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So Here's the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut

Alyssa Mastromonaco - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? comes a fun, frank book of reflections, essays, and interviews on topics important to young women, ranging from politics and career to motherhood, sisterhood, and making and sustaining relationships...
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A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror

Larry Schweikart - Sentinel Trade; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots...
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The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle against ISIS

Margaret Coker
Format: Hardcover

From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS. The Spymaster of Baghdad tells the dramatic yet intimate account of how a covert Iraqi intelligence unit called "the Falcons"...
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash

Richard Lourie - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just...
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Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people

Tracy Kidder - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston's homeless community - by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains"I couldn't put Rough Sleepers down. I am left...
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

Carol Anderson - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second...
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This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

Kim Gordon - ?Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinéad Gleeson, a powerful collection by award-winning female creators, writing about the female artists that matter to them and their own personal experiences.This book is for and about the women who kicked in doors, as pioneers...
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Trump / Russia: The Corruption of a Dealmaker and the Takeover of the White House

SETH HETTENA - Melville House
Format: Hardcover

In the model of David Cay Johnston's MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP, a shocking examination by an acclaimed investigative journalist of the history of collusion between Russia and the President of the United States.Is Donald Trump the most corrupt president in American history? A celebrated investigative...
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Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq

Melvyn P. Leffler - ?Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003--an outcome that was in no way predetermined. America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era. Nearly two decades after the event,...
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Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening?and Our Best Hope

Jedediah Purdy - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

One of the country's most astute legal scholars explains how American political culture disempowers ordinary citizens and makes the case for a reinvigorated democracy Americans across the political spectrum agree that our democracy is in crisis. We view our political opponents with...
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