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Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

Russ Buettner · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump's finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump's wealth, revealing how one of the country's biggest business failures lied his way into...
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The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World

Noam Chomsky · Penguin Press
Format: Book

From one of the world's most prominent thinkers, an urgent warning of the threat that U.S. power poses to humanity's future as well as a sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the national myths that support itThe Myth of American Idealism offers a timely and comprehensive...

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Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind

Julius Garvey · Broadleaf Books
Format: Paperback

Join thought leaders fighting to win the posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey, one of the most influential figures in Black history.Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was a Black political activist, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African...
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

John Grisham · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the injustice faced...
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

Charles King · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel's Messiah. George Frideric Handel's Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory...
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The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime

Shirley MacLaine · Crown
Format: Hardcover

Academy Award-winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Shirley MacLaine shares a dazzling memoir in photographs, chronicling her extraordinary life with 150 images from her personal archive. With more than seventy years on the silver screen, Shirley MacLaine has, as she says,...
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We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People

Nemonte Nenquimo · Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover

From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist, an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest and protect her people . Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest - one of the last to be contacted...
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Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers: Her Life, the Imperial Ideal, and the Politics and Turmoil That Shaped Her Extraordinary Reign

Anne Somerset · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A riveting portrait of Queen Victoria and the ten prime ministers who headed British government during her sixty-three-year reign. It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't be more wrong. A passionate and opinionated leader, Victoria was born...
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A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National Park

Randall K. Wilson · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

This epic history of America's first national park explores how a remote Western landscape became an iconic symbol of our country and its vast wilderness so influential to our understanding of the natural world. It has been called Wonderland, America's Serengeti, the crown jewel...
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