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Inc.com – 5 Business Thrillers to Read on the Beach This Summer – Amazon Best Book of the Month – Nonfiction – An Economist Book of the Year – The Sunday Times Business Book of the Year. "If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them." — John le Carré, author of A Legacy of Spies.

#1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux.

A "devilishly fun" (New York Times Book Review) account of a deadly serious business: the undercover spies and the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow, from legendary former-CIA operatives. Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, and tapped their phones. Intelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever.

The #1 New York Times bestseller. From Vice President Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, comes a book about the core truths that unite us and how best to act upon them. "A life story that genuinely entrances." — Los Angeles Times. “An engaging read that provides insights into the influences of [Harris’s] life... Revealing and even endearing.” — San Francisco Chronicle. The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President Kamala Harris was raised in an Oakland, California, community that cared deeply about social justice.

Un jour, ma mère m'a appris que j'avais une dette envers quelqu'un. Un type que ni elle ni moi n'aimions. Je ne savais pas quoi faire de cet aveu. Alors je l'ai enfoui dans ma « chambre des vérités embarrassantes ». À cinquante ans, j'ai décidé d'écrire une lettre à cet odieux personnage. Pour mieux comprendre et peut-être me libérer de cette dette. Je croyais en avoir pour quelques soirs, mais ça m'a pris des mois. Car ce n'est pas tous les jours qu'on écrit à... Nicolae Ceaușescu, tyran de la Roumanie pendant vingt-deux ans.

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography - Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award - Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Time - A New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 - One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2023 - One of The New Yorker's essential reads of 2023 - A Christian Science Monitor best book of the year - One of Air Mail's twelve best books of 2023 - A Washington Post and national indie bestseller - One of Publishers Weekly's best nonfiction books of 2023 - One of Smithsonia

Shortlisted for the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. "Chilling and nuanced ... a murder mystery but also, more important, a portrait of a nation where no one knows what to believe, or whom to trust." -- Mark Bowden, The New York Times Book Review. "Epic ... deeply reported and riveting." -- NPR Online. Former AP Mexico bureau chief Katherine Corcoran's pulsating investigation into the murder of a legendary woman journalist on the verge of exposing government corruption in Mexico. Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation.

Instant national bestseller — A vivid and meticulous true-crime story that exposes the deep fractures in a system that repeatedly fails to protect women, while tracking the once-cold trail of a murderer still at large. Krystal Senyk was the kind of friend everybody wants: a reliable confidant, a handywoman of all trades, and an infectious creative with an adventurous spirit. Most importantly, she was tough as nails. So when her best friend needed support to leave her abusive husband, Ronald Bax, Krystal leapt into action. But soon Krystal became the new outlet for Bax’s rage.

"In this impassioned warning and inspirational call to arms, Ressa identifies and illuminates her core values of empathy, honesty, and faith in humanity to illustrate how a strong commitment to such foundational beliefs can provide the key to democracy's survival... Searing and electrifying." —Booklist (starred review). From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes an impassioned and inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies.

From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize–winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon.