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Weird But True! Know-It-All titles take the same classic branding of Weird But True and dive deeper to provide kids with a comprehensive overview of everything they need to know about a single subject, while packing in all the wacky, weird tidbits! This edition explores a complicated and timely subject: the government of the United States!
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PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hatchette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society that is contemporary Ukraine. In this timely and original history, a bestseller in Ukraine, the historian Yaroslav Hrytsak tells the sweeping story of his nation through a meticulous examination of the major events, conflicts, and developments that have shaped it over the course of centuries. Ukraine is essential reading...
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World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Hail to the Chief provides a comprehensive exploration of these leaders' lives, delving into their personal and political journeys and revealing the complexities of their presidencies and their enduring impact on American society."
5) Enough
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides [an] account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington. ... Her life took a dramatic turn on January 6th, 2021, when, at twenty-four, she found herself in one of...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of what the facts are. Social Justice Fallacies reveals how many things that are thought to be true simply cannot...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny-lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war crusader"--|cProvided by publisher.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER: A gripping first-hand account of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection from inside the halls of Congress, from origins to aftermath, as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution—by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it.
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican...
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory's Normal Women. In...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today-by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
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English
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"The first woman ever to issue the threat of a nuclear weapons strike is not even officially a head of state. Kim Yo Jong is the sister of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as their murderous regime's chief propagandist, internal administrator, and foreign policymaker, she is the most powerful woman in North Korean history. ... A princess by birth with great expectations for her macabre kingdom, she was brought up to believe it is her...
14) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
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Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First large print edition.
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English
16) City of betrayal
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(Victoria E.).Counterfeit lady novel volume 7
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English
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"A year has passed since Elizabeth Bates ran her last con. Life has been simpler, although not nearly as exciting, but she has thrown herself into working to get the 19th Amendment ratified by thirty-six states to become the law of the land. Since every other Southern state has already rejected the amendment, it seems unlikely Tennessee will be an exception . . . but it's their only hope, so the suffragists descend on Tennessee for the final battle....
17) The confidante: the untold story of the woman who helped win World War II and shape modern America
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Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
Description
"The first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant with only a high school education who went on to be dubbed by Life Magazine "the most important woman in the American government." Her life ran parallel to the front lines of history yet her influence on 20th century America, from the New Deal to the Cold War and beyond, has never before been told."--
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present ... The man who went on to become the sixteenth president of the United States has assumed many roles in our historical consciousness,...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"How online sleuths mobilized after the Capitol attack, providing the FBI with vital intelligence that aided hundreds of arrests while simultaneously raising ethical questions about the future of open-source intelligence, digital privacy, and the policing of political protests."--
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