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ISIS: The State of Terror
Jessica Stern - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated... |
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Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality
David Boies - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on Proposition 8 - by the two lawyers who argued the case On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's... |
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION | FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION | FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The... |
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
T R REID - PENGUIN Books
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special interest... |
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The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
David Callahan - Knopf
Format: Book
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While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and the ways they are converting the fortunes of a second... |
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Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
Debora L. Spar - Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Debora L. Spar spent most of her life avoiding feminism. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed that the gender war was over. “We thought we could glide into the new era with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow,” she writes. “We were wrong.”Spar... |
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Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama
Stephen Sestanovich - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From a writer with long and high-level experience in the U.S. government, a startling and provocative assessment of America's global dominance. Maximalist puts the history of our foreign policy in an unexpected new light, while drawing fresh, compelling lessons for the present and future.... |
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane
ANONYMOUS. - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive.... |
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.
Nicholson Baker - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best... |
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
John Grisham - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's,... |
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild - New Press
Format: Print book
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2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTIONA 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election"This is a smart,... |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book."... |
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Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto
Matt Kibbe - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In this essential manifesto of the new libertarian movement, New York Times bestselling author and president of FreedomWorks Matt Kibbe makes a stand for individual liberty and shows us what we must do to preserve our freedom.Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff is a rational... |
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The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea
Paul Ryan - Grand Central Pub
Format: Hardcover
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From the intellectual leader of the Republican party, an unvarnished look into the state of the conservative movement today and a clear plan for what needs to be done to save the American Idea.THE WAY FORWARD challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond,... |
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Living Mindfully: At Home, at Work, and in the World
Deborah Schoeberlein David - Wisdom
Format: Print book
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Learn to live a life that's good--for yourself and for the world.Like a wise friend or kind teacher, Deborah Schoeberlein David--educator, meditator, and mother--walks you through a complete, easy-to-follow curriculum of mindfulness practice. Beginning with the very basics of noticing... |
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World Order
Henry Kissinger - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Walter Isaacson, Time:"Dazzling and instructive... [a] magisterial new book."Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern... |
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American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
Marco Rubio - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Dear Friends, My parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers,... |
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Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
Carolina De Robertis - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Radical Hope is a collection of letters - to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged - written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical... |
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Ben Carson - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation's... |
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Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
Cass R. Sunstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The nation's most-cited legal scholar who for decades has been at the forefront of applied behavioral economics, and the bestselling author of Nudge and Simpler, Cass Sunstein is one of the world's most innovative thinkers in the academy and the world of practical politics.... |
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Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
Virginia Heffernan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television, Virginia Heffernan (called one of the "best living writers of English prose") reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet.Since its inception, the Internet has morphed from merely an extension... |
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Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy
Jennifer Grayson - Harper
Format: Print book
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Since the rise of artificial formula, we have turned a biological process into a never-ending controversy: A mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son on the cover of Time magazine sets off a firestorm. Facebook takes down photos of women nursing, citing the content as "offensive."... |
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Far and Away: Reports from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years
Andrew Solomon - Scribner Book Company
Format: Print book
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From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics' Circle Award - and one of the most original thinkers of our time - a riveting collection of essays about places in dramatic transition.Far and Away collects Andrew Solomon's writings about places undergoing... |
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Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics
Richard Shenkman - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Format: Print book
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Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman explains in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. Drawing on science,... |
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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly... |
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Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth
Michael Savage - Center Street; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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In his trademark in-your-face style, bestselling author and top conservative talk-show host, Michael Savage has a lot to say about the state of the country in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR. According to Michael Savage, OUR NATION IS IN REAL TROUBLE and the seeds of a second conflagration have... |
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Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America
Donald Trump - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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In this book (previously published as Crippled America) , were going to look at the state of the world right now. Its a terrible mess, and thats putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC, are directly responsible... |
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
Ruchir Sharma - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change. Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks... |
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Jimmy Carter - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths.... |
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Jon Krakauer - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From best-selling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana - stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape. Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with... |
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While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era
Russ Feingold - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Former senator Russ Feingold looks at institutional failures, both domestic and abroad, since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and proposes steps to be taken - by the government and by individuals - to ensure that the next ten years are focused on solving the international problems that threaten... |
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Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
Ted Koppel - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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In this New York Times bestselling investigation, Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America's power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared. Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks... |
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Club Programs for Teens: 100 Activities for the Entire Year
Amy J. Alessio - Amer Library Assn
Format: Print book
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Want to keep the momentum going after a successful teen event? That one off can easily be turned into a popular monthly club that will keep young adults coming back. Alessio, co-author of the bestsellers A Year of Programs for Teens and A Year of Programs for Teens 2, and Booth, co-editor... |
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Creative, Successful, Dyslexic: 23 High Achievers Share Their Stories
Margaret Rooke - Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016.
Format: eBook
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23 very well-known people from the arts, sport, and business worlds talk about how dyslexia affected their childhood, how they were able to overcome the challenges and use the special strengths of dyslexia to achieve great success in adulthood. Darcey Bussell CBE, Eddie Izzard, Sir Richard... |
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
Anonymous. - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,... |
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Year of Programs for Millennials and More
Amy J Alessio - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Print book
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Needless to say, programming for teens can be a dubious fit for library users in their 20s; and what appeals to Baby Boomers isn't necessarily ideal for those in their 30s and 40s. Millennials deserve their own programs. This handy guide specifically targets those on the cusp of the born-digital... |
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National Geographic People of the World: Cultures and Traditions, Ancestry and Identity
Catherine Herbert Howell - National Geographic Soc
Format: Print book
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From the heart of National Geographic comes this expansive guide to the clans, tribes, ethnicities, and peoples of the world. Organized in keeping with our knowledge of the migration of human groups through history, with statistics and a cultural portrait of each ethnic group, the book... |
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Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
Henry M Paulson - Twelve, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER"DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism. " Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson... |
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45: A Portrait of My Knucklehead Brother Jeb
Scott Dikkers - Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
Format: Print book
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An irreverent take on the national bestseller 41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush, 45 is a no-holds-barred tell-all written in the voice of former president George W. Bush as he stumps for his brother Jeb--perhaps doing more harm than good. In 45: A Portrait of My Knucklehead... |
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Jonathan Chait - Custom House
Format: Print book
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"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from... |
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