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Hot Books
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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"A brilliant lawyer...A new and very important book. I would encourage all people...to read!"—President Donald J. Trump
"Absolutely amazing.... If you care about justice...read this book."—Sean Hannity
"Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else."—Politico
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders...
"Absolutely amazing.... If you care about justice...read this book."—Sean Hannity
"Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else."—Politico
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders...
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Karen Hollander is a celebrated attorney who recently removed herself from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her reasons have their roots in 1968, an episode she's managed to keep secret for more than forty years. Now, with the imminent publication of her memoir, she's about to let the world in on that shocking secret, as soon as she can track down the answers to a few crucial last questions. Today, only a handful of people...
5) Nicotine
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English
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Inheriting her hippie father's childhood home in New Jersey, a young woman who has rebelled against her family her entire life arrives at the house and encounters a group of charming anarchist squatters who share her political beliefs and fervent approach to life.
The conventional one in a non-conventional family, Penny Baker inherits her father's childhood home in New Jersey. She finds the property not overgrown and abandoned, but occupied by a...
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"Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing--and least understood--people living in America today. In his seminal new book, The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, journalist Tim Alberta, himself a practicing Christian and the son of an evangelical preacher, paints an expansive and profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement. Through the eyes of televangelists and small-town preachers, celebrity revivalists and everyday...
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2016.
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IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught...
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"Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939--and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from...
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