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Falter
Falter

Bill McKibben

This program includes a foreword read by the author.Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature...
 
 
Charged
Charged

Emily Bazelon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out."An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that speaks...
 
 
Commander in Cheat
Commander in Cheat

Rick Reilly

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming." —-The New Yorker"Stunning — and damning." —-Golf Digest"Every one of Trump's most disgusting qualities surfaces in golf."...
 
 
Finding My Voice
Finding My Voice

Valerie Jarrett

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Valerie has been one of Barack and my closest confidantes for decades... the world would feel a lot better if there were more people like Valerie blazing the trail for the rest of us."—Michelle Obama"The ultimate Obama insider" (The New York Times) and longest-serving...
 
 
The Matriarch
The Matriarch

Susan Page

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." — The AtlanticA vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political...
 
 
Love Your Enemies
Love Your Enemies

Arthur C. Brooks

Now a National Bestseller.To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an "outrage industrial complex" that prospers by setting American against American.Meanwhile,...
 
 
Proof of Collusion
Proof of Collusion

Seth Abramson

For the first time, the full, explosive record of the unthinkable: how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert election assistance.Looking back at this moment in history, historians will ask if Americans knew they were...
 
 
Amity and Prosperity
Amity and Prosperity

Eliza Griswold

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionIn Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely...
 
 
Lead from the Outside
Lead from the Outside

Stacey Abrams

*This program was previously published as Minority Leader. This updated edition includes a new preface written and read by Stacey Abrams.*"Abrams's own grit, coupled with her descriptions of much stumbling and self-doubt, will make [Lead from the Outside] touch you in a way few books by politicians...