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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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Wheelchairs Scooters and Sticks

Terry Reynolds - Xlibris UK
Format: eBook

Wheelchairs, scooters, and sticks all things to do with mobility and access. My involvement in working with disability was purely by accident, and profit was my motive which you will read about in the book. However, it went much further as I could see that the more access, the better it was for everyone...
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When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

Steven D. Levitt - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It's the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics. Surprising and erudite, eloquent and witty,...
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ISIS: The State of Terror

Jessica Stern - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated...
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The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year

Amy Siskind - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List."In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda,...
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How Churchill Saved Civilization: The Epic Story of 13 Years That Almost Destroyed the Civilized World

John Harte - W W Norton
Format: Print book

How Churchill Saved Civilization resolves the lingering mysteries surrounding the causes of the Second World War, and what transpired during the war to bring its end result. It proposes answers to such questions as "Why were the Allies unprepared?", "Why did France collapse...
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Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America

Bruce Barcott - Time Home Entertainment
Format: Hardcover

The legalization of marijuana is the next great reversal of history. Perhaps the most demonized substance in America, scientifically known as Cannabis sativa, simply a very fast growing herb, thrived underground as the nation's most popular illegal drug. Now the tide has shifted: In 1996...
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Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey

David Hugh Bunnell - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling...
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So You Want To Be a Cop: What Everyone Should Know Before Entering a Law Enforcement Career

Alley Evola - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Many children, from the time they are old enough to be attracted to a siren and flashing lights, dream their whole lives of becoming a police officer. As a retired police officer, herself, Alley Evola looks at the daily ins and outs of the job of a police officer. From recruitment, life...
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Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt

Sarah Jaffe - Nation Books
Format: Print book

"Sarah Jaffe marches into the class war, fighting the good fight with a pen as sharp as any sword." - Bill Moyers"The most compelling social and political portrait of our age." - Robin D. G. KelleyWe are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political engagement and social...
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The New Threat: The Past, Present, and Future of Islamic Militancy

Jason Burke - The Bodley Head, 2015.
Format: eBook

Jason Burke is one of the world's leading experts on militant Islam. He embedded with the Kurdish peshmerga (currently at war with ISIS) while still in college. He was hanging out with the Taliban in the late 1990s. He witnessed the bombing of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in 2001 firsthand.With...
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Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto

Jesse Ventura - W W Norton
Format: Print book

In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author Jesse Ventura lays out his philosophy on marijuana, and why he's always been in favor of legalization. Now, more than ever before, our country needs to see full legalization of medical/recreational marijuana and hemp.Any way you look at it, for whoever...
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Population Control: How Corporate Owners Are Killing Us

Jim Marrs - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseases that may not even exist, obscure cancers caused by our modern devices, and brutal police...
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash

Richard Lourie - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just...
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End the IRS Before It Ends Us: How to Restore a Low Tax, High Growth, Wealthy America

Grover Norquist - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

As the recent scandal shows, the IRS is big, bad, and out of control. Grover Norquist analyzes the problems within the agency and presents solutions to rein them in. The driving force behind the American Revolution was our forefathers' refusal to accept unfair taxation. Citizens rose...
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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force

Eliot A Cohen - Basic Books
Format: Print book

In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen argues that the United States must use military power in support of its foreign policy, but that doing so will be increasingly difficult. The United States must continue to assume primary responsibility for maintaining world order, or risk a chaotic international...
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In Trump We Trust: How He Outsmarted the Politicians, the "Elites," and the Media

Ann Coulter - Sentinel
Format: Print book

Donald Trump isn't a politician -- he's a one man wrecking ball against our dysfunctional and corrupt establishment. Now Ann Coulter, with her unique insight, candor, and sense of humor, makes the definitive case for why we should all join his revolution. The three biggest news stories...
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Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings

Louis Klarevas - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover

In the past decade, no individual act of violence has killed more people in the United States than the mass shooting. This well-researched, forcefully argued book answers some of the most pressing questions facing our society: Why do people go on killing sprees? Are gun-free zones magnets...
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Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf - Arcade
Format: Paperback

The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape, feminist icon Gloria Steinem said Periods Gone Public, "maybe the beginning of liberation for us all."From eliminating the tampon tax, to enacting new laws ensuring access to affordable, safe...
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail

Jonathan Chait - Custom House
Format: Print book

"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from...
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BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google

John Palfrey - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.. In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that...
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The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers

Richard J Aldrich - William Collins
Format: Hardcover

'The Black Door' explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith's Secret Service Bureau to Cameron's National Security Council. At the beginning of the 20th Century the British intelligence system...
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.

Nicholson Baker - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best...
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Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together

ANDREW SELEE - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

A nuanced, story-driven narrative about the deeply intertwined business and cultural relationship between the United States and Mexico, and the need to tear down, rather than fortify, wallsA certain narrative about the relationship between the United States and Mexico has taken shape over...
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How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft

Edward Jay Epst - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking expos that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important. After details of American government...
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The Maker Cookbook: Recipes for Children's and 'Tween Library Programs

Cindy R. Wall - Libraries Unlimited
Format: Print book

The Maker Movement is sweeping the nation because it is creative and educational - and a lot of fun. Nonetheless, some librarians have hesitated to incorporate the movement into their programming because their libraries do not have dedicated makerspaces. If that describes you, then take...
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Democracy Betrayed: The Rise of the Surveillance Security State

William W. Keller - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Print book

In the aftermath of 9/11, in collusion with booming technological advancements, a new and more authoritarian form of governance is supplanting liberal democracy. The creation of the Security Industrial Complex - an "internal security state-within-the-state" fueled by tech companies,...
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom

Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Book

When the United States was founded, it was the only attempt at self-government in the world. Today more than half of all countries qualify as democracies, and in the long run that number will continue to grow. Yet nothing worthwhile ever comes easily. Using America's long struggle as a template,...
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando

PAUL KIX - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur...
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A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World

Daniel Goleman - Bantam Books,
Format: Print book

For more than half a century, the Dalai Lama has guided us along the path to compassion and taught us how to improve our inner lives. Here, with the help of his longtime friend Daniel Goleman, the bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence, the Dalai Lama explains how to turn our compassionate...
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most...
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The Cold War: A World History

Odd Arne Westad - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the worldWe tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming...
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The Republic of Conscience

Gary Hart - Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Format: Print book

Former Senator Gary Hart's The Republic of Conscience is a meditation on the growing gap between the founding principles of the United States Constitution and our current political landscape. Going back as early as 400 BC, the idea of a true republic has been threatened by narrow,...
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Adios, America

Ann Coulter - Regnery Pub
Format: Hardcover

Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government...
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No Justice: One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart

ROBBIE TOLAN - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

Heather Mac Donald - Encounter Books
Format: Print book

Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson...
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A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Alexis Okeowo - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

"Absolutely essential reading, period."---Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo--a vivid...
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Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement & Medical Benefits

Joseph Matthews Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits Everyone wants the highest possible retirement and pension income, not to mention the best medical coverage. Find out what you're entitled to with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions - completely...
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J D Vance - Harper
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book."...
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Plunder and Deceit

Mark R. Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

In each of his astounding 1 New York Times bestsellers, Mark R. Levins overlying patriotic mission has been to avert a devastating tragedy The loss of the greatest republic known to mankind. But who stands to lose the most? In modern America, the civil society is being steadily devoured...
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Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement

Alexander Thurston - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groupsBoko Haram is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that began in Nigeria but has since spread...
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

Joe Jackson - Farrar
Format: Print book

The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the worldBlack Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews,...
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Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

Samuel I Schwartz - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book

On a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York's West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road was closed, seemingly for good, and the 80,000 cars that traveled it each day had to find a new way to their destinations. It ought to have...
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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops

Charles Campisi - Scribner
Format: Print book

This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau from...
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

Michelle Kuo - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta "Reading with Patrick could be the most affecting book you'll read this year."...
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Hacking ISIS: The War to Kill the Cyber Jihad

Malcolm Nance - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world - Malcolm Nance, NBC News/MSNBC terrorism analyst and New York Times bestselling author, and Christopher Sampson, cyber-terrorist expert. Malcolm Nance is a 35 year practitioner in Middle East Special Operations...
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100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation

Clint Emerson - Touchstone
Format: Print book

A hands-on, practical survival guide from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson - adapted for civilians from actual special forces operations - to eluding pursuers, evading capture, and surviving any dangerous situation.In today's increasingly dangerous world, threats to your personal safety...
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Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth

Avi Melamed - W W Norton, 2015.
Format: Print book

Acclaimed Israeli intelligence analyst Avi Melamed has spent more than thirty years interpreting Middle East affairs. His long-awaited Inside the Middle East challenges widely-accepted perceptions and provides a gripping and uniquely enlightening guide to make sense of the events unfolding...
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The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

Anu Partanen - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children.Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly...
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Another day in the death of America : a chronicle of ten short lives

Gary Younge - Nation Books
Format: Print book

On an average day in America, seven young people, aged nineteen or under, will be shot dead.In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost on one random day - November 23, 2013. Ten children died that day....
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Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games

Ian Bogost - Basic Books
Format: eBook

How filling life with play - whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds - forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient ageLife is no game. It's demanding, boring, and rarely fun. But what if we've got games wrong? Playing anything - whether...
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

TIMOTHY SNYDER - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy...
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Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything

Thomas Lake - Melcher Media
Format: Print book

Unprecedented's second printing features a new cover for the inauguration, with an exclusive portrait of the president-elect.Packed with exclusive photojournalism and new revelations straight from the front lines, Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything chronicles...
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I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime

JOE KENDA - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power

Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Book

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world - the vice presidents of the modern era - from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents...

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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 Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

Chris Whipple - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president...
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Pretend I'm Not Here: How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One Powerful First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp

Barbara Feinman Todd - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

An accomplished former ghostwriter and book researcher who worked with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Hillary Clinton goes behind-the-scenes of the national's capital to tell the story of how she survived the exciting, but self-important and self-promoting world of the Beltway.Barbara...
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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 True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

Stephen Kinzer - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes...
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton

Jefferson Morley - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton was one of the most powerful unelected officials in the United States government in the mid-20th century, a ghost of American power. From World War II to the Cold War, Angleton operated beyond the view of the public, Congress, and even the president. He unwittingly...
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A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties

Ben Carson - Sentinel
Format: Print book

Dear Reader, Many people have wondered why I ve beenspeaking out on controversial issues forthe last few years. They say I ve never heldpolitical office. I m not a constitutional scholar. I m not even a lawyer. All I can sayto that is Guilty as charged. It s true that I ve never voted for a budget...
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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe

George Friedman - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A major new book by New York Timesbestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years) , with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe. This provocative work examines "flashpoints, "unique geopolitical hot spots where tensions have erupted...
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge - Bloomsbury Circus
Format: Hardcover

'This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential' Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-Winner 2015'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good ImmigrantA...
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Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

JOSEPH MATTHEWS - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits. The rules for claiming Social Security benefits are changing. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government...
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The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs

ED ASNER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Al Franken and Michael Moore, Ed Asner - a.k.a. Lou Grant from The Mary Tyler Moore Show - reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who think that they and only they know how to interpret it.Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat from the old days, figured...
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Path of Blood: The Story of Al Qaeda's War on the House of Saud

Thomas Small - Overlook Books
Format: Hardcover

From the makers of the forthcoming documentary, the history of Al Qaeda’s secret war against Saudi Arabia Path of Blood tells the gripping and horrifying true story of the underground army which Osama Bin Laden created in order to attack his number one target: his home country,...
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Let's Talk About Death: Asking the Questions that Profoundly Change the Way We Live and Die

Steve Gordon - Prometheus Books
Format: eBook

Experts in end-of-life care tell us that we should talk about death and dying with relatives and friends, but how do we get such conversations off the ground in a society that historically has avoided the topic This book provides one example of such a conversation. The coauthors take up challenging...
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Lincoln's notebooks : letters, speeches, journals, notes, poems, and doodles

Abraham Lincoln - Hachette Books

This unique collection combines the public and private words of our most beloved and eloquent American president into one essential notebook of his writings.
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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder

Peter Zeihan - Twelve; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER will be a much discussed, contrarian, and eye-opening assessment of American power. Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international...
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First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence

Harlow G Unger - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

Before Washington, before Jefferson, before Franklin or John Adams, there was Lee--Richard Henry Lee, the First Founding Father.Richard Henry Lee was the first to call for independence, and the first to call for union. He was "father of our country" as much as George Washington,...
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Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time

DAVID MILIBAND - Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover

We are in the midst of a global refugee crisis. Sixty five million people are fleeing for their lives. The choices are urgent, not just for them but for all of us. What can we possibly do to help?With compassion and clarity, David Miliband shows why we should care and how we can make a difference....
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Drone Warrior: An Elite Soldiers Inside Account of the Hunt for Americas Most Dangerous Enemies

Brett Velicovich - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

"A must read for anyone who wants to understand the new American way of war." - General Michael V. Hayden, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency A former special operations member takes us inside Americas covert drone war in this...
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"One of America's most important journalists" (The Washington Monthly) , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Making of Donald Trump, David Cay Johnston examines the Trump Administration's policies in its first one hundred...
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

JEANNE THEOHARIS - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

Explodes the fables that have been created about the civil rights movementThe civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered...
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The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur

Scott S Greenberger - Da Capo Press
Format: eBook

Nobody expected the vice president, a New York political hack, to be president. And after President James A. Garfield was shot in 1881, nobody expected Chester A. Arthur to become a strong and effective president, a courageous anti-corruption reformer, and an early civil rights advocate....
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What Unites Us

Dan Rather - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on - and writing passionately about - what...
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Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World

Jamie Bartlett - Nation Books
Format: Paperback

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard ShawWithin each society are sub-cultures - groups that believe that our problems...
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Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples, A

Frederick Hertz Attorney - NOLO
Format: Eighteenth Edition

Protect yourself and your loved one with sound legal planning . Gay and lesbian couples have gained a lot of legal ground in recent years. Although same-sex marriage is now legal across the U.S.,laws governing civil unions and domestic partnerships vary from state to state. . So its still...
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Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House

Alyssa Mastromonaco - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this. WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA? is an intimate and admiring portrait of a president, a candid book of advice for young women,...
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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

KATY TUR - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Compelling ... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in JournalismCalled "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice"...
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Official social security administration answers to 100 frequently asked questions about retirement

Social Security Administration. - Welcome Rain
Format: Print book

For most Americans, Social Security is their largest financial asset, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and indexed against increases in the cost of living. But it is estimated that Americans lose $10 billion a year in unclaimed benefits. This is money that has been earned, that they...
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When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

Steven D. Levitt - William Morrow
Format: Print book

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It's the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics. Surprising and erudite, eloquent and witty,...
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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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DC Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington

David Schoenbrod - Encounter Books
Format: Print book

You think you know why our government in Washington is broken, but you really don't. You think it's broken because politicians curry favor with special interests and activists of the Left or Right. There's something to that and it helps explain why these politicians can't...
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When Montezuma Met Corts: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

MATTHEW RESTALL - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Corts that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Corts first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital...
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Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service

GARY J BYRNE - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

SECRETS OF THE SECRET SERVICE is a unique, behind-the-scenes look at what makes the Secret Service tick and the increasingly reactive strategies and tactics that place presidential security at risk. The United States Secret Service is tasked with one of the world's most important missions:...
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Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable

Baylen J Linnekin - Island Press
Format: Print book

Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks - these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Baylen Linnekin argues...
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

MAX BOOT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987) , the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet...
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Robert D Putnam - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

A New York Times bestseller and "a passionate, urgent" (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.Central to the very idea of America is the principle...
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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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The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

David Simon - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime...
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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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Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

Corey R. Lewandowski - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

LET TRUMP BE TRUMP: THE INSIDE STORY OF HIS PRESIDENCY is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of how he became President of the United States.Donald Trump was a candidate, and now a president, like none that have come before. His startling rise to the White House is the greatest political...
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When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi
Format: electronic resource

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST...
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In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World

Rachel Dolezal - BenBella Books
Format: Print book

A lot of people have made up their minds about Rachel Doleal. But none of them know her real story. In June 2015, the media "outed" Rachel Doleal as a white woman who had knowingly been "passing" as Black. When asked if she were African American during an interview about...
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Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?

Chelsea Clinton - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health organizations. These organizations...
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A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World

Daniel Goleman - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

For more than half a century, in such books as The Art of Happiness and The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace, the Dalai Lama has guided us along the path to compassion and taught us how to improve our inner lives. In A Force for Good, with the help of his longtime friend Daniel...
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When Parents Part: How Mothers and Fathers Can Help Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce

Penelope Leach - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed, best-selling author of Your Baby & Child and one of the world's leading experts on child development and parenting, a practical, comprehensively researched guide to doing the best for your child during and after separation or divorce. Recent research clarifies...
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Jon Krakauer - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: eBook

From bestselling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana - stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with...
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Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box

ANGELA P DODSON - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

2017 begins the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote, culminating in national suffrage three years later. This book documents the milestones in that hard won struggle and reflects on women's impact on politics since.
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy

David A Nichols - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch...
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America in the Age of Trump: A Bipartisan Guide

Douglas E. Schoen - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover

America in the Age of Trump is a bracing, essential look at the failure of a great nation to meet the needs of its people and the challenges of the age - and the resulting collapse of public trust in government, as well as a pervasive crisis of national values, from broken families...
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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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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery

Cathryn Jakobson Ramin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesnt, what may cause harm,...
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Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West

Walter Laqueur - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

There is no question that tensions between Russia and America are on the rise. The forced annexation of Crimea, the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, and the Russian government's treatment of homosexuals have created diplomatic standoffs and led to a volley of economic sanctions....
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Poetry and Power: John F. Kennedy's Vision for America

STEPHEN KENNEDY SMITH - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures - including Senator Elizabeth Warren,...
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The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI

Marc Ruskin - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Of all the tools available to law enforcement, the living, breathing undercover operative remains the gold standard. This is true in TV shows and in the real world. In the era of electronic surveillance, UC work enforces accountability; it prevents mistakes, and of all the boots on the ground,...
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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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Lenin on the Train

Catherine Merridale - Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future...
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Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

Henry M Paulson - Twelve
Format: Book

Henry M. Paulson, Jr. , former Secretary of the U. S. Treasury and CEO of Goldman Sachs, delivers a behind-the-scenes account of China's rise as an economic superpower. When Hu Jintao, China's then vice president, came to visit the New York Stock Exchange and Ground Zero in 2002, he asked...
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The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

Judith Rodin - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Building resilience—the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively—is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm,...
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DIY Rules for a WTF World: How to Speak Up, Get Creative, and Change the World

Krista Suh - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of the Pussyhat Project comes a manifesto for every woman to create her own distinct and original path to joy, success, and impact.On January 21, 2017, millions of protestors took part in the Women's March, and many of them created a "sea of pink" when they wore...
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Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself

Amanda Litman - Atria Books
Format: eBook

From the email marketing director of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the co-founder of Run for Something comes an essential and inspiring guide that encourages and educates young progressives to run for local office, complete with contributions from elected officials and political...
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Alexander Hamilton's Revolution: His Vital Role as Washington's Chief of Staff

Ph.D. Phillip Thomas Tucker - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

Despite his less-than-promising beginnings as the only key Founding Father not born and raised on American soil, Hamilton was one of the best and brightest of his generation. His notoriety has rested almost entirely on his role as Secretary of the Treasury in Washington's administration,...
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

NADIA MURAD - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover

In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters...
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Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think

Ken Buck - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Lavish parties. Committee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder. Welcome to Washington, D.C., the swamp that President Donald Trump was elected to drain.Congressman Ken Buck is blowing the whistle on the real-life...
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Steve Silberman - Avery, a member of Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book

A New York Times bestsellerWinner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fictionA groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism?...
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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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