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Help, Thanks, Wow
The Three Essential Survival Prayers
Help, Thanks, Wow describes the three simple prayers — asking for assistance from a higher power, expressing gratitude and feeling awe — that help to deal with the hardships of daily life.NPR Bestseller
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Based on more than 200 personal interviews with current and former Scientologists, both famous and less well-known, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright uses his investigative ability to uncover the inner workings of the Church of Scientology.NPR Bestseller
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The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?
Jared Diamond uses decades of fieldwork in the Pacific Islands and other world regions to explore the degree to which modern society draws from earlier and ancient cultures. NPR Bestseller
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Behind The Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
A profile of everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother and a young scrap-metal thief, illuminating the way their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religion, caste and economic tensions.NPR Bestseller
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Coming Apart
The State of White America, 1960-2010
The controversial best-selling author of The Bell Curve presents a sobering critique of the white American class structure that argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass, with culturally disastrous potential.NPR Bestseller
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Sugar in the Blood
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
The author of The Rose of Martinique presents a history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery and colonial settlement in the New World through the story of the author's ancestors, exploring the myriad connections between sugar cultivation and her family's identity, genealogy and financial stability.
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Glock
The Rise of America's Gun
Glock tells the story of the American gun market as reflected by an Austrian six-cylinder revolver, tracing how it has become a weapon of choice on both sides of the law, in the entertainment industry and among Second Amendment enthusiasts.
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The Insurgents
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Based on secret documents, private emails, and interviews, The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions — the United States military. Their aim was to build a new Army that could fight the new kind of war in the post–Cold War age: not massive wars on vast battlefields, but "small wars" in cities and villages, against insurgents and terrorists.
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Mind and Cosmos
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
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The First Muslim
The Story of Muhammad
Lesley Hazleton's researched account of Mohammed's life adds depth and complexity to a story that is simultaneously famous and little-understood.
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Kill Anything That Moves
The Real American War in Vietnam
Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
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Manifest Injustice
The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
Bill Macumber served 38 years in prison for a double homicide he vehemently denies committing. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barry Siegel tells the story of Macumber's imprisonment and the long struggle for his freedom.
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The Double V
How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military
Traces the more than 150-year legal, political and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Truman's 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter deep-seated racism on the fields and on military bases. By the author of Root and Branch.
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Harlem Is Nowhere
A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
The author explores Harlem's legacy through the lives of people who lived there, both celebrities and everyday people, including her own experiences, in a book that looks at the growing gentrification of the culture-rich New York neighborhood.
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The Art of Betrayal
The Secret History of MI6
A security correspondent for the BBC offers insight into the secret world of the agents and spies in Britain's MI6. The Art of Betrayal covers MI6 history from the early days of the Cold War through the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall to the September 11 attacks.
