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After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom

Alice Marie Johnson - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Foreword by Kim Kardashian WestThe true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking was commuted by President Donald Trump thanks to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West - an inspiring memoir of faith, hope, mercy, and gratitude.How do you hold on to hope...
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Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud

Tom Mueller - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"'Unauthorized disclosures' by whistleblowers are the lifeblood of a republic. As many of Mueller's fascinating cases show, misplaced loyalty--exclusively to a boss or an organization or a president--can be betrayal: of the health of consumers, of an oath to the Constitution,...
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This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism

Don Lemon - Little, Brown & Company
Format: Hardcover

In this "vital book for these times" (Kirkus Reviews) , Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to todays most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than...
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Obama: An Oral History

Brian Abrams - Little A
Format: Hardcover

The first ever comprehensive oral history of President Obama's administration and the complex political machine that created and powered a landmark American presidency.In this candid oral history of a presidential tenure, author Brian Abrams reveals the behind-the-scenes stories that illuminate...
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Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever

RICK WILSON - Free Press
Format: Hardcover

A respected, long-time Republican strategist, ad-maker, and contributor for The Daily Beast, skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism.In Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator...
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The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

Craig Whitlock - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: to defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power,...
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Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department

Geoffrey Berman - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump's Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining - in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired. I walked this tightrope for two and a half years. Eventually, the rope snapped."...
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Messing with the Enemy

CLINT WATTS - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become the cutting edge of modern warfare - and how we can protect ourselves and our country against...
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Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

MAGGIE HABERMAN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"This is the book Trump fears most." - AxiosFrom the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York...
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Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch

David Mamet
Format: Hardcover

The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates. In RECESSIONAL he calls out, skewers, mocks, and, most importantly, dissects the virus of conformity which is now an existential...
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