history, the House of Representatives...
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Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan

SHEILA TATE · Crown Forum
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Lady in Red is the long-awaited collection of behind-the-scenes stories and iconic images of one of the most influential First Lady in modern history -- Nancy Reagan. Lovingly compiled by long-time close confidante and aide, Sheila Tate, the book provides a rare and much-anticipated...
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Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World

Shannon Watts · HarperOne
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news broke of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. In one moment, she went from outraged to engaged and decided to do something about it. What started as a simple Facebook group to connect with other frustrated parents...

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American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan

Matt Farwell · Penguin Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan

"A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl's disastrous--and weirdly...
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A Warning

Anonymous · Twelve
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.

On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step...
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World Book

World Book, Inc. · World Book
Pages: 304

"Examines the United States presidency and its historical importance. Includes biographical information about every U.S. president and information and photos of every first lady. Discusses the duties, privileges, and the broad power of the president, and examines the people who have...
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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...
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The Caddos and Their Ancestors: Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana

Jeffrey S. Girard · LSU Press
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover

Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last Ice Age, through the formation of the Caddo culture in the tenth century BCE, to the early nineteenth century. Employing the results of recent...
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Davis · Haymarket Books, 2015.
Pages: 180
Format: Print book

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality,...
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The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin

Douglas Smith · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster

After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United...

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Hacked: The Inside Story of America's Struggle to Secure Cyberspace

Charlie Mitchell · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

The spectacular cyber attack on Sony Pictures and costly hacks to Sony, Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus, and databases containing sensitive data on millions of U.S. federal workers have shocked the nation. Despite a new urgency for the president, Congress, law enforcement, and corporate...
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

Steve Coll · Penguin Press
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover

Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since...
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