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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

Joe Biden - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what...
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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation

- Viking
Format: Hardcover

From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet--and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream....
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So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling...
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Last Hope Island : Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war

Lynne Olson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days When the Nazi...
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Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever

PATRICK J BUCHANAN - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan - speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon - tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural...
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The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation

Michael Breen - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture...
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Dangerous

Milo Yiannopoulos - Dangerous Books
Format: Audiobook

The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere.
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A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

Ann Wolbert Burgess
Format: Hardcover

Lurking beneath the progressive activism and sex positivity in the 1970-80s, a dark undercurrent of violence rippled across the American landscape. With reported cases of sexual assault and homicide on the rise, the FBI created a specialized team - the "Mindhunters" better known...
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When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History

Hugh Ryan - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The never-before-told story of Brooklyn's vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day. "A romantic, exquisite history of gay culture." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred"A monumental achievement." -- Ira Sachs, filmmakerHugh Ryan's...
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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us

Joseph J Ellis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history...
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