Presents a revelatory account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special forces into competing covert paramilitary agencies responsible for the defeat of Osama bin Laden and other strategic war efforts, offering insight into...
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- Author:Mazzetti, MarkSummary:
- Author:Baxter, Jean RaeSummary:
This young adult historical novel focuses on Charlotte and her family, Loyalists who are forced to flee their home in the Mohawk Valley as a result of the violence of the “Sons of Liberty” during the American Revolution. At the...
- Author:O'Neill, RobertSummary:
Rob O'Neill and Dakota Meyer are two of the most decorated and recognized US service members: O'Neill killed the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, and Meyer was the first living Marine to receive the Medal of...
- Author:Wine-Banks, JillSummary:
This program includes a prologue and epilogue read by the author. Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor. It...
- Author:Wilkerson, IsabelSummary:
In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities,...
- Author:Hickey, Donald R.Summary:
Hickey explores the anti-war rioting in Baltimore; the pre-war skirmish between the Chesapeake and the H.M.S. Leopold; the cruise of the U.S.S. Essex in the Pacific; the attempted invasion and annexation of Canada; the battles with the...
- Author:Fishman, CharlesSummary:
Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest company--it is the largest company in the history of the world. It is estimated that the company's low prices save American consumers $10 billion a year--but the #1 employer in 37 states has...
- Author:Klinkowitz, JeromeSummary:
Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome...
- Author:Freedman, RussellSummary:
In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights.
- Author:Koontz, DeanSummary:
A clairvoyant is able to foresee murders, but she is not able to prevent them. She comes up against a new power, a Power much stronger than hers, which wants her dead, to kill her before she can identify it.
- Author:Kendzior, SarahSummary:
From the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory. "A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly...
- Author:Bennett, BritSummary:
#1 New York Times bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year. One of Time Magazine’s Top Ten Books of the Year. Longlisted for the National Book Award. Longlisted for the Aspen...
- Author:Brockmann, SuzanneSummary:
After a near-fatal head injury, Navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti spies an international terrorist in his hometown. In a desperate attempt to prevent disaster, he creates his own makeshift counterterrorist team, which includes Dr. Kelly...
- Author:Kahn, Ashley, Miller, Hal, Santana, CarlosSummary:
From growing up dirt poor in Mexico to becoming a lowly dishwasher in the US and finally a person you might almost think is perpetually in a state of nirvana, this is the story of a truly fascinating man.
- Author:Farley, Audrey ClareSummary:
As American women began to reject Victorian propriety, authorities feared that "oversexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects. In 1934, aided by a eugenics law, socialite Maryon...
- Author:Villavicencio, Karla CornejoSummary:
National Book Award finalist • One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation. “Karla’s...
- Author:Weiss, Martin D.Summary:
This examines investments and health care, proposing ways to protect and increase a financial portfolio through careful observations and decisions. Weiss offers five main lessons to better understand the stock market: watch for hidden...
- Author:Rosswood, EricSummary:
Jam packed with parenting tips and advice to help you build confidence and become the awesome gay dad you were meant to be.
- Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:
Just as young surveyor Warren Neale discovers graft and corruption in the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming, his fiancee Allie is kidnapped by ruffians.
- Author:Cole, Olivia A.Summary:
Shania never thinks much about being white. But after her beloved grandmother passes, she moves to the gentrifying town of Blue Rock and is thrust into Bard, the city's wealthiest private school. At Bard, race is both invisible and...
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