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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

Sierra Crane Murdoch - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it - an urgent work of literary journalism. "I don't know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged...
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Well, This Is Exhausting: Essays

Sophia Benoit
Format: Hardcover


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Becoming My Sister

V. C. Andrews - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

Like everyone else in Palm Springs, Gish idolizes her smart, beautiful, kind older sister. Even their parents compare Gish unfavorably to Gloria - threatening to send her to boarding school once the more perfect sister leaves for college. But Gloria has an unwavering love for Gish, even...
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The NRA: The Unauthorized History

Frank Smyth - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

For the first time, the definitive account of America's most powerful, most secretive, and most controversial nonprofit, and how far it has strayed from its origins. The National Rifle Association is unique in American life. Few other civic organizations are as old or as large. None...
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The Education of an Idealist CD: A Memoir

Samantha Power - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy."In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What...
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Election Interference: International Law and the Future of Democracy

Jens David Ohlin - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover

Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election produced the biggest political scandal in a generation, marking the beginning of an ongoing attack on democracy. In the run-up to the 2020 election, Russia was found to have engaged in more "information operations," a practice...
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The Girl in the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America

Byron L. Dorgan - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Through the story of Tamara, an abused Native American child, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan describes the plight of many children living on reservations -- and offers hope for the future. On a winter morning in 1990, U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck...
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What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era

Carlos Lozada - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming...
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Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South

Karen L. Cox - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery - known in the press as the "Wild Man" and the "Goat...
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Trump vs China: America's Greatest Challenge

Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sounds the warning bell that China poses the biggest threat to the United States.Every American needs to understand the threat to America's safety and prosperity posed by China's reemergence as a world power. Unlike our other economic and military...
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