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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

by Steve Coll

Published: 2018-02-06

Hardcover: 784 pages

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Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11Prior ...

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Ghosted: A Novel

by Rosie Walsh

Published: 2018-07-24

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Instant New York Times bestseller!"I absolutely loved this book and didn't want it to end." --Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies“This is an ‘accidentally stayed up until 4 a.m. because it's impossible to put down’ kind of novel.” --USA TodaySeve...

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Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling

by Andy Crouch

Published: 2013-10-09

Paperback: 284 pages

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2009 Christianity Today Book Award winner! Named one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 2008 (religion category) It is not enough to condemn culture. Nor is it sufficient merely to critique culture or to copy culture. Most of the time, we just consume culture. But the only way to change ...

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It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics

by David Faris

Published: 2018-04-10

Hardcover: 208 pages

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It's time to do more than protestThe American electoral system is clearly falling apart—as evidenced by the 2016 presidential election. In It’s Time to Fight Dirty, David Faris offers accessible, actionable strategies for American institutional reform which don’t require a constituti...

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The Poet X

by Elizabeth Acevedo

Published: 2018-03-06

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam po...

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Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

by Jeanette Winterson

Published: 2017-11-14

Paperback: 304 pages

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A New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2017“Nowhere is [Winterson’s] faith in the transporting power of storytelling more on display than in her new book, Christmas Days . . . dark, otherworldly and (trademark Winterson) wickedly funny . . . [a] holiday treasure . . . to be ...

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Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

by Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz

Published: 2014-06-03

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The bestselling business classic on the power of relationships, updated with in-depth  advice for making connections in the digital world.   Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success?   The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out ...

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Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best. and Learn from the Worst

by Robert I. Sutton

Published: 2012-03-15

Paperback: 352 pages

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Now with a new chapter that focuses on what great bosses really do. Dr. Sutton reveals new insights that he's learned since the writing of Good Boss, Bad Boss. Sutton adds revelatory thoughts about such legendary bosses as Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, A.G. Lafley, and many more, and how you can...

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The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

by Michiko Kakutani

Published: 2018-07-17

Hardcover: 208 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES Editors' ChoiceFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America’s retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited...

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Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed (New Postscript and Author Interview Only eBook)

by Mandy Wiener

Published: 2012-06-01

Kindle Edition: 438 pages

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In September 2005, Brett Kebble, a prominent South African mining magnate, was killed on a quiet suburban street in Johannesburg in an apparent ‘assisted suicide’. The top-level investigation that followed was a tipping point for democratic South Africa, which implicated an astonishing array of high-profile...