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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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Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

Kate Brown - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A chilling expos of the international effort to minimize the health and environmental consequences of nuclear radiation in the wake of Chernobyl.Dear Comrades! Since the accident at the Chernobyl power plant, there has been a detailed analysis of the radioactivity of the food and territory...
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The Luckiest Guy in the World: My Journey in Politics

Robert Abrams
Format: Hardcover

The Remarkable True Story of Robert Abrams, the man who changed the New York Attorney General's Office for Good. At the heart of this political memoir is the story of how the office of state attorney general, an historically sleepy backwater post, has evolved into a front line major...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

ROBERT DALLEK - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biography of one of our greatest presidents...
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

KAMALA HARRIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth...
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A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South

Ben Montgomery
Format: Hardcover

After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County, Kentucky. Half carried rifles and shotguns, and a few tucked pistols in their pants. Their target was George Dinning, a freed slave...
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Standing Up to Goliath: Battling State and National Teachers' Unions for the Heart and Soul of Our Kids and Country

Rebecca Friedrichs - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover

Rebecca Friedrichs tells real-life stories that expose state and national teachers' unions as the money and muscle behind the degradation of America's schools and culture.In a book that's both accessible and enlightening, Rebecca Friedrichs recounts her thirty-year odyssey as an elementary...
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

Jonathan M. Metzl - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to helpIn the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as Dying of Whiteness...
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The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America

Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep researchReaders around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bill...
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Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F

Joe Pappalardo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The explosive and bloody true history of Texas Rangers Company F, made up of hard men who risked their lives to bring justice to a lawless frontier.Between 1886 and 1888, Sergeant James Brooks, of Texas Ranger Company F, was engaged in three fatal gunfights, endured disfiguring bullet wounds,...
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