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Will Rhodes has made a terrible mistake. Harmless flirtations are part of his job. But these flirtations have never showed up at his hotel room with a gun, threatening his life. Will is a travel writer - a wine aficionado and international food expert for Travelers magazine. Though he's wondered why he sometimes has to deliver bulky sealed packages to consulates all over the world, or why he occasionally has to use a fake name. Now those shadowy errands...
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University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Between Pizzagate, QAnon, and the now ubiquitous cries of “fake news,” its tempting to think that were living in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicionand the delusional psychologies that fuel themhave been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as theres been an America. In this sweeping book, Thomas Konda traces the countrys obsession with conspiratorial...
25) The tower broken
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Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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"The world is at its breaking point. The nothing, a terrible darkness caused by the festering wounds of a god, bleeds out the very essence of all, of stone, silk--and souls. Emperor Sarmin thought he had stopped it, but it is spreading toward his city, Ceran--and he is powerless to halt the destruction. Even as Cerana fills with refugees, the Yrkmen armies arrive with conquest in mind, but they offer to spare Sarmin's people if they will convert to...
26) Even
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David Trevellyan thrillers volume 1
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Blends historical analysis with on-the-ground reporting to examine the relevance of modern conspiracy theories, discussing how contemporary social conditions have created a climate of alienation and resentment that fuels suspicion and paranoia.
28) City of lies
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Overlook Hardcover
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"John Harper has just made a discovery: the father he believed to be dead for more than thirty years is alive, though lying in a coma in a Manhattan hospital. Returning home to New York brings with it memories of childhood, many of them painful, and yet Harper could never have prepared himself for the truth. Confronted with the reality of his father's existence, Harper finds himself seduced by a lifestyle that he seems to have inherited--an underworld...
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Hearst Books
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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The first conspiracy theories about September 11 began to emerge while the wreckage was still smoldering. Five years later, hundreds of books and thousands of Web pages are devoted to the idea that the U.S. government encouraged, permitted, or actually carried out the attacks. But an in-depth investigation by Popular Mechanics--first published in the magazine's March 2005 issue, and now expanded into book form--definitively proves that the evidence...
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Inner Traditions
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Learn how ancestral trauma is at the root of wetiko and how the wounded healer/shaman archetype can help bring both individual and collective healing. Meet the inner guide-a daemon/angel that lives within us as an ally in our encounters with the daemonicenergy of wetiko. Cultivate "symbolic awareness" as a path to creating meaning and transmute the poison of wetiko into medicine for healing"--
"Learn how ancestral trauma is at the root of wetiko...
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"Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson's landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting and the work by a group of Sandy Hook parents to defend themselves and the truth of their children's fate against the frenzied distortions of online deniers and conspiracy theorists". On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first graders and six educators...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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A witty political satire ripped from the headlines and written by Congressman Steve Israel, who's met the characters, heard the conversations, and seen the plot twists firsthand. Meet Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman living and working in western Long Island who loves the Mets, loves his wife Rona, and loves things just the way they are. He doesn't enjoy the news; he doesn't like to argue. Rona may want to change the world; Morris wants...
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John Puller novels volume 1
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English
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From David Baldacci--the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist-comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation. And Zero Day is where it all begins.... John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal...
35) Marauders
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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An FBI agent investigates high profile bank robberies and comes to the realization that things are not what they seem and there is a big conspiracy at play.
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English
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"Imagine a world in which you own nothing and rent everything. Most of the protein in your diet comes from bugs, while lab-grown meats are a rare, expensive delicacy. You are not allowed to have more than one child, and your financial and medical data areinstantly transferred to a centralized government database via a subdermal microchip. Controligarchs warns that this will be our existence if the supranational elites of the World Economic Forum get...
37) Day One: a novel
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can't seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by tragedy, they find their futures may be defined by more than just their good intentions. Stonesmere is an English seaside suburb, defined by poignant traditions passed from generation to generation. Marty is a golden girl here, albeit one who quietly chafes against the legacy of her father's accomplishments and the care of her saintly mother - an outsider...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The author discusses how we should think about conspiracy theories, who believes them and why, which conspiracy theories are likely to be true or false and what criteria we can use to assess them, and what we should do to combat dangerous conspiracism and reestablish trust in our democratic institutions, in the media, and in one another"--
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