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"It's easy to understand why Brad Meltzer and many other authors love to have Scott Brick perform their work. His delivery is impassioned, impossible to ignore...impossible to turn off." — AudioFile. From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy – comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before his inauguration. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, is often ranked among Americans' most well-liked presidents.

“Perhaps never before has there been a book better timed or more urgent.” — Washington Post. “Michael Lewis has this incredible ability to zoom in on one person's story, and from there reveals something much bigger about our culture. His books leave you seeing the world differently, and his books about federal workers are no exception.” — Katie Couric. As seen on CBS Mornings, CNN Anderson Cooper, ABC News Live, MSNBC Morning Joe, and many more. Who works for the government and why does their work matter?

An instant New York Times bestseller. In his travels through Israel and Gaza, #1 international bestselling author Douglas Murray has seen the best and the worst humanity has to offer—and he has no trouble choosing a side. Murray is not Jewish, and before October 7, he had never lived in Israel. However, he objects to being lied to, and Israel has been on the receiving end of the biggest, deepest, longest lies in history.

A captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet. Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end before, sometimes several times a day. In the computer models she uses to study climate change, it's easy to simulate rising temperatures, catastrophic outcomes, and bleak futures. But climate change isn't just happening in those models—it's happening here, to the only good planet in the universe. It's happening to us. And she has feelings about that.

The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on public health, environmental science, and quality of life issues. Scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. Yet a small but influential group within this community has actively denied these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and advisers, with strong political and industry ties, ran campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established science over four decades.

Set against the extraordinary events of January 6, 2021, Aquilino Gonell's inspirational memoir is rooted in the joys and struggles of the immigrant experience that have long defined the American experiment. Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. Although he spoke no English, he dedicated himself to his adopted land, striving for the American dream. Determined to be a success story, he joined the army to pay for college. He saw action in Iraq and returned home with PTSD.

"Extraordinary and amazingly erudite. Hammad shows how art and especially literature can be much, much more revealing than political writing." —Rashid Khalidi, New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine. From the award-winning author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative. Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University nine days before October 7th, 2023.

This program includes an introduction read by the author. A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history. In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement.

The long-awaited memoir by one of the most important political leaders of our time. For 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude. But Angela Merkel was not born a Chancellor. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-standing political advisor Beate Baumann, she looks back on her life in two German states – 35 years in the GDR (German Democratic Republic), 35 years in reunified Germany.

Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women.