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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 poignant--choice...
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Fever Swamp: A Journey Through the Strange Neverland of the 2016 Presidential Race

Richard North Patterson · Quercus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

By fall 2015, the rise of Donald Trump as the likely Republican nominee confirmed that, for better or worse, Americans had been transported to a strange new land populated by mysterious creatures, where the normal laws of the political universe no longer applied. Fascinated, amused, and appalled,...
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Where We Go from Here

BERNIE SANDERS · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new book, America's most popular political figure speaks about what he's been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the progressive movement and how we go forward as a nation.
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage

Gordon Corera · Pegasus Books
Pages: 431
Format: Print book

The previously untold -- and previously highly classified -- story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining...
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

JASON FAGONE · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving...
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After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom

Alice Marie Johnson · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Foreword by Kim Kardashian WestThe true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking was commuted by President Donald Trump thanks to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West - an inspiring memoir of faith, hope, mercy, and gratitude.How do you hold on to hope...
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The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

Anna Fifield · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.The Great Successor is an insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong...
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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House

Cliff Sims · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.He soon found himself pulled into the President's...
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House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

Craig Unger · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

House of Trump, House of Putin offers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped win Trump the White House. It is a chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made his first...
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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady

Susan Quinn · Penguin Press
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover

A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband...
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Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

Joseph Matthews Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits. The rules for claiming Social Security benefits are changing. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions--completely...
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I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck

James Baldwin · Vintage
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have...
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad

Del Quentin Wilber · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives -- does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good...
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy

David A Nichols · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 385
Format: Hardcover

Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch...
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Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world

Anand Giridharadas · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An insider's incisive and eye-opening account of the hypocrisies lurking behind the global elite's efforts to "change the world" through philanthropy and free enterprise without confronting their role in creating and perpetuating the very problems they purport to solve. Anand...
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