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A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

Carol Leonnig - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump's shambolic tenure in office to date." - Dwight Garner, The New York TimesWashington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker,...
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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration

Emily Bazelon - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis - and charts a way out. The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense,...
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An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream

Julian Castro - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Julian Castro, 2020 Presidential candidate, keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, and former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story.. In the spirit of a young Barack Obamas Dreams from My Father comes a candid and compelling...
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Permanent Record

Arthur King - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013,...
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Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity

Winona Guo - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening exploration of race in AmericaIn this deeply inspiring book, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all walks of life about race and identity on a cross-country tour of America. Spurred by the realization that they had nearly completed...
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Open Season: The Systemic Legalization of Discrimination

BENJAMIN CRUMP - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

Foreword by Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowAfterword by Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney GeneralThe president of the National Bar Association and one of the most distinguished civil rights attorneys working today reflects on the landmark cases he has battled - including...
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling

Michael Cannell - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall -- for almost two decades, no place...
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917 -- 2017

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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America

Gene Weingarten - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten...
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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

Melinda Gates - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"The Moment of Lift is an urgent call to courage. It changed how I think about myself, my family, my work, and what's possible in the world. Melinda weaves together vulnerable, brave storytelling and compelling data to make this one of those rare books that you carry...
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We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America

D. Watkins - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income black communities, while also offering a new framework for how we can improve the conversations occuring about them. While author D. Watkins is pleased about the number...
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The Book of Delights: Essays

Ross Gay - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"Ross Gay's eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small miracles that surround us." - Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays,...
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Solitary

Albert Woodfox - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement -- in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana -- all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat...
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Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants

H W BRANDS - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how America's second generation of political giants--Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun--battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the shape of our democracy.In...
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The Case for Impeachment

ALLAN J LICHTMAN - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year." - The Hill"It is still striking to see the full argument unfold and realize that you don't have to be a zealot to imagine some version of it happening ... Lies. Abuse of power. Treason....
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The Ambassadors: Americas Diplomats on the Front Lines

Paul Richter - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Veteran diplomatic correspondent Paul Richter goes behind the battles and the headlines to show how American ambassadors are the unconventional warriors in the Muslim world - running local government, directing drone strikes, nation-building, and risking their lives on the front lines.....
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Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

A leading scholar's powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system For most of America's history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state...
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The Mueller Report

Washington Post - Scribner
Format: Paperback

The Crucial #1 New York Times Bestseller "The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype ... the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency." - Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post The only book with exclusive...
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Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

Chris Christie - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

From the outspoken former governor, presidential candidate, and chair of the Trump transition, a no-holds-barred account of Christie's years atop the national political scene--his rise to power through the bare-knuckle politics of New Jersey, his fifteen-year friendship with Donald Trump,...
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The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists

Tracy Walder - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs"A thrilling tale...Walder's fast-paced and intense narrative opens a window into life in two of America's major intelligence agencies" -- Publishers...
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Untitled Louise Lobo

Louise Lobo - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"You have replaced 'advice and consent' with 'search and destroy.'" - BRETT KAVANAUGH In this deeply researched account, one of Washington's top legal reporters reveals the massive funding, sophisticated organization, and fanatical zeal behind the campaign to stop Brett Kavanaugh's...
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The Case for Trump

Victor Davis Hanson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning historian and regular Fox contributor, the true story of how Donald Trump has become one of the most successful presidents in history -- and why America needs him now more than ever In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor...
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The Madness of Crowds: Some Modern Taboos

Douglas Murray - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover

The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals...
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall.Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing...
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Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump's Women

Nina Burleigh - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Nina Burleigh, explores Donald Trump's attitudes toward women by providing in-depth analysis and background on the women who have had the most profound influence on his life - the mother and grandmother who raised him,...
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted

Laura Caldwell - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity....
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis

Patrick Kingsley - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book

In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World...
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

Fred Kaplan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war - and Presidents' actions in nuclear crises - from Truman to Trump.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as "a rare...
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Stephen Kinzer - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s.The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer...
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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century

Jason DeParle - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas and her family in the Manila slums thirty...
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Unmasked: Big Media's War Against Trump

Brent Bozell - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover

"Brent Bozell and I have fought together in the trenches for many, many years. He's an indispensable warrior in the cause of liberty and against the arrogant elites in the press." -- Mark R. Levin, New York Times bestselling author "Objective journalism is dead. Today's...
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Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding the Plot to Unmake America

Michelle Malkin - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

You already know that we have an immigration crisis in America. You know that our southern border isn't a border at all - it's an open migrant highway. Now, in this gripping expos from #1 national bestselling author Michelle Malkin, you'll discover that the immigration crisis is no accident....
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An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago

Alex Kotlowitz - Anchor
Format: Hardcover

2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNER. From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicagos most turbulent neighborhoods.. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been...
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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

Mona Eltahawy - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid.Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud...
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Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change

STACEY ABRAMS - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover

Minority Leader is a guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider by Stacey Abrams, slated to become the first black female governor in the U. S. Networking, persistence, and hard work are the crucial ingredients to advancing a career, but for people like Stacey Abrams, and many...
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The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military

Tim Bakken - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A courageous and damning look at the destruction wrought by the arrogance, incompetence, and duplicity prevalent in the U.S. military-from the inside perspective of a West Point professor of law.Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity....
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Trump's Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining President Trump

COREY R LEWANDOWSKI - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie, the authors of the blockbuster, Let Trump Be Trump: the Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency, are back with their next New York Times bestseller. This book will reveal the heart of the hostile bureaucratic network that has been...
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The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: American Icon

Antonia Felix - Sterling
Format: Hardcover

On the 25th anniversary of her appointment to the Supreme Court, this unofficial pictorial retrospective celebrates and honors the barrier-breaking achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - the "Notorious RBG." Featuring a foreword by Mimi Leder, award-winning filmmaker and director...
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Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

Alexandra Natapoff - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminalsPunishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based...
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QAnon : an invitation to the Great Awakening

WWG1WGA. - Relentlessly Creative Books.
Format: Print book

This book is a field guide to an important chunk of reality thats been carefully hidden and wrongly discredited by the media. It reveals an extraordinary movement underway, a battle of epic proportions. Whether you know it or not, youre involved because the result of this battle will determine...
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash

Richard Lourie - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just...
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The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine

Yousef Bashir - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A Palestinian activist recalls his adolescence in Gaza during the Second Intifada, and how he made a strong commitment to peace in the face of devastating brutality in this moving, candid, and transformative memoir that reminds us of the importance of looking beyond prejudice, anger, and fear.Yousef...
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A Citizen's Guide to Impeachment

BARBARA RADNOFSKY - Melville House
Format: Paperback

Impeachment is based upon "those offences which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust ... as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself." - Alexander Hamilton A non-partisan...
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Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board

Vince Houghton - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

The International Spy Museum's Historian takes us on a wild tour of missions and schemes that almost happened, but were ultimately deemed too dangerous, expensive, ahead of their time, or even certifiably insaneIn 1958, the U.S. Air Force nuked the moon as a show of military force. In 1967,...
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Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

Joseph Matthews Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits. The rules for claiming Social Security benefits are changing. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government...
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Impeachment: An American History

Jeffrey A. Engel - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover

Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked - against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton - and explain what it means today.Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called...
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Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

Jeffrey Rosen - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty...
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose

Chris Wilson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The inspiring, instructive, and ultimately triumphant memoir of a man who used hard work and a Master Plan to turn a life sentence into a second chance.Growing up in a tough Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Chris Wilson was so afraid for his life he wouldn't leave the house without a gun....
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The Witches Are Coming

Lindy West - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era. THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.WE'RE WITCHES,AND WE'RE HUNTING YOU.From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations...
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

Brad Meltzer - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement...
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge - Bloomsbury Circus
Format: Hardcover

'This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential' Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-Winner 2015'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good ImmigrantA...
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

CHINA MIEVILLE - Verso
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed fantasy author China Miville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive...
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Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right

Anne Nelson - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The chilling story of the covert group that masterminds the Radical Right's ongoing assault on America's airwaves, schools, environment, and, ultimately, its democracy. In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals,...
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Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness

JENNIFER BERRY HAWES - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible...
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Reagan: An American Journey

Bob Spitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents,...
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KING OF SPIES

BLAINE HARDEN - Center Point

In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was repairing Jeeps on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three months' training, he was sent to Korea. Though he lacked the pedigree of most U. S. spies -- Nichols...
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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring

Richard Gergel - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America's civil rights historyOn February 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning, decorated African American veteran, was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, South Carolina, after he challenged the bus driver's...
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Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud

Tom Mueller - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"'Unauthorized disclosures' by whistleblowers are the lifeblood of a republic. As many of Mueller's fascinating cases show, misplaced loyalty--exclusively to a boss or an organization or a president--can be betrayal: of the health of consumers, of an oath to the Constitution,...
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How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi - One World
Format: Hardcover

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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How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning

George Lakey - Melville House
Format: Paperback

A lifetime of activist experience informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns --teaching us how to achieve real progressive change.Today's new direct action campaigns require a new, down-to-earth guide to effective campaigning. George Lakey's How...
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval N Harari - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal...
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Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another

Matt Taibbi
Format: Hardcover

Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling...
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The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America

Sarah van Gelder - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Print book

Discover the Real Revolution Unfolding across AmericaAmerica faces huge challenges - climate change, social injustice, racist violence, economic insecurity. Journalist Sarah van Gelder suspected that there were solutions, and she went looking for them, not in the centers of power, where...
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The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown

Julia Flynn Siler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first hundred years of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and an in-depth look at the "safe house" that became a refuge for those seeking their freedomBeginning...
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Stealing Green Mangoes: Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood

Sunil Dutta - Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A memoir - written in the wake of a cancer diagnosis - that zeroes in on the crux between two brothers: one who became an LAPD officer, and the other a terroristSunil Dutta is a twenty-year veteran of the LAPD. Before that, he was a biologist at the University of California and a translator...
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." -- Charles Kaiser, The Guardian A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once...
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools

VANESSA SIDDLE WALKER - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance of John Lewis's March trilogy, an ambitious and harrowing account of the devoted black educators who battled Southern school segregation and inequalityFor two years an aging Dr. Horace Tate - a former teacher,...
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

Rachel Maddow - Crown
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy - Winner Take All In 2010, the words "earthquake swarm" entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia - including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove - was sold...
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Our Dishonest President

Los Angeles Times (Firm) - Heyday
Format: Paperback

Weeks before Donald J. Trump reached his first hundred days in office, the Los Angeles Times's Editorial Board published the first of six consecutive denunciations calling him "Our Dishonest President." The paper's condemnation of Trump's lies, his authoritarian temperament,...
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

Emma Copley Eisenberg - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

A stunningly written investigation of the murder of two young women--showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were...
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Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History

Peter Houlahan - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

Norco '80 is a gripping true crime account of one of the most violent bank heists in US history. Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men -- led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian -- attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent...
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Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House

Tom LoBianco - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

MIKE PENCE: THE ULTIMATE POLITICAL SHAPE-SHIFTER"I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican . . . in that order." - Mike PenceAs the impeachment of President Donald Trump remains a constant topic of discussion in political circles, the questions around our current vice...
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Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

Preet Bharara - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching style, Preet Bharara...
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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops

Charles Campisi - Scribner
Format: Print book

This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau from...
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Native American Landmarks and Festivals: A Traveler's Guide to Indigenous United States and Canada

Yvonne Wakim Dennis - Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback

From ancient rock drawings, historic sites, and modern museums to eco- and cultural tourism, sports events and powwows, the Native American Landmarks and Festivals: A Traveler's Guide to Indigenous United States and Canada provides a fascinating tour of the rich heritage of Indigenous...
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From Russia With Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladamir Putin's Secret War on the West

Heidi Blake - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad-while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one,...
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation.The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional...
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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House

Cliff Sims - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.He soon found himself pulled into the President's...
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Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

Vicky Ward - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to powerJared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled Prince and Princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump's White House is unprecedented, unconstitutional, and dangerous....
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Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals

JEREMY MCCARTER - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, a stunning group portrait of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk...
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

Lynne Olson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother...
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Witch Hunt: The Plot to Destroy Trump and Undo His Election

Gregg Jarrett - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

The author of the number-one New York Times bestseller The Russia Hoax picks up where that book ended with this hard-hitting, well-reasoned examination of the latest findings about "collusion" between the Trump Administration and the Russians, offering further proof that Special...
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The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks

Bruce R Bartlett - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback

A lucid, practical, and concise guide for citizens who want to cut through the lies in this era of "fake news" and "alternative facts."As recent national events have proven, the floodgates have opened and the political terrain is shifting rapidly with the dangerous concept...
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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America

David Horowitz - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover

Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America - and the world.One of the nation's foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author,...
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Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus

LAURA KIPNIS - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn't empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality.Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis. Anyone who thinks the sexual...
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The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors

Charles Krauthammer - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical - including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about...
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice

Jessica Wilkerson - University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback

Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service....
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American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation

Holly Jackson - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists - free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes - and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era"In the tradition of Howard Zinn's people's histories, American Radicals reveals a forgotten...
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Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America

Mary Grabar - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in high school and college classrooms to teach students that American history is nothing...
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

KAMALA HARRIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth...
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The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution

ROGER STONE - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Theodore White's landmark books, the definitive look at how Donald J. Trump shocked the world to become president From Roger Stone, a New York Times bestselling author, longtime political adviser and friend to Donald Trump, and consummate Republican strategist, comes...
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A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.

ALVIN FELZENBERG - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A new understanding of the man who changed the face of American politics William F. Buckley Jr. is widely regarded as the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In this nuanced biography, Alvin Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects...
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Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger

Lilly Dancyger - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

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Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution

Peter Andreas - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"[A] luminous memoir" - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire here." - BOOKLIST (starred review) The intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts...
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Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power

Pekka Hämäläinen - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twentyfirst century. Pekka Hmlinen explores...
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Performing Revolutionary: Art, Action, Activism

Nicole Garneau - Intellect Ltd
Format: Paperback

The result of five years of practice-based creative research focused on Nicole Garneau's UPRISING project, Performing Revolutionary presents a number of methods for the creation of politically charged interactive public events in the style of a how-to guide. UPRISING, a series of public...
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Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law

James B. Stewart
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author James Stewart, the definitive story of the war between President Trump and America's principal law enforcement agencies, answering the questions that the Mueller report couldn't - or wouldn'tWhen Trump fired James Comey, he triggered the appointment of Robert...
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The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

Samantha Power - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer-Prize winner Samantha Power is widely known as the moral voice of her generation. A relentless advocate for promoting human rights, she has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy." The Education of an Idealist...
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"One of America's most important journalists" (The Washington Monthly) , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Making of Donald Trump, David Cay Johnston examines the Trump Administration's policies in its first one hundred...
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A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South

Robert W. Lee - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover

A descendant of Confederate General Robert E. Lee chronicles his story of growing up with the South's most honored name, and the moments that forced him to confront the privilege, racism, and subversion of human dignity that came with it. With a foreword by Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King. The Reverend...
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Madison Park: A Place of Hope

Eric L. Motley - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determination, hope, and unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he needed...
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The Mueller Report: The Final Report of the Special Counsel into Donald Trump, Russia, and Collusion

Robert S. Mueller III - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback

THE MARCH 26, 2019 PUBLICATION DATE IS A PLACEHOLDER. WE WILL PUBLISH OUR EDITION OF THE MUELLER REPORT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER IT IS RELEASED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.There has never been a more important political investigation than Robert S. Muller III's into...
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Guilty By Reason of Insanity: Why The Democrats Must Not Win

David Limbaugh - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The Democratic Party is now a party of leftist extremism -- radical to the point of insanity: socialist, anti-Christian, in favor of de facto infanticide, and opposed to the rule of law (when it does not suit their purposes, including on the border) . Best-sellling author David Limbaugh...
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation."- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon"[This] gripping account of the Troubles is equal parts true-crime,...
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