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Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

Roberto Lovato - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Gripping and beautiful. With the artistry of a poet and the intensity of a revolutionary, Lovato untangles the tightly knit skein of love and terror that connects El Salvador and the United States." - Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes and Nickel and DimedAn urgent,...
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race

Nicole Perlroth - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break in and scamper through the world's computer networks invisibly until discovered. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to tap into any iPhone, dismantle safety controls at a chemical plant,...
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

JON MEACHAM - Random House
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * The...
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Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America

Ryan Busse - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

As an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and conservationist-all things that the firearms industry was built on-Ryan Busse chased a childhood dream and built a successful career selling millions of firearms for one of America's most popular gun companies.But blinded by the promise of massive...
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Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness

Stephanie Schroeder - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Headcase is a groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and artistic representations illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, illness, and LGBTQ identity, as well as the lasting impact of historical views equating queer and trans identity with mental illness. The pieces...
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The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assassination of a CIA Agent

Michael Pullara - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The shocking true story of international intrigue involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow.On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence...
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JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

Fredrik Logevall - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president. By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power...
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

JOANNE FREEMAN - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil WarIn The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol...
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I've Got Your Back: The Indispensable Guide to Stopping Harassment When You See It

Jorge Arteaga - ?Abrams Image
Format: Paperback

Hollaback!'s accessible and engaging step-by-step instructional guide to safe and effective bystander interventionBystander intervention is simply overcoming that "freeze" instinct and getting back to the very human desire to take care of one another. It's not about being...
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Surviving Autocracy

Masha Gessen - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyA bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability...
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