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The Heartbeat of Iran: Real Voices of A Country and Its People

Tara Kangarlou - Ig Publishing
Format: Paperback

"Here are tender, lyrical, colorful stories of an Iran that Americans do not know and have no way of discovering directly. Tara Kangarou has created a work of people-to-people diplomacy, using her words to paint pictures of a very different country than the harsh, angry land depicted...
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Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

Chun Han Wong - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People's Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies.....
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The January 6th Report: Findings from the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

The January 6 Select Committee - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The official report by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, featuring an exclusive foreword on the state of American democracy by Congressman Adam Schiff. On January 6, 2021, the United States came perilously close to losing its democracy....
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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 Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage

Mara Hvistendahl - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near...
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

LAUREN MARKHAM - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins...
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The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

PETER BAKER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From top journalists and the bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington, an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency.Revered journalists Peter Baker of TheNew York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker tell the inside story of the four years when Donald Trump...
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The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos

Mark Chiusano - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America's most outrageous grifter - US Representative George Santos.. America has grown used to larger-than-life politicians: Teflon Don, AOC, MTG, Dark...
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Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes

Richard A. Clarke - ?Ecco; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From President Bill Clintons recommended reading list

Publishers Weekly Bestseller

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