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Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.. She describes...
 
 
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Rebecca Nagle - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century...
 
 
On Freedom

Timothy Snyder - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival - by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny. "Much like life itself, freedom needs to be defined and redefined....
 
 
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law

Neil Gorsuch - Harper
Format: Hardcover

America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into our lives that it's worth asking: In our reverence for law, have we gone too far?Over just the last few decades, laws in this nation have exploded in number; they are increasingly...
 
 
Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy

Brian Tyler Cohen - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen takes a step back from the day-to-day news cycle to explain how American politics has turned into such a dumpster fire - and what Democrats need to do to get us out of it.In Shameless,...
 
 
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War - a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. One of Time's Most Anticipated Books...
 
 
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Eugene Rogan - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning scholar's account of an ancient city's descent into unprecedented communal violence - an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East. On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus....
 
 
The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free

Pete Hegseth - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERReal men fought for our freedoms. It's time we fought for theirs.Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color...