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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

MICHAEL WOLFF · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story
of the most controversial presidency of our time

The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous -- and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West...

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Build a Drone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing, Constructing, and Flying Your Very Own Drone

Barry Davies · W W Norton
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Within the last couple of years, the usage of drones in both the public and private (military) sector has exploded. People are talking about drones, building drones, and something most people didn't know of a few years ago is now a household name.Build a Drone will not only teach you how to build...
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding · Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 478
Format: Print book

Move over, Bridget Jones's diary: She's back, and this time she's texting and tweeting. . . Fourteen years after landing Mark Darcy, Bridget's life has taken her places she never expected. But despite the new challenges of single parenting, online dating, wildly morphing...
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Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era

Lean'tin L. Bracks · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback

The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social,...
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It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand

Megan Devine · Sounds True
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

In 2009, on a beautiful sunny day, Megan Devine witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner Matt. "All my professional experience as a therapist felt meaningless," she writes. "Grief literature is loaded with well-intended advice that can actually worsen and extend...
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Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment

Carol S Steiker · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 390
Format: Print book

Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial...
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit

Chris Matthews · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.

With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look...
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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Storyof World War II's Most Dramatic Mission

Hampton Sides · Perfection Learning
Pages: 344
Format: Library Binding

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese...
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Janis: Her Life and Music

Holly George-Warren · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.

Janis Joplin's first transgressive...
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson · Crown; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that...
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The Dangerous Book for Boys

Conn Iggulden · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is.In this digital age there is still a place for knots,...
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Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life

Hoge Raad (Strafkamer) · Zondervan on Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

To regain control of your life, you've never needed Boundaries more than you do today in today's always-on, always-connected digital world. Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend wrote the New York Times bestselling book on Boundaries - the personal property lines that define who you are and who you are not,...

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My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor

Brendan McDonough · Hachette Books
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

A gripping first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict...
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Family Tradition - Three Generations of Hank Williams

Susan Masino · Hal Leonard Corporation
Format: Hardcover

(Book). Covering three generations of Hank Williams, Family Tradition is both unique and vast in scope. Beginning in the present day with Hank III who gave the author unprecedented access and time-traveling across the years, this examines just what kind of rebel mojo inspired this...
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Penny Whistle Sick-in-Bed Book: What to Do with Kids When They're Home for a Day, a Week, a Month, or More

Meredith Brokaw · Fireside
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback

A healing dose of fun for sick kids and the parents who love them! Whether your preschooler is home with the chicken pox, or your fifth-grader is laid up with a broken leg, The Penny Whistle SICK-IN-BED BOOK comes to the rescue with a delightful collection of absorbing activities to occupy...
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