Daniel Silva

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Tennessee

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon. From its shocking opening in Paris, The Black Widow reveals itself as Silva’s most timely and powerful novel yet. Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled, entertained and educated readers with eighteen thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring a diverse cast of compelling characters and ingenious plots that have taken them around the globe and back—from the United States to Europe, Russia to the Middle East. His brilliant hero, Gabriel Allon—art restorer, assassin, spy—has joined the pantheon of great fictional secret agents, including George Smiley, Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, and Simon Templar. Following the success of his smash hit The English Spy, The Black Widow showcases Silva’s consummate skill and brilliant imagination, and is sure to be a must read for both his multitudes of fans and growing legions of converts.

The Black Widow

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oklahoma

As Americans, we often take our many freedoms for granted. It is easy to forget the difficulties many of our ancestors faced when fighting for the rights we now enjoy. Because the United States is a "nation of laws and not of men," these people were able to challenge unfair laws in hope of a better future. Fights for Rights explains our everyday rights of free speech, religion, the rights of the accused, and how our Constitution guarantees these rights for all people.

Fights for Rights

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Thomas L. Friedman

Few spots on the very edges (see last photo); otherwise excellent condition! 

Oregon

A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

Offers a concise history of globalization, discussing a wide range of topics, from the September 11 terrorist attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India.

The World Is Flat

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Watt Key

New York

After the death of his father, Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life.

Alabama Moon

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#paperback #political #ya #government #battlefield #middle #east #election

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

As mainstream news sources increasingly turn to the lowest common denominator of shock jocks and flag-waving, millions of Americans are getting their information about important global issues from alternative, nontraditional sources. GNN is one of the best.In True Lies, the writers at GNN uncover the stories that the mainstream media has held back from the American public. From the war on drugs to environmental abuse to what is really happening in the streets of Baghdad, GNN is the resource more Americans turn to when hungry for answers about what is really happening in the world.

True Lies

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Peter Schweizer

Connecticut

How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

From the New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose!

Secret Empires

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#paperback #scifi #sciencefiction #vintagescifi #booksfromthe90s #sequel #action #aliens #experiments #government 

Mississippi

Steven Montana, computer whiz and hacker extraordinaire, was attending college in Ohio when his world fell apart. A swarm of huge meteors fell all over the world, on Europe, on the United States, and in particular on Steven¿s home town in California. In an instant, his family and all his friends were gone. Eventually, he learned that the ¿meteor¿ onslaught that had orphaned him had actually been a brief and still secret war between the U.S and its enemies (as told in Warp Speed) using a new warp drive technology that was more secret than top secret. Another secret was that U.S. had been sending faster-than-light ships to other star systems. Most secret of all was that unfriendly aliens were observing the Earth, and while U.S. spaceships were not quite in a war with the unknown aliens, they were shooting at the intruders. Whether any of these answers would do Steven any good was an open question because he learned them only after his was abducted by those very same aliens and was held prisoner on one of their ships orbiting Saturn. At first, he was one of three human prisoners, but he had just seen the aliens completely dissect one of the three, and it looked like either Steven, or the Russian girl who was his fellow prisoner, were scheduled to be the next alien lab experiment. . . .

The Quantum Connection

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#paperback #sciencefiction #scifi #action #adventure #sequel #CIA #government #space #teleportation 

 * The exciting sequel to One Day on Mars.

The Tau Ceti Agenda

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#trump #politics #history #government #president

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era

The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible.

As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose why Trump was elected and what his presidency reveals about our nation. Many of these, he's found, are more defensive than incisive, more righteous than right.

In What Were We Thinking, Lozada uses these books to tell the story of how we understand ourselves in the Trump era, using as his main characters the political ideas and debates at play in America today. He dissects works on the white working class like Hillbilly Elegy; manifestos from the anti-Trump resistance like On Tyranny and No Is Not Enough; books on race, gender, and identity like How to Be an Antiracist and Good and Mad; polemics on the future of the conservative movement like The Corrosion of Conservatism; and of course plenty of books about Trump himself.

Lozada's argument is provocative: that many of these books--whether written by liberals or conservatives, activists or academics, Trump's true believers or his harshest critics--are vulnerable to the same blind spots, resentments, and failures that gave us his presidency. But Lozada also highlights the books that succeed in illuminating how America is changing in the 21st century. What Were We Thinking is an intellectual history of the Trump era in real time, helping us transcend the battles of the moment and see ourselves for who we really are.

What Were We Thinking

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Jimmy Carter

In an intimate portrait of one man's journey of faith, the former president incorporates scriptural passages, personal experiences, and anecdotes about friends, family members, and colleagues who inspired him to demonstrate how a dynamic faith can enrich one's public and private life. 200,000 first printing. Tour.

Living Faith

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Jeffrey Simpson

Georgia

The Politics of Patronage

Through the use of private letters, official documents and personal observations, the author examines the provincial and national use of patronage, from Sir John A. Macdonald's "purchase" of Nova Scotia's opponent of Confederation to the scandal-plagued Mulroney cabinet.

Spoils of Power

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Alabama

When a preacher asks attorney Will Chambers to defend himagainst accusations that could discredit the gospels, Will's unbelieving heartsays “run.” But conspiracy and intrigue draw him deep into the case...and closerto Christ.

The Resurrection File

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Eleanor. Roosevelt

Michelle Markel

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

How Our Government Works for You

When You Grow up to Vote

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Carolyn Reeder

Michigan

During the Depression, eleven-year-old Carrie makes her annual summer visit to her relatives in the Blue Ridge Mountains and watches her determined grandfather fight against the government's attempt to take his farm land for a new national park.

Grandpa's Mountain

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Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

K. R. Hobbie

Ted LeValliant

Marcel Theroux

There ought to be a law against making laws this wacky! But since there isn't, why not have fun with the silliest statutes, looniest lawsuits, and dumbest decisions on record?

Who ever thought a law book would be funnier than a joke book? Well it is--just take a look at these: Children under the age of seven can't attend college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Anyone flying over Maine should remember: it's illegal there to step out of the plane while it's in the air. And why can't the chicken cross the road in Quitman, Georgia? Because it's "fowl" criminal behavior. That's just the beginning, because this collection also uncovers some of the most incredible, unbelievable lawsuits, government grants, and court verdicts. For example, the United States Navy spent $792 for a designer doormat. A psychic sued doctors because she lost her "aura" after a brain scan. Each fact is stranger than the one before!


Wacky Laws, Weird Decisions, and Strange Statutes

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Louisiana

Government

From Communism to Democracy

"A useful text and reference book. These essays are at their best in serving both area study and political sociology."---Slavic Review "Wolchik and Curry have assembled an all-star cast of experts for an authoritative assessment of the progress the region has made toward liberal democracy and a market economy in the last two decades. The book's particular strength is to cast the process in terms of a return to Europe. It thus pays attention not only to crucial developments in domestic politics but also to the influence of important international actors. Another exceptionally useful feature is the inclusion of essays that address important issues cross-nationally, as well as in-depth studies of each country individually, making the book especially valuable to students and scholars interested in the politics of the region and those interested in the interaction between domestic issues and global political and economic forces."---Michael Bernhard, Pennsylvania State University "This is a straightforward and lucid overview of the paths taken away from communism by Central and East European states. The authors effectively address the domestic and international influences on the course of political development in the former communist states. The book is highly recommended to anyone who wants a clear picture of a complex and important region and its constituent parts."---Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan Now in a fully updated edition, this essential text explores the other half of Europe, the new and future members of the EU along with the problems and potential they bring to the region and to the world stage. Clear and comprehensive, it offers an authoritative and up-to-date analysis of the transformations and realities in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and Ukraine. The book presents a set of comparative country case studies as well as thematic chapters on key issues, including European Union and NATO expansion, the economic transition and its social ramifications, the role of women, persistent problems of ethnicity and nationalism, and political reform. New to this edition is a chapter on Albania. For students and specialists alike, this book will be an invaluable resource on the newly democratizing states of Europe.

Central and East European Politics

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Kathleen Krull

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A new biography series, complete with full color illustrations, that celebrates amazing women, from acclaimed author Kathleen Krull.

Women Who Broke the Rules: Sonia Sotomayor

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Stuart Gibbs

Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.

Spy School

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Michelle Wilde Anderson

Outside of book is in Like New condition while the inside is in Excellent condition, due to previous owner doing some highlighting on 6 pages, but does not interfere with reading book, please refer to pics posted.

Pennsylvania

Reimagining Discarded America

A sweeping and authoritative study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in four working-class cities across the US that passionately argues for reinvestment in people-centered leadership. Decades of cuts to local government amidst rising concentrations of poverty have wreaked havoc on communities left behind by the modern economy. Some of these discarded places are rural. Others are big cities, small cities, or historic suburbs. Some vote blue, others red. Some are the most diverse communities in America, while others are nearly all white, all Latino, or all Black. All are routinely trashed by outsiders for their poverty and their politics. Mostly, their governments are just broke. Forty years after the anti-tax revolution began protecting wealthy taxpayers and their cities, our high-poverty cities and counties have run out of services to cut, properties to sell, bills to defer, and risky loans to take. In The Fight to Save the Town, urban law expert and author Michelle Wilde Anderson offers unsparing, humanistic portraits of the hardships left behind in four such places. But this book is not a eulogy or a lament. Instead, Anderson travels to four blue-collar communities that are poor, broke, and progressing. Networks of leaders and residents in these places are facing down some of the hardest challenges in American poverty today. In Stockton, California, locals are finding ways, beyond the police department, to reduce gun violence and treat the trauma it leaves behind. In Josephine County, Oregon, community leaders have enacted new taxes to support basic services in a rural area with fiercely anti-government politics. In Lawrence, Massachusetts, leaders are figuring out how to improve job security and wages in an era of backbreaking poverty for the working class. And a social movement in Detroit, Michigan is pioneering ways to stabilize low-income housing after a wave of foreclosures and housing loss. Our smallest governments shape people’s safety, comfort, and life chances. For decades, these governments have no longer just reflected inequality—they have helped drive it. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Anderson argues that a new generation of local leaders are figuring out how to turn poverty traps back into gateway cities.

The Fight to Save the Town

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Glenn Beck

Exposing the Truth about Guns

A controversial TV and radio host presents a passionate case for guns, arguing that gun control isn't really about controlling guns at all; it's about controlling the people. Original.

Control

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#paperback #ya #government #political #organization #change #participation

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Profiles of People Making a Difference

This book is about how government really works, not about politics or political life. It is about real people finding solutions to problems with work or living situations. The profiles feature people working at local, state, county, and federal levels of government to redesign communities and reinvent ways for government to serve citizens.

Government Works

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John Jakes

Iowa

Retraces the early years of the "Secret Service," from the Pinkertons to the assassination of Lincoln, following four main characters--a spy, a rebel, an actress, and an officer

On Secret Service

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Brandon Burden

Texas

When Christians Take a Stand in Civil Government

Do you want to see a godly change happen in American government? Are you ready to be a part of that change? You can! Daniel Nation is a powerful story of strategic action for bringing needed change to politics. This inspiring true account shows how Pastor and modern-day reformer, Brandon Burden, is leading a grassroots movement for political reformation. Fueled by faith to challenge the strongholds of darkness holding this nation captive, Brandon's story will move you to say, "Here I am, Lord, Send me!" Read how Christians gathered and showed up at the Texas State Capitol for the 2023 legislative session to overturn evil agendas ... and won! God is raising an army filled with truth, wisdom, and love for the well-being of the next generation who will boldly speak for wholesome legislation. Read what others are saying: "Daniel Nation is Pastor Brandon's powerful testimony of what happens when Christians prayerfully and deliberately organize and engage in the legislative process." - Christin Bentley, Republican Party of Texas "Pastor and political activist, Brandon Burden, has written a stirring page-turner. I cannot recall reading anything that is as compelling and activating as this volume!" - Jim Hodges, Federation of Ministers and Churches International Thank you, Brandon, for your efforts in the 88th Legislature to save Texas kids. I hope your book is a smashing success. Rep. Tom Oliverson, Texas State Representative House District 130 Pastor Burden brings us the strategy and hope that is needed today. If you want to be encouraged, this book is a must read! Audrey Werner, Dean of Life Issues at Masters International University of Divinity Amidst the highs and lows, Brandon's reliance on God's guidance and wisdom consistently prevailed, leading to remarkable outcomes. Unveiling a compelling story, this book traces his remarkable journey from a single seed sown by a 7th grade teacher to the creation of a platform empowering Christians to have a resounding voice in civil government. In the present landscape, where darkness pervades, there emerges a call for an army of modern-day Daniels. These individuals, fueled by faith, stand poised to challenge the strongholds of a secular culture and reclaim lost territories for the glory of God. This compelling narrative serves as a beacon, beckoning Christians to heed the call to engage in civil government at all levels. With every page, be inspired to echo a resounding affirmation, "Here I am, Lord. Send me!" Join the movement and discover your role in shaping a brighter, more successful future for the United State of America.

Daniel Nation

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Marvin Olasky

Maryland

Political and Cultural Wars in Eighteenth-Century America

This groundbreaking history of 18th-century America spotlights morality's crucial impact on politics and the Revolution and invites Christians to examine the link between good values and good government.

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