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Political Prisoner: Persecuted, Prosecuted, but Not Silenced

Paul Manafort
Format: Hardcover

A riveting account of the HOAX that sent a presidential campaign chairman to solitary confinement because he wouldn't turn against the President of the United States. The chief weapon deployed by the government-corporate-media Establishment against the Trump presidency was propaganda.Time...
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Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War

Martin Sixsmith - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover

An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War.. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced...
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Love Across Borders: Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World

Anna Lekas Miller - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"A book designed to change minds and hearts. What are we fighting for, after all, if not a world where love can be truly free?" - Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble We are told that love conquers all, but what happens when you don't...
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Broke: Patients Talk about Money with Their Doctor

Michael Stein - The University of North Carolina Press; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

In this age of shortened office visits, doctors take care of their patients' immediate needs and often elide their own personal histories. But as reflected in Broke, Michael Stein takes the time to listen to the experiences of his patients whose financial challenges complicate every...
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Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad

John O. Brennan - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan's alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would be routine. That day marked his first and only security briefing with President-elect Donald Trump. And it was also the day John Brennan said...
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The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It

John Micklethwait - HarperVia
Format: Hardcover

An urgent and informed look at the challenges America and world governments will face in a post Covid-19 world.The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying. A few governments proved adept at handling...
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Sonia Purnell - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Excellent ... This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down." -- The New York Times Book Review"A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people -- and a little...
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The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

Jonathan Cohn
Format: Hardcover

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) , better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation to become law in modern American history. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another, for better or worse, and it continues to cost people...
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The Nature of Conspiracy Theories

Michael Butter - Polity; 1st edition
Format: 1st Edition

Conspiracy theories seem to be proliferating today. Long relegated to a niche existence, conspiracy theories are now pervasive, and older conspiracy theories have been joined by a constant stream of new ones - that the USA carried out the 9/11 attacks itself, that the Ukrainian crisis was orchestrated...
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When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia

Robert Carmichael - Robinson
Format: Hardcover

'As moving as it is well researched. Robert Carmichael's sharp prose and depth of knowledge of Cambodia's history transforms a daughter's search for her missing father into a nation's journey to find peace and reconciliation with its brutal history of genocide.'...
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