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Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth

Michael Savage - Center St
Format: Hardcover

In his trademark in-your-face style, bestselling author and top conservative talk-show host, Michael Savage has a lot to say about the state of the country in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR. According to Michael Savage, OUR NATION IS IN REAL TROUBLE and the seeds of a second conflagration have...
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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why

Sady Doyle - Melville House
Format: Book

She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From...
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House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

Craig Unger - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

House of Trump, House of Putin offers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped win Trump the White House. It is a chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made...
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

JASON FAGONE - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving...
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The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea

Paul Ryan - Grand Central Pub
Format: Hardcover

From the intellectual leader of the Republican party, an unvarnished look into the state of the conservative movement today and a clear plan for what needs to be done to save the American Idea.THE WAY FORWARD challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond,...
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

ANONYMOUS. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American...
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Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

ELI SASLOW - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mindDerek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand...
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See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad

Philip Haney - WND Books
Format: Print book

One day after a prominent U. S. Muslim leader reacted to the November 2015 Paris attacks with a declaration that the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has nothing to do with Islam, President Obama made the same assertion. Who exactly is the enemy we face, not only in the Middle East but also...
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Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War

James Risen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book

War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars,...
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild - New Press
Format: Print book

2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTIONA 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election"This is a smart,...
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power

Jimmy Carter - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths....
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Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

Richard B Cheney - Threshold Editions, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book

A new book by former Vice President and #1 New York Times bestselling author Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney.
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Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback

Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

No one understands the Make America Great Again effort with more insight and more experience than former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Gingrich helped President Ronald Reagan "Make America Great Again" in 1980. He authored the Contract with America and spearheaded the 1994...
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We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

JOSE ANDRES - Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Hardcover

The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more Chef Jos Andrs arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed and for most people there...
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

Kurt Andersen - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe . . . to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest...
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Al Franken - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times p.p1 {margin:...
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History

MITCH LANDRIEU - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate...
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Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir

Jean Guerrero - One World
Format: Hardcover

A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory - between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death Papi, dnde ests Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood, her father,...
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Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: Voices from Tunis to Damascus

Layla Al-Zubaidi - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

An English PEN Award–winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab Spring As revolution swept through the Arab world in spring of 2011, much of the writing that reached the West came via analysts and academics, experts and expats. We heard about...
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

Thomas E Ricks - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill...
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After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction

Renata Adler - New York Review Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. As a staff writer at The New Yorker. Adler reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; the wars in Biafra, and the Middle East; the Nixon impeachment inquiry;...
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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
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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This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

Elizabeth Warren - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestsellerThe fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save itSenator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's...
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Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government

Mike Lee - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover

Senator Mike Lee tells the story of the Founders whose warnings about the dangers of an all-powerful federal government helped shape our Constitution--but are being ignored today. Today, most Americans are familiar only with the "big names" associated with the Founding - Washington,...
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The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin's Spies Are Winning Control of America and Dismantling the West

Malcolm Nance - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Retired Intelligence officer and New York Times bestselling author of The Plot to Hack America, Malcolm Nance, offers a provocative, comprehensive analysis of the Russian Federation's master plan to destroy democracy, the methodologies used in the 2016 election, what will...
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Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

Henry M Paulson - Twelve, 2015.
Format: Print book

"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER"DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism. " Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson...
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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

Eric Metaxas - Viking
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin...
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Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

JOHN KIRIAKOU - Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book
Format: Hardcover

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on Al Qaeda prisoners.Doing Time Like A Spy is Kiriakou's memoir...
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Armageddon: THE BATTLE TO STOP OBAMA'S THIRD TERM

Dick Morris - Humanix Pub Llc
Format: Print book

Timed for the critical presidential election season, New York Times bestselling author and noted political commentator Dick Morris provides a strategy and position on the issues for Republicans to attract crucial new voters to the party in order to win back the White House in 2016...
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The Seven Sins of Wall Street: Big Banks, their Washington Lackeys, and the Next Financial Crisis

Bob Ivry - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

We all know that the financial crisis of 2008 came dangerously close to pushing the United States and the world into a depression rivaling that of the 1930s. But what is astonishing - and should make us not just afraid but very afraid - are the shenanigans of the biggest banks since the crisis....
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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria

Alia Malek - Nation Books
Format: Print book

At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people...
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era

TA-NEHISI COATES - One World
Format: Book

In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power"...

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No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state

Glenn Greenwald - Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Format: Print book

Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald provides an in-depth look into the National Security Agency scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself,...
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Untitled on HRC

Jonathan Allen - Crown
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about...
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Dateline Vermont

Chris Graff - Thistle Hill Publications
Format: Hardcover

During his more than a quarter-century tenure at The Associated Press, Chris Graff covered myriad big stories. Among them: The rise, fall, and rise again of Howard Dean; The remarkable career of Jim Jeffords, including his defection from the Republican Party; The ascension of Patrick Leahy...
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

JON MEACHAM - Random House
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * The...
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Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home

James Carville - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

For twenty years, James Carville and Mary Matalin have held the mantle of the nation's most politically opposed, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couple. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, Carville and Matalin...
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The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

Patricia Bell-Scott - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Longlisted for the National Book AwardA groundbreaking book - two decades in the works - that tells the story of how a brilliant writer-turned-activist, granddaughter of a mulatto slave, and the first lady of the United States, whose ancestry gave her membership in the Daughters of the American...
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

ANONYMOUS. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most...
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Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

1 New York Times Bestseller In this highly anticipated follow-up to his blockbuster The Amateur, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Edward Klein delves into the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons. An old-school reporter with incredible insider contacts, Klein...
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The Attica Turkey Shoot: Carnage, Cover-Up, and the Pursuit of Justice

Malcolm Bell - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

The Attica Turkey Shoot tells a story that New York State did not want you to know. In 1971, following a prison riot at the Attica Correctional Facility, state police and prison guards slaughtered thirty-nine hostages and inmates and tortured more than one thousand men after they had surrendered....
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

DAVID GARROW - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National...
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Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world

Anand Giridharadas - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

An insider's incisive and eye-opening account of the hypocrisies lurking behind the global elite's efforts to "change the world" through philanthropy and free enterprise without confronting their role in creating and perpetuating the very problems they purport to solve. Anand...
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Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals

JEREMY MCCARTER - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, a stunning group portrait of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk...
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From the Corner of the Oval

REBECCA DOREY-STEIN - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House, through the eyes of a young staffer learning the ropes, falling in love, and finding her place in the world. In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in DC when a posting on Craigslist...
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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

Nicholas D. Kristof - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroada road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles...
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The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America

Arthur C. Brooks - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

The prominent economist and president of the American Enterprise Institute - the leading intellectual think tank on the right - offers a bold new vision for conservatism as a movement for social and economic justice.In The Conservative Heart, Arthur C. Brooks contends that after years of focusing...
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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die

Garrett Graff - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The eye-opening true story of the government's secret plans to survive and rebuild after a catastrophic attack on US soil - a narrative that span from the dawn of the nuclear age to today. Every day in Washington, DC, the blue-and-gold 1st Helicopter Squadron, code-named "MUSSEL,"...
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerIt is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over...
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America: Imagine a World without Her

Dinesh D'Souza - Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh...
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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World

Eileen McNamara - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family's most profound political legacy.While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping...
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Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist

Jennet Conant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant - a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War - told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant.James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center...
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17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History

Andrew Morton - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II.Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward...
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

KAMALA HARRIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth...
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Eliza Griswold - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating...
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One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported

E J JR DIONNE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

With Donald Trump's election we find ourselves at an existential moment in our republic's history. His campaign, victory, and first months in office, egregious in previously unimaginable ways, suggest a threat to the well-being of our country and the sustainability of our democracy. In One...
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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

Kevin Phillips - Viking
Format: Print book

In his acclaimed book American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the spiking cost (and growing scarcity) of oil- warnings that are proving to be frighteningly accurate. Now, in his most significant and timely book yet, Phillips...
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After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead

Alan S. Blinder - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

With bracing clarity, Blinder shows us how the U.S. financial system, which had grown far too complex for its own good-and too unregulated for the public good-experienced a perfect storm beginning in 2007. When Americas financial structure crumbled, the damage proved to be not only deep,...
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

Bill Minutaglio - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963, comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law.On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius I.Q....
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Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream

Joshua Davis - FSG Originals
Format: Hardcover

Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion pictureIn 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born...
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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America

David Horowitz - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover

Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America - and the world.One of the nation's foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author,...
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

ALISSA QUART - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies...
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Tyrant

STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny....
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

Ben Carson - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation's...
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Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

Carolina De Robertis - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Radical Hope is a collection of letters - to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged - written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical...
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Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

Ron Miscavige - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

The only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader, RUTHLESS tells the revealing story of David Miscavige's childhood and his path to the head seat of the Church of Scientology told through the eyes of his father. Ron Miscavige's personal, heartfelt story is a riveting...
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Liars, Leakers and Liberals

JEANINE PIRRO - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

As host of her own show on Fox for many years, Judge Jeanine Pirro has seen firsthand how narratives take form, whether they are based in truth or not. In her explosive new book, she will write about some of the most egregious lies she's seen, and take on the Liars, Leakers, and Liberals.
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The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors

Charles Krauthammer - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical - including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about...
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Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution

John Paul Stevens - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

For the first time ever, a retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change. By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more...
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

Laurie Garrett - Hyperion; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Garrett takes us to India, where she meticulously examines the course of the countrys pneumonic plague; to Zaire, where the Ebola virus is still largely unchecked; and to Russia, where bad policy and a collapsing society have made for staggering setbacks in all areas of health. Garrett...
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My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace

Ehud Barak - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The definitive memoir of one of Israel's most influential soldier-statesmen and one-time Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, with insights into forging peace in the Middle East.In the summer of 2000, the most decorated soldier in Israel's history -- Ehud Barak -- set himself a challenge as daunting...
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Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture

Karenga Maulana. - University of Sankore Press
Format: Book

Discusses the origins, values, and celebrations of Kwanzaa, and offers historical and cultural background information
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

Joe Biden - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what...
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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

BEN RHODES - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From one of Obama's closest aides comes a revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of his presidency - and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive - in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. For nearly ten years,...
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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line

DAVID HOGG - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

From two students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement that arose after the Parkland, Florida, shooting.On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister,...
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Scorched Earth: Restoring America after Obama

Michael Savage - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

"New York Times" bestselling author Michael Savage reveals why we have an infected political system, and what we can now do to nurse the country back to health. Michael Savages says that for the past eight years there has been a retrovirus in the White House, and that the last...
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The NYPD Tapes: A Shocking Story of Cops, Cover-ups, and Courage

Graham A. Rayman - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover

In May 2010, NYPD officer Adrian Schoolcraft made national headlines when he released a series of secretly recorded audio tapes exposing corruption and abuse at the highest levels of the police department. But, according to a lawsuit filed by Schoolcraft against the City of New York, instead...
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So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling...
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The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership: Classical Wisdom for Modern Leaders

M. A. Soupios - AMACOM
Format: Hardcover

Skills and experience might land you a leadership position, but they don't make you a true leader. Leadership comes from inside - and the greatest leaders first question themselves before they tackle the world around them. To aid in this critical interrogation, The Ten Golden Rules...
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