The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from ...Show more
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Dealing with the mafia, the Clintons and Trump: In A Higher Loyalty former FBI director James Comey details his experiences with some of the most important cases in USA history. In his Number One bestselling memoir, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of t ...Show more
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump by Michael Isikoff; David Corn
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency. RUSSIAN ROULETTE is a story of political skullduggery unprecedented in American history. I ...Show more
The Romanovs: The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: good
"Epic history on the grandest scale. . . . Game of Thrones seems like the proverbial vicar's tea party in comparison."--Financial Times The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined princip ...Show more
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things - A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel; Jason Moore
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, and Lives. These are the seven things that have made our world and will continue to shape its future. By making these things cheap, modern commerce has controlled, transformed, and devastated the Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel ...Show more
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
False economics. Threats, bribes, extortion. Debt, deception, coups, assassinations and unbridled military power. These are the tools used by the 'corporatocracy' - a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments and rich and powerful individuals - to ensure that they retain and expand thei ...Show more
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat To The Craziest Campaign In American History by Katy Tur
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Compelling... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Updated wiith a new introduction by the author Called "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice ...Show more
It's Even Worse Than You Think by David Cay Johnston
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration's policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety--completed revised and updated. New York Times ...Show more
An Activist Life by Christine Milne
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
An Activist Life is the story of an apparently ordinary woman - a high-school teacher from Tasmania - who became a fiery environmental warrior and social justice advocate, pitted against the most powerful forces in the country. In this fascinating memoir, Christine Milne shares her life through objects ...Show more
The Templars: Rise & Fall of God's Holy Warriors by Dan Jones
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
The Knights Templarwere the wealthiest, most powerful - and most secretive - of the militaryorders that flourished in the crusading era. Their story - encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealthand influence f ...Show more
The Work I Did : A Memoir of the Secretary to Goebbels by Brunhilde Pomsel; Thore D. Hansen; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
I know no one ever believes us nowadays everyone thinks we knew everything. We knew nothing. It was all a well-kept secret. We believed it. We swallowed it. It seemed entirely plausible 'Brunhilde Pomsel described herself as an apolitical girl ' and a figure on the margins '. How are we to reconcile thi ...Show more
Modern Ireland 1600-1972 by R F Foster
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: good-very good
Masterfully blending narrative and interpretation, and R.F. Foster's Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. 'The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his generation' Colm Tóibín, London Review of Books 'Remarkabl ...Show more