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A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
Paul Caruana Galizia - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A journalist's spellbinding account of the shocking murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reverberated far beyond their tiny homelandAn archipelago off the southern coast of Italy, Malta is a picturesque gem eroded by a climate of corruption, polarization,... |
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The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address
JOSEPH RODOTA - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of The Residence and This Town, this absorbing history features a remarkable cast of politicians, journalists, socialites, and spies who made the Watergate the most famous - and some say infamous - private address in Washington.Opened in 1965 and located along the Potomac River... |
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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
Adam Schiff - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump's Russia and Ukraine-related... |
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Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us
Evan J Mandery - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening look at how America's elite colleges and suburbs help keep the rich rich - making it harder than ever to fight the inequality dividing us todayThe front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger,... |
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Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership
Edward J. Larson - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark new work of American history: From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson a groundbreaking dual biography of America's two pre-eminent Founders - Benjamin Franklin and George Washington - examining in fresh detail how their underexplored relationship forged the United... |
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The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency
John Dickerson - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"The office is kinda like the little country boy found a hoochie coochie show at the carnival. Once he paid his dime and got inside the tent: it ain't exactly as it was advertised."--Lyndon JohnsonImagine you have just been elected president. You are now commander-in-chief,... |
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 19361939
Adam Hochschild - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s,... |
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The Snowden Reader
David P. Fidler - Indiana University Press
Format: Print book
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When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden's disclosures and their aftermath. Critical analyses by experts... |
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Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis
Gerri Chanel - Icon Books
Format: Hardcover
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In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley. So began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move... |
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi - One World
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society... |
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