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Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro

Thomas Maier · Skyhorse
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros.Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever - with CIA agents,...
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Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America

Jared Cohen · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office without being elected to it. It demonstrates how the character of the man in that powerful seat affects the nation and world.Eight...
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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

Susan Page · Twelve
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff}...
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The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

Miles McPherson · Howard Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Miles McPherson, founder of The Rock Church in San Diego, speaks out about the pervasive racial divisions in today's culture and argues that we must learn to see people not by the color of their skin, but as God sees them - humans created in the image of God.Miles McPherson has had enough...
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Stephanie Land · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."While the gap between upper middle-class...
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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...
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So Here's the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut

Alyssa Mastromonaco · Twelve
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? comes a fun, frank book of reflections, essays, and interviews on topics important to young women, ranging from politics and career to motherhood, sisterhood, and making and sustaining relationships of all kinds...
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The Good Immigrant: 27 Writers Reflect on America

Nikesh Shukla · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America.From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions...
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