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The Fighters

C. J. Chivers · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"A classic of war reporting...The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not." - The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers' unvarnished account of modern combat, told through the eyes...
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As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan · Harvard University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

People are living longer, creating an unexpected boom in the elderly population. Longevity is increasing not only in wealthy countries but in developing nations as well. In response, many policy makers and scholars are preparing for a global crisis of aging. But for too long, Western experts...
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The Death of Truth

MICHIKO KAKUTANI · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason. Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects...
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Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries

Ander Monson · Graywolf Press
Format: Audiobook

An exuberant, expansive cataloging of the intimate physical relationship between a reader and a bookA way to leave a trace of us, who we were or wanted to be, what we read and could imagine, what we did and what we left for you. Readers of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips...
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Social Security: The Inside Story, 2018 Silver Anniversary Edition

Andy Landis · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback

Social Security and Medicare are the bedrock of your future financial security. You paid for them - now make them work for you, starting today! SOCIAL SECURITY: THE INSIDE STORY is detailed. Comprehensive. Easy to read. It's been hailed since 1993 as "the best" resource on Social...
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There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond

Meline Toumani · Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a love thine enemy experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use-and abuse-our personal historiesMeline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian community in New Jersey where Turkish restaurants were shunned and products made...
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World

CONDE NAST & THE WOMEN'S MARCH. · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD * SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH * AMERICA FERRARA * ROXANE GAY * ILANA GLAZER * ASHLEY JUDD * VALARIE KAUR * CINDI LEIVE * DAVID REMNICK * JILL SOLOWAY * YARA SHAHIDI * JIA TOLENTINO * CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS * ELAINE WELTEROTH * JOSE ANTONIO...
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

Andrew Delbanco · Penguin Press
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil WarFor decades after its founding, America was really two nations--one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked...
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What Happened

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 494
Format: Hardcover

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals...
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Full Disclosure

Stormy Daniels · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.How did Stormy...
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The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism

STEVE KORNACKI · Ecco
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s - one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscapeIn The Red and the Blue, cable news star and acclaimed journalist Steve Kornacki follows the twin paths of Bill Clinton and Newt...
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From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia

MICHAEL MCFAUL · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the presentIn 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely...
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Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation

KEN STARR · Sentinel
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of one of the most divisive periods in American history.You could fill a library with books about the scandals of the Clinton administration, which...
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Dangerous

Milo Yiannopoulos · Dangerous Books
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover

The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere.
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