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Inside ISIS: The Brutal Rise of a Terrorist Army

Benjamin Hall - Center Street; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A year ago, few people had heard of ISIS-- today, they are a major terrorist threat. Despite numerous warnings from intelligence services, ISIS's rise to power has left countries around the world floundering for solutions. Today, we face a threat that is more violent, powerful and financially...
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels
Format: Hardcover

A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy - from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice,...
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Lenin on the Train

Catherine Merridale - Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future...
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The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution

David A Kaplan - Crown
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government - and how we've...
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An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago

Alex Kotlowitz - Anchor
Format: Hardcover

2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNER. From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicagos most turbulent neighborhoods.. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been...
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Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

Jamie Raskin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life - and his family's - as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation's Capitol,...
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

Robert M. Edsel - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate"...
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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us

Joseph J Ellis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history...
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Game of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy

Doug Wead - Center Street
Format: Print book

Here is the first, insider, account of the precipitous fall of Hillary Clinton. How the scandals of a lifetime finally reached critical mass. How, in the last few days of the campaign, some on her staff saw the ghostly shroud of defeat creeping over them but were helpless to act, frozen...
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Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

Bill O'Reilly - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001.As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought...
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