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Fighting Words
A Tale of How Liberals Created Neo-Conservatism
Thomas Dunne Books
How did a nice, liberal Jewish boy from the Bronx come to be called a conservative? Ben J. Wattenberg has been at the center of American ideas and events...
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Hero of the Underground
A Memoir
St. Martin's Press
I wasn’t afraid of death. How could I be? I lived under death’s shadow every day. When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of...
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The Man Who Forgot How to Read
A Memoir
Thomas Dunne Books
The remarkable journey of an award-winning writer struck with a rare and devastating affliction that prevented him from reading even his own writing One hot...
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Lawyer Boy
A Case Study on Growing Up
St. Martin's Press
After college, Rick Lax moved back into his parents’ house. The closest thing he had to a job was eating his parents’ food, sitting on his parents’ couch, and...
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Statecraft
And How to Restore America's Standing in the World
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In this wise and thought-provoking book, the renowned peace negotiator Dennis Ross shows that America’s current foreign policy problems stem from the Bush...
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Taken From Home
A Father, a Dark Secret, and a Brutal Murder
St. Martin's True Crime
Grand Junction, Colorado, 2001: When Michael Blagg’s adoring wife, Jennifer, and his six year-old-daughter, Abby, disappeared from their home, Michael led the...
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Green
Your Place in the New Energy Revolution
Palgrave Macmillan
Green illustrates and sheds new light on the gamut of issues associated with renewable energy, a topic whose importance increases exponentially with every...
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Letter to a New President
Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader
Thomas Dunne Books
A legendary Senator advises our next President on the commonsense values necessary to lead our nation United States Senator Robert C. Byrd is the...
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Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By in America
Holt Paperbacks
The bestselling, landmark work of undercover reportage, now updated Acclaimed as an instant classic upon publication, Nickel and Dimed has sold more than 1.5...
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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Picador
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges...
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The World Is Flat 3.0
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Picador
A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly...
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Sophie's World
A Novel About the History of Philosophy
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced,...
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This Land Is Their Land
Reports from a Divided Nation
Metropolitan Books
America in the ’aughts—hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as “the soul mate”* of...
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The Ice Man
Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
St. Martin's Griffin
Over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Top Mob Hitman. Devoted Family Man. Doting Father. For thirty years, Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski led a...
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Superclass
The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Each of them is one in a million. They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of...
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Deep Economy
The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Holt Paperbacks
“Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.”—Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest...
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The Darkest Night
Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town
St. Martin's True Crime
Casper, Wyoming:1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping,...
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Israel Lobby,” by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the...
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Law School Confidential, Revised
A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students
St. Martin's Griffin
Law School Confidential is written for students about to embark on this three-year odyssey by students who have successfully survived. It demystifies the...
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Army Wives
The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage
St. Martin's Griffin
Army Wives goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life to bring readers into the hearts and homes of today's military wives. Biank tells...
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Day of Reckoning
How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart
Thomas Dunne Books
WITH HIS INCISIVE MIND AND RAZOR-SHARP PEN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAT BUCHANAN TAKES ON THE GREATEST QUESTION FACING THE NATION: WILL THE AMERICA...
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We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Stories From Rwanda
Picador
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill...
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Five Families
The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
St. Martin's Griffin
For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damages to America’s...