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Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs

David Philipps · ‎Crown
Format: Hardcover

By official accounts, the Navy SEALs of Alpha platoon returned as heroes after their 2017 deployment to Mosul, following a vicious, bloody, and successful campaign to drive ISIS from the city. But within the platoon a different war raged. Even as Alpha's chief, Eddie Gallagher, was being...
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Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

Kate Johnson · Shambhala
Format: Paperback

Grounded in the Buddha's teachings on spiritual friendship, Radical Friendship shares seven strategies to help us embody our deepest values in all of our relationships. Drawing on her experiences as a leading meditation teacher, as well as personal stories of growing up multiracial...
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Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Rafia Zakaria · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights.Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria...
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

EyalPress · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States' most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view...
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First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament

Terry M. Wildman · ‎IVP
Format: Hardcover

"The Great Spirit loves this world of human beings so deeply he gave us his Son -- the only Son who fully represents him. All who trust in him and his way will not come to a bad end, but will have the life of the world to come that never fades -- full of beauty and harmony. Creator...
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Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump

Spencer Ackerman · Viking
Format: Hardcover

For an entire generation, at home and abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, it has pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance, as well as detaining people indefinitely and torturing...
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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden

Peter L. Bergen · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen provides the first reevaluation of the man responsible for precipitating America's long wars with al-Qaeda and its descendants, capturing bin Laden in all the dimensions of his life: as a family man, as a zealot, as a battlefield...
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Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

Savala Nolan Trepczynski · Simon & Schuster; Not for Online edition
Format: Hardcover

Savala Nolan Trepczynski knows what it means to live in the in-between. Descended from a Black and Mexican father and a white mother, Trepczynski's mixed-race identity is obvious, for better and worse. At her mother's encouragement, she began her first diet at the age of three and has been...
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When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough: A Shooting Survivor's Journey into the Realities of Gun Violence

Taylor S. Schumann · ‎IVP
Format: Hardcover

Taylor Schumann never thought she'd be a victim of gun violence. But one spring day a man with a shotgun walked into her workplace and opened fire on her. While she survived, she was left with permanent wounds, both visible and invisible. In When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough,...
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The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power

John Michael Greer · ‎Inner Traditions
Format: Paperback

Explores the role of magic and the occult in the rise of the ultra-conservative right* Details the magical war that took place behind the scenes of the 2016 election * Examines in detail the failed magical actions of Trump's opponents, with insights on political magic from Dion Fortune's...
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