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Rescued from ISIS: The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son

DIMITRI BONTINCK - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Rescued from ISIS is the inspiring and terrifying tale of one man's journey to the Middle East to save his child from radical Islam, and its surprising worldwide repercussions.Dimitri Bontinck lived every parent's worst nightmare. His teenage son, introduced to Islam by his girlfriend,...
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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

Adam Schiff - Random House
Format: Hardcover

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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The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare

John Lisle - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch - The Dirty Tricks Department - and its role in World War II.In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington,...
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The Wife of Bath: A Biography

Marion Turner - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature,...
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For Love of Country: Why I Left the Democratic Party

Tulsi Gabbard - Impact Audio
Format: Hardcover

Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democratic Party. But the growing wokeness, racism, and intolerance were more than she could stomach, and she left. This is her story. Today's Democratic Party is controlled by an elitist cabal of warmongers driven crazy by woke ideology and anti-white...
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, inspiring true stories as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.. To be a bookseller or librarian ... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker....
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory

Andrew J. Bacevich - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power.When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed...
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us

Margaret MacMillan - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Is peace an aberration? The bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE EAST HAMPTON STAR"Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal...
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The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea

Bill Emmott - Economist Books
Format: Hardcover

When faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth and solidifying power. We have seen it at various times in Japan, France and Italy and now it is infecting all of Europe and America, as the vote for Brexit...
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Wanderess: The Unearth Women Guide to Traveling Smart, Safe, and Solo

Nikki Vargas - Clarkson Potter
Format: Paperback


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