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Estate Planning Basics

Denis Clifford Attorney - NOLO; Eleventh edition
Format: Paperback

This book provides concise, straightforward, and easy to read information about the major components of estate planning - without going into endless detail about arcane options that apply only to the wealthy. Topics include: Why you need one, how to make one, and when having just a will...
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Troop 6000: How a Group of Homeless Girl Scouts Inspired the World

Stewart, Nikita - BALLANTINE BOOKS

The extraordinary true story of the first Girl Scout troop designated for homeless girls--from the homeless families it brought together in Queens, New York, to the amazing citywide and countrywide responses it sparked. Giselle Burgess, a young mother of five, and her children, along with...
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Back in the Game: The Majority Whip's Remarkable Fight for His Life

Steve Scalise - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

Back in the Game is the inspiring story of how a massive political assassination at baseball practice for Republican members of Congress was narrowly avoided, and how the Majority Whip fought his way back to the People's House. On the morning of June 14, 2017, at a practice field...
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Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt

Phoebe Zerwick - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one remarkable life that sheds vitally important light on the failures of the American justice system at every levelIn June 1985, a young Black...
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The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency

John Dickerson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

"The office is kinda like the little country boy found a hoochie coochie show at the carnival. Once he paid his dime and got inside the tent: it ain't exactly as it was advertised."--Lyndon JohnsonImagine you have just been elected president. You are now commander-in-chief,...
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Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We Love

Newt Gingrich - Center Street; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Hardcover


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The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness

Katie Booth
Format: Hardcover

We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even...
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The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency

David M. Rubenstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein - David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the US presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack...
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"Extraordinary... a profound reflection on one of the great paradoxes of American life - and a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit." - Patrick Radden Keefe "A searing, gut-wrenching, and masterfully reported account." - Jill Lepore. An epic,...
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The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible

LUKE MOGELSON - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accelerating civic breakdown, in an indelible eyewitness narrative of startling explanatory powerAfter years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home...
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