Skipping Christmas
by John Grisham
Change We Can Believe In
Foreword by Barack Obama
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Price: $13.95
At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader–one who can bring people together, be honest about the...
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The Nine
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Price: $15.95
In The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at...
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The Devil We Know
Written by Robert Baer
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Price: $25.95
Over the past thirty years, while the United States has turned either a blind or dismissive eye, Iran has emerged as a nation every bit as capable of altering America’s destiny as traditional superpowers Russia and China. Indeed, one of this book’s central arguments is that, in some ways, Iran’s grip...
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The Road of Lost Innocence
Written by Somaly Mam
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Price: $22.95
A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation.
A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope
Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the...
The Age of American Unreason
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Price: $26.00
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain...
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Deer Hunting with Jesus
Written by Joe Bageant
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Price: $13.95
A raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor-and why they hate liberalism.
Deer Hunting with Jesus is web columnist Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, which-like countless American small towns-is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. By turns...
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Right Is Wrong
Written by Arianna Huffington
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Price: $24.95
With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country.
Huffington makes the case that America has been hijacked from within by a radical element—the “lunatic...
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Richistan
Written by Robert Frank
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Price: $13.95
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
RICH-I-STAN n. 1. a new country located in the heart of America, populated entirely by millionaires, most of whom acquired their wealth during the new Gilded Age of the past twenty years. 2. a country with a population larger than Belgium and Denmark; typical citizens include “spud...
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McMafia
Written by Misha Glenny
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Price: $27.95
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success story to arise from these events...
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The Failure Factory
Written by Bill Gertz
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Price: $26.95
The U.S. government is in crisis.
With America’s attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shifted—to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book, acclaimed defense and...
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The Terminal Spy
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Price: $26.95
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president...
Dangerous Business
Written by Pat Choate
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Price: $25.95
From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks...
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The Return of History and the End of Dreams
Written by Robert Kagan
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Price: $19.95
Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. Nation-states remain as strong as ever, as do the old, explosive forces of ambitious nationalism. The world remains “unipolar,” but international...
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Turkmeniscam
Written by Ken Silverstein
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Price: $24.00
“As I have often said, I would represent the devil himself for the right price–it’s not personal, just business.”
–a Washington, D.C., lobbyist
For nearly as long as there have been politicians in the United States, there have been lobbyists haunting the halls of Congress–shaking hands, bearing gifts, and brandishing agendas. Everyone knows...
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The Much Too Promised Land
Written by Aaron David Miller
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Price: $26.00
For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors has given him a unique perspective on a problem that American leaders have wrestled with for more than...
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