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The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Undermine America

Jim Sciutto · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of twenty-first century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged - often without the public's full knowledge - from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry.

The United States...

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After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom

Alice Marie Johnson · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Foreword by Kim Kardashian West
The true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking was commuted by President Donald Trump thanks to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West - an inspiring memoir of faith, hope, mercy, and gratitude.

How do you hold...

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Black Power Encyclopedia

Akinyele Umoja · Greenwood
Pages: 904
Format: Hardcover

An invaluable resource that documents the Black Power Movement by its cultural representation and promotion of self-determination and self-defense, and showcases the movement's influence on Black communities in America from 1965 to the mid-1970s.* Gives students and general readers...
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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House

Cliff Sims · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration.

After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.

He soon found himself pulled...

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A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State

James D. Wright · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A witty history of the state that's always in the news, for everything from alligator attacks to zany crimes.There's an old clip of Bugs Bunny sawing the entire state of Florida off the continent -- and every single time a news story springs up about some shenanigans in Florida,...
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Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s

NORMAN MAILER · Library of America
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover

Politics, war, sex, boxing, and the art of writing: an era's most controversial writer at his slashing and provocative bestThe electric and fearless essays of Norman Mailer were essential to the intellectual climate of 1960s America. Here, gathered into one volume for the first time...
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The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America

Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep research

Readers around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling...

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Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

MITCHELL JACKSON · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In a thrillingly alive, candid new work, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth, while examining the cultural forces - large and small - that led him and his family to this place.

With a poet's gifted...
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Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness

JENNIFER BERRY HAWES · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.

On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening...

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Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

Nadina LaSpina · New Village Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina La Spina's story -- from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence...
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War with Russia: From Putin and Ukraine To Trump and Russiagate

Stephen F. Cohen · Hot Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

An Alternative Narrative of Donald Trump's US and Putin's Russia, from America's Most Prominent Russian ScholarAmerica is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. The Soviet Union is gone, but the two nuclear...
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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 War

For 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...
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Create Your Own Employee Handbook: A Legal & Practical Guide for Employers

Lisa Guerin J.D. · NOLO
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback

Make -- or update -- your employee handbook today with this user-friendly guide! Every company should have an employee handbook to communicate with employees, manage workers effectively, ensure consistent treatment across the organization, and protect itself from lawsuits. But creating...
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Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger

Lilly Dancyger · Seal Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

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