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Sam Dryden lives quietly in a small coastal town in Southern California, buying and fixing up old houses. It's good physical work that he's come to love. But his peaceful life is shattered when he gets a phone call from an old friend in trouble. A phone call that pulls Dryden into the middle of a situation that's as violent as it is baffling.

P.J. O'Rourke traces his development from hippie protester to conservative grouch to jaded humorist. Along the way, we are privy to his strange, twisted days as editor in chief of National Lampoon, as well as the in-depth looks at appropriate sports for middle-aged Republicans, namely those which can be engaged in with a smuggled Havana between the teeth - fly-fishing, bird hunting, deep-sea fishing, and of course, golf. Plus, you'll hear O'Rourke's take on the Virtues of Automobiles - because what good was oil doing sitting in the ground for millions of years? - and many other hilarious rants in this off-the-wall collection by America's premier political humorist.

The Reconstruction and Rise of Jim Crow describes the fallout of the Civil War, whose aftermath left the United States South angry and poor. This book details the struggles to decide how to deal with the newly freed slaves, through the years of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, sharecropping, and segregation. The storyline also sets the stage for the country’s next battle, which is between the Jim Crow laws and the 14th and 15th Amendments.

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In the aftermath of a car accident that claimed the life of her senator father, sixteen-year-old Milan finds herself adrift, expelled from her third boarding school. Milan’s mother, who has assumed the senate seat, diverts her private plane to pick up her daughter.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Joseph Lieberman made history when he became the first person of Jewish faith to be included on a major-party ticket. But he wasn't the first one to think of it. Not by a long shot. Long before he ran for office, Al Franken asked the question, Why Not Me? in his comedic audiobook of the same name....

Investigations Of Agent Adams eBook series, episode 2. Join Agent Adams in the depths of the Pentagon, where the line between genius and madness blurs. Dr. Robins, an R&D Engineer for the Department Of Defense, introduces a groundbreaking experiment that could rewrite humanity's fate. Her "Living Eggs Project" delves into uncharted territories, challenging the boundaries of medical science and morality in the name of progress. But as the project unfolds, the ethical stakes rise, and the implications of her work spark intrigue, fear, and power struggles at the highest levels. Can humanity ...

What if saving Earth meant rewriting its entire history? Solaya’s sun is dying. Earth is next. Only a secret team of scientists—and one humble historian—can rewrite both their futures. For generations, the planet Solaya was consumed by war and chaos—until the world's greatest minds united to build a better future. Their breakthroughs led to unimaginable technology, including the ability to shift matter—and even living beings—into a neighboring universe. Now faced with extinction, Solaya’s leaders turn to a parallel Earth for salvation. Through powerful devices called ...

A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence and a host of illustrious writers to tell the stories of the people on the ground in the contested territories.

🔥"HUNGER GAMES, 50 SHADES, and DIVERGENT, anyone?"🔥 💀 Discover a Dark Fantasy Masterpiece from New York Times, USA TODAY and Amazon top-100 Bestseller Tamara Rose Blodgett! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"If you have read the other books, then you will know how great they are..." ~ Veronica W In the year 2049, Earth is a shadow of its former self, gripped by a dystopian order where greed and desperation reign. This gripping spin-off of The Death Series introduces a new generation battling for survival—and the soul of humanity: 🌎 A New World in Chaos: The Randoms have seized power, plunging ...

Taylor pointed the weapon at the professor. Tears streamed down her face at seeing Reb hanging like he did. His face beaten and swollen and bruised. Violence marked his whole body. Was he even alive? “Don’t think what you’re thinking. He is the strongest person you know,” Chloe whispered. “Why, professor?” The professor spun around. “Back off, Taylor. I’ll kill him.” “Why? What did he ever do to you?” “What did he do me? Plenty. He screwed my mission to find those damn ciphers. He got me drummed out of the Marine Corps.” “That’s not his fault you were acting ...

A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit.

Four rogue assets. A perfect soldier haunted by the faces of his targets. A chameleon who loses herself in her personas. A brilliant chemist addicted to his own enhancements. And a hacker whose photographic memory is glitching, showing her things that aren't there. They are the Facility’s most dangerous weapons, thrust into a desperate mission to stop a global psychic catastrophe known as the Synergy Event. But when the key to the mission turns out to be the stepbrother Nyla swore to protect, the lines between duty and family blur into a single, deadly target.

Almost everything has been invoked to account for Trump's victory and the rise of alt-right, from job loss to racism to demography - everything, that is, except popular culture. In The Sky Is Falling best-selling cultural critic, Peter Biskind, dives headlong into two decades of popular culture - from superhero franchises such as the X-Men and the Avengers and series like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones to thrillers like Homeland and 24 - and emerges to argue that these shows are saturated with the values that are currently animating our extreme politics.

It started with a bus crash. Daisy was a little girl when it happened, and she barely remembers the accident or being brought back to life. At that moment, though, she became one of the first subjects in a covert government program that tests a drug called Revive. Now fifteen, Daisy has died and been Revived five times. Each death means a new name, a new city, and a new identity. The only constant in Daisy’s life is change. Then she meets Matt and Audrey, charismatic siblings who quickly become her first real friends....

Shortlisted for the 2012 Orwell Prize. 'As soon as we abandon our own reason', wrote Bertrand Russell, 'and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.' For over 40 years, Christopher Hitchens has proclaimed truth where others have spun falsehood and written, with passionate commitment, on matters that others fear to broach. This volume of essays encompasses Hitchens's writing over the past decade on politics, literature and religion.

Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, 44-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next 27 years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, a majority of which were previously unpublished, provide the most intimate portrait of Mandela since Long Walk to Freedom.

On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, and it was this peaceful protest that spurred the momentous civil rights laws of the mid-1960s.

Has the United States been a force for liberty around the world? Should it be? And if so, how? To answer these questions, Christopher A. Preble traces the history of US foreign policy from the American founding to the present, examining the ideas that have animated it, asking whether America's policy choices have made the world safer and freer, and considering the impact of those choices on freedom at home.

After more than 2,300 years, the Greek philosopher Aristotle still remains one of the most influential thinkers who has ever lived. There was hardly any field of human knowledge in existence during his day in which he did not make a major contribution. Additionally, he probed areas which were never before examined. Indeed, one could make the claim that no individual person has ever known as much about this world as Aristotle. His analyses of zoology and logic paved the way for modern forensic techniques, and for which every scientist down to this day owes him a debt of gratitude.