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Domestic Darkness: An Insider's Account of the January 6th Insurrection, and the Future of Right-Wing Extremism

Julie Farnam - Ig Publishing
Format: Hardcover

After being named Assistant Director of Intelligence for the Capitol Police just days before the 2020 election, Julie Farnam warned its leadership of the upcoming insurrection, sharing that "Congress itself is the target on the 6th." Tragically, her warnings were ignored.Domestic...
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Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design

BESS WILLIAMSON - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

A history of design that is often overlooked -- until we need itHave you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited from...
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White man's game : saving animals, rebuilding Eden, and other myths of conservation in Africa

Stephanie Hanes - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

A probing examination of Western conservation efforts in Africa, where our feel-good stories belie a troubling realityThe stunningly beautiful Gorongosa National Park, once the crown jewel of Mozambique, was nearly destroyed by decades of civil war. It looked like a perfect place for Western...
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A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

LIsa Pease - Feral House
Format: Hardcover

In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was deliberately altered and, in some instances, destroyed;...
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Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

Leslie Brody - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

Harriet the Spy, first published in 1964, has mesmerized generations of readers and launched a million diarists. Its beloved antiheroine, Harriet, is erratic, unsentimental, and endearing-very much like the woman who created her, Louise Fitzhugh. Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in segregated...
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What You Need to Know About Voting--and Why

Kim Wehle - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

A step-by-step guide to every American's most fundamental right and civic duty -- just in time for the 2020 presidential election.Nothing is more important to the health of a democracy than the right to vote. Yet less than half of eligible voters routinely show up to the polls. Part...
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The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (Shortest History Series)

Michael Scott-Baumann - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. The ongoing struggle between Israel and Palestine is one of the most...
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Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

Bethany Allen - Harper
Format: Hardcover

One of the most acclaimed journalists on contemporary China lays bare the country's two decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy - capitalism - to expand...
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

Tania Branigan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An indelible exploration of the invisible scar that runs through the heart of Chinese society and the souls of its citizens."It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism...
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Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy

Mike German - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

A former FBI undercover agent and whistleblower gives us a riveting and troubling account of the contemporary FBI - essential reading for our times Impressively researched and eloquently argued, former special agent Mike German's Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide tells the story of the transformation...
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