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Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil

Hamish McKenzie - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

"You'll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?" --Elon Musk, TED interview Hamish McKenzie tells how a West Coast start-up's audacious dream came true. Elon Musk created a car company that would go up against not only the might of the government-backed Detroit...
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Fed, White, and Blue: Finding America with My Fork

Simon Majumdar - Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover

Simon Majumdar is probably not your typical idea of an immigrant. As he says, "I'm well rested, not particularly poor, and the only time I ever encounter 'huddled masses' is in line at Costco." But immigrate he did, and thanks to a Homeland Security agent who asked...
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iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age

Bill Gertz - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author and veteran Washington Times columnist explains how the United States can beat China, Russia, Iran, and ISIS in the coming information-technology wars.America is at war, but most of its citizens don't know it. Covert information warfare is being...
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The Crowdfunding Handbook: Raise Money for Your Small Business or Start-Up with Equity Funding Portals

Cliff Ennico - AMACOM
Format: Print book

Ever wish your company could raise capital the Kickstarter(R) way? Equity crowdfunding is finally here, opening new funding avenues for small businesses and start-ups. In April 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups--or JOBS--Act into law. This groundbreaking...
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The Brothers: Inside the Private Worlds of William and Harry

Christopher Andersen - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Diana's Boys revealed the iron-strong bond between the teenaged princes, and how it strengthened even more in the wake of their mother's tragic death. Now, twenty years later, Queen Elizabeth II is in her mid-nineties, Prince Charles is in his seventies, and all eyes are turned...
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The Little Book of Bob: Life Lessons from a Streetwise Cat

James Bowen - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"An international phenomenon" -Library JournalFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Street Cat Named Bob comes an uplifting book of wisdom and advice from the most street-savvy cat of them all.In spring of 2007, street busker James Bowen found an injured...
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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World

Chris Wallace - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings and events across the globe during the 116 days leading up to the world's first use of the atomic bomb in wartime - the American attack on Hiroshima...
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Wild Is the Wind: Poems

Carl Phillips - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets"What has restlessness been for?" In Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named -- love at once restless, reckless, and yet desired...
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Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

Amaryllis Fox - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughterAmaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford...
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Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose

Gabrielle Bernstein - Hay House, Inc.,
Format: Print book

Miracles Now by New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein will help readers clear stress and find peace - even if they only have a minute to spare. Bernstein knows that most of us don't have time for an hour of yoga or 30 minutes of meditation to dissolve our anxiety, so she has hand-picked...
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