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Publisher
Motina Books
Language
English
Description
Though reduced to a single label at times - Democrat, Republican, Independent, progressive, liberal, conservative - our political identities are as complex as we are as human beings. The sixteen conversations captured in How People Get Their Politics include how cancer, religion, race, and war shaped people's politics. There are powerful immigrant stories. Two public servants share their opposite, but equally passionate, views of what would be the...
45) Heroes proved
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2032, a suicide bomber targets Houston, Texas and a famous physicist is kidnapped. The ensuing search by a decorated U.S. Marine war hero and veteran of special ops, not only places the physicist's family in grave danger, but exposes an even more ominous threat to the country, more so than any threat in its history.
49) The fifth risk
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The author posits that the post-2016 election chaos that's taken over Washington has resulted in a small number of uninformed Trump appointees triggering devastating world consequences.
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the life story of founding father Benjamin Franklin, describing the many hats he wore, from inventor to businessman to statesman; the persona he created--and that still lives on; and his relationships with his wife, his illegitimate son, and his illegitimate grandson.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, known in America as the Great Awakenings. A populist rebellion against the established churches, it became the dominant religious force in the country. During the nineteenth century, white evangelicals split apart dramatically, first North versus South, and then at the end of the century, modernist versus fundamentalist. After World War II, Billy Graham, the...
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The columnist presents his reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Includes an autobiographical introduction.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the South African president and revolutionary, from his childhood and his work as a peaceful protestor to his twenty-seven-year imprisonment, his election as president, and his work to end apartheid in South Africa.
59) The crown's game
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Vika Andreyeva can summon the snow and turn ash into gold. Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air. They are the only enchanters in Russia, and when the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs threaten to attack, the tsar wants a powerful enchanter by his side, and as an advisor for the prince, Pasha. He initiates the Crown's Game, a duel of magical skill, and the winner will become his Imperial Enchanter; the loser will die....
60) Reagan: the life
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"From ... H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the first full life of Ronald Reagan since his death. Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his ... new biography, H W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the twentieth century"--
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