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Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

Ric Prado - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era.Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro...
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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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Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

Moira Weigel - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book

Does anyone date anymore? Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and romance in modern America, she discovers that authorities have always said this. Ever since young men and women started to go out together, older...
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The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success

ALBERT-LASZLO BARABASI - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In this pioneering examination of the scientific principles behind success, a leading researcher reveals the surprising ways in which we can turn achievement into success.Too often, accomplishment does not equate to success. We did the work but didn't get the promotion; we played hard but weren't...
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Gut Check: Unleash The Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health

Steven R. Gundry MD - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

In this groundbreaking addition to his New York Times bestselling Plant Paradox series, Steven R.Gundry, MD offers a definitive guide to the gut biome and its control over its home - us! - revealing the unimaginably complex and intelligent ecosystem controlling our health and teaching us how to heal...
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Bush

Jean Edward Smith - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious...
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Garden Allies: Discover the Many Ways Insects, Birds, and Other Animals Keep Your Garden Beautiful and Thriving

Frederique Lavoipierre
Format: Paperback

The birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects that inhabit our yards and gardens are overwhelmingly on our side - they are not our enemies, but instead our allies. They pollinate our flowers and vegetable crops, and they keep pests in check. In Garden Allies, Frdrique Lavoipierre shares fascinating...
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Tangled Up In You (Meant To Be)

Christina Lauren - Hyperion Avenue
Format: Hardcover

A witty and deeply romantic modern reimagining of Disney's Tangled, by the New York Times bestselling author duo Christina Lauren, part of the acclaimed and bestselling Meant to Be collection. She has a dream. He has a plan. Together they'll take a leap of faith. Ren has never...
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I.M.: A Memoir

Isaac Mizrahi - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Isaac Mizrahi is sui generis. Designer. Cabaret singer. Talk show host. He's a pop culture icon unlike any fashion designer of recent memory, just as likely to be recognized walking down Main Street USA as Madison Avenue NYC. Yet ever since he shot to fame in the 1980s, the private Isaac...
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Separated

Jacob Soboroff - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff, winner of the 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for his reporting on the child separation crisis, delivers a profoundly personal and moving report from the border and beyond, revealing the wrenching human story behind one of the most disturbing...
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