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The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America

by Douglas Schoen, Michael Rowan

Published: 2009-01-06

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A chilling account of Hugo Chávez's shadow war on the United States The American government has shrugged off South American politics for nearly forty years. In the meantime, our neighbor to the south has grown into an unprecedented threat. Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezu...

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Salvage

by Alexandra Duncan

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 544 pages

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Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and tho...

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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik | Summary & Highlights

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Published: 2016-01-22

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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik | Summary & Highlights - NOT ORIGINAL BOOK Notorious RBG was co-authored by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik. Irin is a journalist who interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsberg for MSNBC and Shana is the law stu...

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Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming-Of-Age in America

by Gustavo Perez Firmat

Published: 2006-01-01

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Poet, fiction, writer, and scholar Gustavo Perez Firmat writes a heartfelt memoir of a Cuban-American's lifelong search for identity and a sense of roots in his adopted land.

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The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It

by Joshua Cooper Ramo

Published: 2010-06-02

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Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial ...

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Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism

by Harm de Blij

Published: 2007-02-12

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Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a superpower; and Islamic terrorism and ...

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Catching the Wind

by Melanie Dobson

Published: 2017-05-09

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What happened to Brigitte Berthold?That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and ten-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival...

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His Family

by Ernest Poole

Published: 2015-09-02

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At sixty, Roger Gale looks at how his family -- his three daughters in particular -- respond to the changing times. He sees a little bit of himself in each of them. This is the first novel to win the Pulitzer Prize

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Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent

by Fred Burton

Published: 2009-06-09

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In this hard-hitting memoir, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, worldly-wise few. Plunging readers into the mur...

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Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA

by Jefferson Morley

Published: 2008-03-11

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Mexico City was the Casablanca of the Cold War-a hotbed of spies, revolutionaries, and assassins. The CIA's station there was the front line of the United States' fight against international communism, as important for Latin America as Berlin was for Europe. And its undisputed spymaster wa...