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

O'Reilly, Bill · 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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The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, on the Hunt for the Godfather of ISIS

Bakos, Nada · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

How a young woman from Montana joined the CIA, working her way up the ranks to the frontlines of the war on Islamic extremists.In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for intelligence work,...
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Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention

Freitas, Donna · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A powerful memoir about a young woman's toxic relationship with her mentor, an acclaimed professor, whose dark, stalking obsession altered her future forever.Donna Freitas has lived two lives. In one life, she is a well-published author and respected scholar who has traveled around...
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Inside Out: A Memoir

Moore, Demi · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight - or the headlines.Even...
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Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

Jim Mattis · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis - the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time - and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine....
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

Karen Abbott · Crown
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy"Gatsby-era noir at its best."...
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The Yellow House

Broom, Sarah M. · Grove Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant -- the postwar optimism seemed assured....
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In the Country of Women: A Memoir

Straight, Susan · Catapult
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

To understand my daughters and their sisterhood, you have to know the women, and sisters, who came before. In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert...
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Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls

Carrie Goldberg · Plume
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists - one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off - and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution. "We are all a moment...
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Warrior's Creed: A Life of Preparing for and Facing the Impossible

Sparks, Roger · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of how a young boy's upbringing with outlaw culture and charismatic role models forged him into an elite Marine and a decorated Pararescueman."Absence of self is my sword" comprises the final line in "The Warrior's Creed," a 14th century poem...
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