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The RBG Way: The Secrets of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Success

Rebecca Gibian - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

Understanding and applying the wisdom of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg! Given her incredible tenure as a Supreme Court justice as well as her monumental impact on the modern women's rights movement, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become one of the most prominent political leaders of today. To complement...
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Stealing Green Mangoes: Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood

Sunil Dutta - Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A memoir - written in the wake of a cancer diagnosis - that zeroes in on the crux between two brothers: one who became an LAPD officer, and the other a terroristSunil Dutta is a twenty-year veteran of the LAPD. Before that, he was a biologist at the University of California and a translator...
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The Ark of Taste: Delicious and Distinctive Foods That Define the United States

David S Shields - Voracious
Format: Hardcover

Explore the heritage foods that give the United States its culinary identity, in this visual encyclopedia for curious eaters and gardeners.. The Ark of Taste is a living catalog of our nation's food heritage preserving treasures passed down for generations - some rare, some endangered,...
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The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump

Alexander Ward - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of Biden's foreign policy team and their struggle to restore America's global influence in the aftermath of Trump When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency, he brought with him a team of all-star talent, perhaps the most experienced ensemble of policy...
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Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the "Pill Mill Killer"

PHILIP EIL - Steerforth
Format: Hardcover

An obsessive true crime investigation of a bizarre and unlikely perpetrator, who's serving the opioid epidemic's longest term for illegal prescriptions - four life sentences Written in the tradition of I'll Be Gone in the Dark and True Crime Addict, combining Dopesick's...
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The Future of Terrorism: ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Alt-Right

Walter Laqueur - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

An expert on terrorism and an expert on counterterrorism answer the two questions everyone is asking about the rise of terrorism today: why is this happening, and when will it end?Since the death of bin Laden in 2011, ISIS has risen, al-Qaeda has expanded its reach, and right-wing extremists...
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U.S. Immigration Made Easy

Ilona Bray J.D.
Format: Twentieth Edition

Written by immigration attorneys, U.S. Immigration Made Easy is the most compact yet complete resource available to help laypeople and legal professionals learn who is eligible to come to the U.S. on a permanent or temporary basis and how to do so. The book demystifies the law, government...
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The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy

Brian P Klaas - Hot Books
Format: Paperback

An ex-US campaign advisor who has sat with the world's dictators explains Donald Trump's increasingly authoritarian tactics and the threat they pose to American democracy. Donald Trump isn't a despot. But he is increasingly acting like The Despot's Apprentice, an understudy...
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The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

Bernard Regan - Verso
Format: Hardcover

The true history of the imperial deal that transformed the Middle East and sealed the fate of PalestineOn November 2, 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared that they were in favor of "the establishment in Palestine of a national home...
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The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11

David Loyn - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

David Loyn's The Long War tells the story of eight Generals (seven American, one British) who led the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan -- a high profile, complex role. Generals including David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, Joe Dunford and John Allen talk about their command...
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