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By Nicholas Irving
From the legendary special operations sniper and bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful book on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's 10 most significant kills - none of which have been told before.
By MacKenzie Cooley
A deep history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empire were shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding. The Renaissance is celebrated for the belief that individuals could fashion themselves to greatness, but there is a dark undercurrent to this fêted era of history. The same men and women who offered profound advancements in European understanding of the human condition--and laid the foundations of the Scientific Revolution--were also obsessed with controlling that condition and the wider natural world.
By Leah Redmond Chang
"The boldly original, dramatic, intertwined story of three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men"--
By David Shulkin
The former VA secretary describes his fight to save health care from politics and money--and how it was ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials with influence in the Trump White House. "A painful-to-swallow story of a political environment gone toxic."--General(ret.) Stanley McChrystalMcChrystal
By Alison Weir
In the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author Alison Weir brings the dramatic reigns of England's medieval queens to life. The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident--love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare--but their stories have been largely obscured by centuries of myth and omission.
Provides a surprising picture of the lives and reigns of the first five Plantagenet queens, during a century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta, covering Eleanor of Aquitaine, Berengaria of Navarre, Isabella of Angoulãeme, Alienor of Provence and Eleanor of Castile.
By Andrew Hoehn, Thom Shanker
An urgent look at how America's national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe--and what we can do to fix it. Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1 trillion operate. Yet time and time again, the US government gets it wrong on critical issues.
By Helena Andrews-Dyer
Can white moms and Black moms ever truly be friends. Not just mom friends, but like really real friends. And does it matter. "Utterly addictive. . . Through her sharp wit and dynamic anecdotal storytelling, Helena Andrews-Dyer shines a light on the cultural differences that separate Black and white mothers.
By Natalie Carnes
"This is a woman's answer to Augustine's Confessions. The narrator gives birth to her daughter and finds she has given birth to a new self. But this conversion to the new life of motherhood demands other conversions, further births, newer selves. As she struggles with the thorny issues of modern parenthood-raising a white child in a world of racism, a daughter in a world of patriarchy, and a religious child in a religiously divided home-the author finds herself reflecting on some of the oldest questions of humankind: How does the world reveal God to us? How do we live well in a world of suffering? Why are we tempted to betray our love?"--
By Elma Van Vliet
A touching, beautifully designed, guided journal that invites mothers to record stories of their lives, creating a personal keepsake for generations to come. When Elma van Vliet's mother became ill in 2001, Elma realized there was still so much she wanted to ask her. That's why she created a series of books to help share and preserve precious memories.
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