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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Americas political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: its working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us, and how we are polarizing it, with disastrous results. “The American political systemwhich includes everyone from voters to journalists to the presidentis full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face,” writes political analyst Ezra Klein....
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today's world, creating both opportunity and peril—from the Pulitzer Prizewinning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth. "In this dazzling and brilliant book, Michiko Kakutani explains the cascading chaos of our era and points to ways that we can regain some stability."—Walter...
Author
Publisher
Hardie Grant Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sex Talk shows how opening up discussions on bodies, sexuality and pleasure can lead to much, much better sex and self-esteem, by the eminent French feminist pornographer Olympe de Gê and feminist writer Stéphanie Estournet. Sex Talk has a clear mission – breaking the taboo of taboos – by opening up the discussion of sex and desire in a clear, engaging and motivational way. The book takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery through nine...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Van Jones has made it his mission to challenge voters and viewers to stand in one anothers shoes and disagree constructively. In Beyond the Messy Truth, Jones offers a blueprint for transforming our collective anxiety into meaningful change. Tough on Donald Trump but showing respect and empathy for his supporters, Jones takes aim at the failures of both parties before and after Trumps victory. He urges both sides to abandon the politics of accusation...
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Language
English
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The conventional wisdom is that we need more civility and fewer arguments. If you have a controversial option, keep it to yourself. Tomi Lahren could not disagree more. It's a trick. The same people whining about tone will call you names and applaud those who threaten you. We don't need safe spaces, and you shouldn't be patient and wait out the bullying. In this book, Lahren encourages all Americans, especially women, to find their voice and speak...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life. Misfits is a triumphant call for honesty, empathy and inclusion. Championing “misfits” everywhere, this timely, necessary book is a rousing coming-to-power manifesto dedicated to anyone who has ever worried about fitting in."--
9) Gas City
Author
Language
English
Description
Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces---greed and corruption, ambition and desire---run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage.
A power struggle---between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful
...10) What went wrong: how the 1% hijacked the American middle class... and what other countries got right
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A sobering assessment of the American economy argues that voter choices are behind most current problems while citing the more effective examples of other countries.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what happened with the senator while they were dating"--
12) Blade of dream
Author
Series
Kithamar trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author and co-author of The Expanse comes an "atmospheric and fascinating" novel that unfolds within the walls of a single great city, over the course of one tumultuous year (Joe Abercrombie, author of A Little Hatred). Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories endure. This is Garreth’s. Garreth Left is heir to one...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Two award-winning political scientists provide the psychological key to America's deadlocked politics, showing that we are divided not by ideologies but something deeper: personality differences that appear in everything from politicsto parenting to the workplace to TV preferences, and which would be innocuousif only we could decouple them from our noxious political debate. What's in your garage: a Prius or a pickup? What's in your coffee cup: Starbucks...
Author
Series
Legends of the guardian-king volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
"Abramm's coronation is still underway, and rival leaders are plotting their return to power. Will Abramm hold onto victory, or will his enemies succeed in destroying his beloved realm?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In Breaking Through Power, Nader draws from a lifetime waging--and often winning--David vs. Goliath battles against big corporations and the United States government. In this succinct, Tom Paine-style wake-up call, the iconic consumer advocate highlights the success stories of fellow Americans who organize change and work together to derail the many ways in which wealth manipulates politics, labor, media, the environment, and the quality of national...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Why is our society in the fix it is in? Is it all Trump's fault? Well, no. As often observed, Trump is a symptom of a virus has been incubating for at least 50 years and maybe 150. But not often observed is where the virus is imbedded: in the psychic core of identity. This book explores the primacy of identity in American society and makes the argument that hyper-polarization was not only predictable but inevitable, based on such unlikely causal...
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Un libro para entender como se obtiene, se usa, se abusay se pierde el poder en el siglo XXI. En todo el mundo, las democracias se enfrentan a un enemigo nuevo e implacable que no tiene ejercito ni armada; no procede de ningun pais que podamos senalar en un mapa, porque no viene de ahi fuera, sino de aqui dentro. En lugar de desafiar a las sociedades libres con la destruccion desde el exterior, amenaza con corroerlas desde el interior. Un peligro...
19) Frost line
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Language
English
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Caine, a hunter of magical beings, must track down the powerful and alluring Lenna, the manifestation of the Tarot card known as Strength, whom has been tasked with protecting a young boy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1943: In the midst of the brutal, hard-fought Solomon Islands campaign between the Allies and the Japanese forces, Lieutenant Billy Boyle receives an odd assignment: he's sent by the powerful Kennedy family to investigate a murder in which PT skipper (and future president) Jack Kennedy has been implicated. The victim is a native coastwatcher, an allied intelligence operative, whom Kennedy discovered on the island of Tulagi with his head bashed in....
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