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Eating Dangerously: Why the Government Cant Keep Your Food Safe…and How You Can

Michael Booth - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook

Americans are afraid of their food. And for good reason. In 2011, the deadliest food-borne illness outbreak in a century delivered killer listeria bacteria on innocuous cantaloupe never before suspected of carrying that pathogen. Nearly 50 million Americans will get food poisoning this...
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The Fangirls Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

Sam Maggs - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover

From notable geek girl Sam Maggs, The Fangirls Guide to the Universe is the ultimate handbook for teens living the nerdy life. . Fandom, pop culture, feminism, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more - theres never been a better time to be a fangirl,...
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy

David A Nichols - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch...
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Bruce Schneier - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

You are under surveillance right now.Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends....
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Walking Prey: How America's Youth Are Vulnerable to Sex Slavery

Holly Austin Smith - Palgrave MacMillan
Format: Hardcover

Today, two cultural forces are converging to make America's youth easy targets for sex traffickers. Younger and younger girls are engaging in adult sexual attitudes and practices, and the pressure to conform means thousands have little self-worth and are vulnerable to exploitation....
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On Immunity: An Inoculation

Eula Biss - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best SellerA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the YearA Facebook Year of Books SelectionOne of the Best Books of the Year National Book Critics Circle Award finalist The New York Times Book Review Top 10 Entertainment...
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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

Nicholas Thompson - Henry Holt
Format: Print book

A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era - written by the grandson of one of themOnly two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning...
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Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence

Gabrielle Giffords - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords-- disabled from an assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona-- and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership and more responsible gun control laws, despite being gun owners and staunch supporters...
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@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex

Shane Harris - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A surprising, page-turning account of how the wars of the future are already being fought today
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Still Missing: Rethinking the D.B. Cooper Case and Other Mysterious Unsolved Disappearances

Ross Richardson - Terra Mysteria Media
Format: Print book

What do a mild mannered grocery store manager and the infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper have in common? How can an entire aircraft and its two occupants just vanish into thin air while flying over populated land? What happened to an old freighter that keeps it hidden for nearly a century,...
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The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times

A. C. Grayling - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections such as The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, collecting Grayling's...
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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace

Danielle Keats Citron - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Most Internet users are familiar with trolling -- aggressive, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site's comments. Less familiar but far more serious is the way some use networked technologies to target real people, subjecting them, by name and address, to vicious,...
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By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

Charles Murray
Format: Book

The American way of life, built on individual liberty and limited government, is on life support.American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul...
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Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World

Katherine Zoepf - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. There...
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The Sociology Book

Christopher Thorpe - DK Publishing
Format: Print book

The Sociology Book takes on some of humankind's biggest questions: What is society? What makes it tick? Why do we interact in the way that we do with our friends, coworkers, and rivals? The Sociology Book profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their...
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The Politics Book

DK Publishing - DK ADULT
Format: Hardcover

From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and more The Politics Book clearly and simply...
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Growing Up in the Care of Strangers: The Experiences, Insights and Recommendations of Eleven Former Foster Kids

Waln K Brown - William Gladden Foundation Press
Format: Book

Growing up in placement takes a toll, not just on the children in the foster care system but also on the professionals charged with their care. They all make critical decisions that can affect a child's life forever ... which is why this book plays a valuable role in foster care training....
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

Chris Whipple - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president...
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Adults Just Wanna Have Fun: Programs for Emerging Adults

Audrey Barbakoff - ALA Editions
Format: Print book

There are a wealth of resources out there geared towards serving the needs of toddlers, school age children, young adults, and senior citizens. But something's missing. Library users in their 20s and 30s constitute one of the most underserved populations for public libraries, and there's...
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ISIS: The State of Terror

Jessica Stern - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

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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Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

Ted Koppel - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book

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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Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes: Decoding the Jargon, Slang, and Bluster of American Political Speech

Chuck McCutcheon - Foredge
Format: Book

To the amusement of the pundits and the regret of the electorate, our modern political jargon has become even more brazenly two-faced and obfuscatory than ever. Where once we had Muckrakers, now we have Bed-Wetters. Where Blue Dogs once slept peaceably in the sun, Attack Dogs now roam the land....
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The Librarian's Nitty-Gritty Guide to Social Media

Laura Solomon - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback

The vast array of social media options present a challenge to today's busy librarians: it's tough to keep current, let alone formulate a plan for using these tools effectively. Solomon, a librarian with extensive experience in web development, design, and technology, cuts to the chase...
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Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

P J O'Rourke - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book

P.J. O'Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humorists. But that career almost didn't happen. As he tells it, "I began to write for pay in the spring of 1970. To tell the truth I didn't even mean to be a writer, I meant to be a race car driver, but I didn't...
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Guns across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights

Robert Spitzer - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third rail, never to be questioned. Gun rights supporters wear tri-cornered hats, wave the stars and stripes, and ask what would have happened if the revolutionaries had been unarmed when the British...
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane

ANONYMOUS. - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book

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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The Undocumented Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn - Regnery Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Hes brash, brilliant, and drawn to controversy like a moth to a flame. For decades, Mark Steyn has dazzled readers around the world with his raucous wit and brutal honesty. Whether hes sounding off on the tyranny of political correctness, the existential threat of Islamic extremism, the nationalization...
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The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

Ronald Brownstein - Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's most respected political commentators, an epic, shrewd, and important big-picture analysis of the forces that have made this era in American politics as divisive and bitterly partisan as any since the Civil War. Few don't appreciate that in recent years American...
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Cyberphobia : identity, trust, security and the Internet

Edward Lucas - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

Cybercrime is increasingly in the news. Stories about weaknesses in cybersecurity like the "Heartbleed" leak, or malicious software on the cash registers at your local Target have become alarmingly common. Even more alarming is the sheer number of victims associated with these...
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America: Imagine a World without Her

Dinesh D'Souza - Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh...
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War

James Bradley - Little, Brown and Co.
Format: Print book

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included...
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The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future

Frank Browning - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

Frank Browning takes us into human gender geographies around the world, from gender-neutral kindergartens in Chicago and Oslo to femminielli weather casters in Naples, from conservative Catholics in Paris fearful of God and Nature to transsexual Mormon parents in Utah. As he shares specific...
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We Interrupt This Broadcast: Relive the Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg to the Death of Princess Diana (book with 2 audio CDs)

Joe Garner - Sourcebooks Inc; Har/Com edition
Format: Hardcover

This stunning book/CD combination features the famous and infamous moments of the 20th century as announced in actual news broadcasts. The words and images that define these 47 history-changing events have forever etched these moments in our minds. 150 photos & 50 duotone photos.
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis

Patrick Kingsley - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book

In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World...
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoglu - Crown Business; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what...
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

Anonymous. - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

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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Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution

John Paul Stevens - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

For the first time ever, a retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change. By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more...
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The Little Free Library Book

Margret Aldrich - Coffee House Press
Format: Hardcover

"The Little Free Library is a terrific example of placing books - poetry included - within reach of people in the course of their everyday lives. Free is always a good thing, and the project has a nice give-and-take feel to it. Here's hoping we bump into literature when we turn the next...
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The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State

John Micklethwait - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-stateDysfunctional government: It's become a clich, and most of us are resigned to the fact that...
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Orphans of the Living: Stories of America's Children in Foster Care

Jennifer Toth - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

In an eye-opening look at how America cares for its abused and neglected children, Jennifer Toth travels to foster-care homes, orphanages, and juvenile detention centers to record the poignant, often heroic voices of youngsters trying to survive in an overburdened system.Jennifer Toth's...
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PTSD and Service Dogs: A Training Guide for Sufferers

Rick Dillender - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book

"PTSD and Service Dogs: A Training Guide for Sufferers" is a comprehensive training manual about how to apply a Service Dog as an intervention and daily maintenance tool for managing chronic PTSD. It includes a review of the symptoms and issues of PTSD as well as a comprehensive...
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Understanding Trump

Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

With this book, Newt Gingrich provides insight and inspiration for Americans as they embrace their new president in office. Donald Trump is a remarkable phenomenon. He is the only person ever elected president without holding office or serving as a general. Trump and "Trumpism "...
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Unsolved Crimes

Time-Life Books. - Time-Life Books
Format: Book

An account of major unsolved crimes.
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"A Disgrace to the Profession"

Mark Steyn - Stockade Books, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book

The "hockey stick" graph of global temperatures is the single most influential icon in the global-warming debate, promoted by the UN's transnational climate bureaucracy, featured in Al Gore's Oscar-winning movie, used by governments around the world to sell the Kyoto Accord...
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Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

Joseph Matthews - Nolo
Format: Print book

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits. If you want to get the highest possible retirement or pension income - not to mention the best medical coverage, turn to Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions to discover the benefits you're entitled...
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Plunder and deceit : big government's exploitation of young people and the future

Mark R Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book

In each of his astounding #1 New York Times bestsellers, Mark R. Levin's overlying patriotic mission has been to avert a devastating tragedy: The loss of the greatest republic known to mankind. But who stands to lose the most?In modern America, the civil society is being steadily...
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Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement & Medical Benefits

Joseph Matthews Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits Everyone wants the highest possible retirement and pension income, not to mention the best medical coverage. Find out what you're entitled to with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions - completely...
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