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New @ PPL Books on CD and PlayawaysSeptember 2016
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September 21st - Fiction (organized by author)
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Pushing Up Daisies
by M. C. Beaton
When a wealthy land developer who had been planning to turn a community garden into a housing estate winds up dead, Agatha Raisin is hired by the victim's accused son to clear him of suspicion and identify the real killer among numerous suspects. By the best-selling author of the Hamish Macbeth series.
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Home
by Harlan Coben
When one of two boys kidnapped from their wealthy families resurfaces a decade later, the young survivor is observed by two peers who would discover the fate of the other missing boy. By the Edgar Award-winning author of The Stranger.
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Robert B. Parker's Debt to Pay
by Reed Farrel Coleman
Setting aside complications in his love life to investigate the brutal murder of a high-ranking Boston crime boss, Jesse Stone suspects the work of a vengeful psychotic assassin who is targeting Stone's ex-wife. By the Shamus Award-winning author of The Devil Wins.
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Pirate
by Clive Cussler
Confronted by a determined adversary, husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo embark on an international quest involving an 800-year-old relic and a brutal murder. Co-written by the best-selling author of the Dirk Pitt series. Read by Scott Brick.
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The monogram murders
by Sophie Hannah
A brand-new mystery featuring Agatha Christie's legendary hero follows Hercule Poirot as he tries to solve a diabolically clever puzzle in 1920s London that will put his keen skills of detection to the test. Simultaneous.
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Razor girl
by Carl Hiaasen
Involved in a car accident with a young scam artist, a man helplessly watches his life spiral out of control in the wake of a sand-stealing company, a Hawaiian-shirt-clad NYC mafia capo, a reality show accordionist and other eccentric characters. By the best-selling author of Bad Monkey. Simultaneous.
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Killoe
by Louis L'Amour
Dan Killoe-, over six feet of tough, raw, lightning fast man. He had a trail heard and a mass of settlers to get across unknown territory to a new land. Then he gave shelter to a stranger being hunted by Felipe Soto, scar faced leader of the renegade Comancheros. This time Killoe was borrowing more trouble than he wanted to handle.
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Darktown
by Thomas Mullen
Responding from pressure on high, the Atlanta police department is forced to hire its first black officers in 1948. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers and their authority is limited: They cant arrest white suspects; they cant drive a squad car; they cant even use the police headquarters and must instead operate out of the basement of a gym. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up fatally beaten, no one seems to care except for Boggs and Smith, two black cops from vastly different backgrounds. Pressured from all sides, they will risk their jobs, the trust the community has put in them, and even their own safety to investigate her death. Their efforts bring them up against an old-school cop, Dunlow, who has long run the neighborhood like his own, and Dunlows young partner, Rakestraw, a young progressive who may or may not be willing to make allies across color lines.
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The Kept Woman
by Karin Slaughter
A long-awaited latest entry in the best-selling series pits Georgia detective Will Trent against the dark forces of a case that threatens to destroy him. By the author of Pretty Girls.
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The Underground Railroad : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
Chronicles the daring survival story of a cotton plantation slave in Georgia, who, after suffering at the hands of both her owners and fellow slaves, races through the Underground Railroad with a relentless slave-catcher close behind.
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September 21st - Non-fiction
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Learn to Meditate : Guided Meditation, Includes PDF Guidebooks, Library Edition
by Rae Roberts
Learn to Meditate by Rae Roberts contains eight different meditation sessions over three unique programs. These sessions teach meditation techniques that have been practiced globally for thousands of years. Learn to Meditate: The Mindfulness of Breathing includes two easy-to-follow thirty-five-minute classes that have been created to introduce and progress this effective meditation technique to those with little or no experience. Through practicing mindfulness, we can live with more focus and awareness of ourselves, others, and the world around us.Learn to Meditate: The Metta Bhavava contains two easy-to-follow meditation classes that have been created to introduce and progress this powerful technique to beginners. With regular practice, loving kindness (Metta) can be developed and grown (Bhavana) into a very strong emotion that has the potential to affect every aspect of your life and interactions with others.Mindfulness: Overcoming the Obstacles contains four different fifteen-minute guided meditation sessions. These easy-to-follow sessions can be used again and again to help you overcome the common obstacles experienced during mindfulness meditation. Please do not listen to this audio while driving.
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In Such Good Company : Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
by Carol Burnett
Get the best seat in the house as comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. For eleven glorious seasons the guests, sketches and cast antics made the show legendary. Burnett lays it all out for us, from the show's original conception to its evolution into one of the most beloved primetime programs of its generation, and to the last show.
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The Making of Donald Trump
by David Cay Johnston
The culmination of nearly thirty years of reporting on Donald Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston takes a revealingly close look at the mogul's rise to power and prominence.Covering the long arc of Trump's career, Johnston tells the full story of how a boy from a quiet section of Queens, New York, would become an entirely new and complex breed of public figure. Trump is a man of great media savvy, entrepreneurial spirit, and political clout. Yet his career has been plagued by legal troubles and mounting controversy. From the origins of his family's real estate fortune to his own too-big-to-fail business empire; from his education and early career to his whirlwind presidential bid, The Making of Donald Trump provides the fullest picture yet of Trump's extraordinary ascendency. Love him or hate him, Trump's massive influence is undeniable, and figures as diverse as Woody Guthrie (who wrote a scathing song about Trump's father) and Red Scare prosecutor Roy Cohn, mob bosses and high rollers, as well as the average American voter, have all been pulled into his orbit. Drawing on decades of interviews, financial records, court documents, and public statements, David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump more closely than any other journalist working today, gives us the most in-depth look yet at the man who would be president.
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Bones of Paradise
by Jonis Agee
"A multi-generational family saga set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sandhills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee--an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a ... cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land."
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Frost Line
by Linda Howard
Lenna is Strength, a manifestation of the Tarot card, and powerful beyond reckoning. But when she's pulled into the human realm and tasked with protecting a young boy, everything is thrown into chaos. Lenna's not supposed to be here, interacting with mortals. She's definitely not supposed to be drawn to the sexy mercenary sent to retrieve her by any means necessary.
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A Great Reckoning : A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
by Louise Penny
Receiving a mysterious old map that has been found stuffed in the walls of a bistro, former Quebec homicide investigator Armand Gamache follows clues to the site of a dead Sûreté academy professor and an unlikely cadet with whom he is implicated in a murder case. By the award-winning author of The Nature of the Beast.
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Invasive
by Chuck Wendig
An FBI consultant who works to identify unexpected and cutting-edge threats embarks on a terrifying chase to a secret laboratory after a billionaire inventor is suspected of weaponizing the natural world in a very unnatural way.
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The Jealous Kind : A Novel
by James Lee Burke
Intervening when he sees a beautiful, gifted girl fighting with her boyfriend, a young man inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob in his Korean War-era Texas community and must summon the courage of his soldier father in order to stand up for his beliefs.
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Liar's Key
by Carla Neggers
An FBI legend, a mysterious antiquities specialist and a brazen art thief draw top FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan into a complex web of blackmail, greed and murder. By the New York Times best-selling author of Saint's Gate.
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Secret Window, Secret Garden : Two Past Midnight
by Stephen King
Awakened one morning by a knock at the door of his summer home, author Morton Rainey tentatively goes to answer it. The man on the other side, John Shooter, accuses Morton of stealing one of his stories. As Morton goes about trying to prove Shooter wrong, all traces of evidence supporting his innocence begin disappearing. Soon, Morton begins doubting his sanity, and Shooter begins planning his revenge.
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The Sun Dog : Four Past Midnight
by Stephen King
Kevin Delevan is ecstatic when he receives a camera, called a Sun, for his fifteenth birthday. Unfortunately, however, the camera only seems to take pictures of a growling, menacing dog. And, oddly, the dog is not in the frame when the shutter is snapped. As the mongrel seems to be getting closer and closer, tension mounts in this engaging thriller.
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September 9th - Non-fiction
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Sully : My Search for What Really Matters
by Jeffrey Zaslow
Airline pilot Captain "Sully" Sullenberger tells his life story, including his perspective on the emergency landing on the Hudson River that earned him the world's admiration, and offers insight into the qualities that have been vital to his success.
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Arrowood
by Laura Mchugh
Arrowood is the most ornate and beautiful of the grand historical houses that line the Mississippi River in southern Iowa. It has its own secrets and ghostly presence: It's where Arden's young twin sisters were abducted nearly twenty years ago, never to be seen again. Now, Arden has inherited Arrowood, and she returns to her childhood home determined to establish what really happened that traumatic summer. But the house and the surrounding town hold their secrets close. And the truth could be more devastating than Arden ever imagined.
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Behind Closed Doors
Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn't work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. And why there are bars on one of the bedroom windows. Sometimes, the perfect marriage is the perfect lie.
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Bullseye
by James Patterson
Tracking a pair of killers who are targeting an extremely popular United States president, detective Michael Bennett puts himself in the line of fire to prevent an assassination and the reignition of the Cold War. By the #1 best-selling author of Alert.
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The City Baker's Guide to Country Living
by Louise Miller
A pastry chef for an exclusive Boston dinner club loses her job in the wake of a disastrous fire and escapes to her best friend's Vermont hometown, where her mouthwatering desserts give way to a new job, a blue-ribbon competition, a potential relationship and new understandings about belonging.
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Cold Ridge
by Carla Neggers
Carine Winters unwittingly becomes immersed in a murder investigation that forces her to team up with Tyler North, the pararescueman who left her at the altar, an unlikely alliance that brings them face-to-face with unimaginable evil.
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Cooking for Picasso
by Camille Aubray
A tale inspired by a little-known interlude follows the 1936 culinary affair between a reclusive Picasso at a crossroads in his life and a rebellious teen from the French Riviera, a relationship that shapes the life of the girl's granddaughter in New York more than half a century later.
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The Couple Next Door
by Shari Lapena
When a terrible crime committed on the night of a dinner party casts suspicion on a young couple who seemed to have it all, Detective Rasbach discovers that the panicked duo had been hiding dangerous secrets from each other for years. A debut suspense novel by the award-winning author of Things Go Flying.
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Curious Minds
by Janet Evanovich
Uncovering an embezzlement scheme linked to the highest levels of power at her mega-bank, junior analyst Riley Moon forges an unlikely alliance with the bank's famously eccentric client, Emerson Knight, a financial whiz who helps her uncover one of the century's biggest crimes.
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Damaged
by Lisa Scottoline
Named the guardian ad litem of a middle-school boy with emotional issues on whose behalf she is suing the Philadelphia school district, Mary DiNunzio is confronted by elite lawyer Nick Machiavelli and risks her engagement in her obsessive investment in the case. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Every Fifteen Minutes.
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The Dollhouse
by Fiona Davis
Arriving at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952 where she is instantly rendered a misfit, a plain, self-conscious secretarial school student is befriended and introduced by a hotel maid to the city's jazz and drug counterculture and is involved in a deadly skirmish that reverberates half a century later in the life of an obsessed journalist. Reading guide online.
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Don't Tell Me You're Afraid
by Giuseppe Catozzella
Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games.
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Family Tree
by Susan Wiggs
Waking up from a coma after a shattering accident, Manhattan television producer Annie Harlow retreats to her childhood home on a Vermont maple farm, where she reconnects with loved ones while cooking her grandmother's recipes and uncovering a family mystery. Reading-group guide online. Read by Christina Traister.
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Hanging Woman Creek
by Louis L'Amour
Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don't want, don't need, but don't dare turn their backs on -- especially when one of the perpetrators might be one of Pike's old friends. Hunted like animals across the frozen countryside, Pike and Holt will risk everything -- their reputations, their dreams, and their lives.
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Insidious
by Catherine Coulter
Investigating the attempted murder of an octogenarian society icon, FBI agents Savich and Sherlock consider a number of family suspects while Special Agent Cam Wittier teams up with detective Daniel Montoya in Los Angeles to capture a serial killer who is targeting young actresses.
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The Lost Girls : Library Edition
by Heather Young
More than half a century after the disappearance of her sister destroys their family, Lucy imparts the story of the tragedy to her grandniece, Justine, who would secure a stable home for her daughters in the family's isolated Minnesota lakehouse at the side of a neighbor who may hold the key to the mystery.
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The One Man
by Andrew Gross
Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence office in Washington, DC, but he longs to contribute to the war effort in a more meaningful way, and he has a particular skill set the U.S. suddenly needs. Nathan is fluent in German and Polish, he is Semitic looking, and he proved his scrappiness at a young age when he escaped from the Polish ghetto. Now, the government wants him to take on the most dangerous assignment of his life: Nathan must sneak into Auschwitz, on a mission to find and escape with one man.
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Rushing Waters
by Danielle Steel
An interior designer, her independent architect mother, a British investment banker, an ER doctor who survived Hurricane Sandy and two NYU students are thrust together when a major hurricane descends upon New York City and wreaks unimaginable devastation. By the best-selling author of Prodigal Son. Read by Dan John Miller.
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Scorched Earth
by George Galdorisi
"ISIS reigns supreme in huge swathes of Iraq and Syria and poses a threat to stability in the Middle East. When an American airstrike kills the ISIS leader's only son, he vows revenge. He discovers that a U.S. Navy admiral, now on duty in the Pentagon, led the strike. The ISIS leader has him kidnapped by American home-grown ISIS sympathizers. Their orders: smuggle him out of the United States and bring him to Mosul for execution. When the normal levers of U.S. domestic security can't move quickly enough to locate the hostage, the President calls on the National Crisis Management Center-Op-Center to find the admiral and rescue him. But as the crisis drags on and it appears the admiral is hidden in a cargo shipment, already on a flight out of the country en route to Mosul, his son, a Navy SEAL, embarks on a lone-wolf mission to rescue his father. Op-Center must muster both its domestic strike force, an elite component of the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group Hostage Rescue Team, as well as its international intervention force built around a seasoned squad operating out of the secretive unit that captured Osama bin Laden: the Joint Special Operations Command.
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The Selfless Act
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Businessman Joel Byler who has gotten himself into a financial bind and his eccentric, wealthy Amish father is done bailing out his spoiled son. When will Joel learn he must pay for his own mistakes, and at what cost to his business, his fiance, and his Amish siblings?
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Smooth Operator
by Stuart Woods
Summoned to Washington for a potentially disastrous situation that requires the help of ex-CIA agent and master of disguise Teddy Fay, Stone Barrington reluctantly oversees an operation that is complicated by Fay's maverick approaches and personal brand of justice. Co-written by the Edgar Award-winning author of Chief.
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Sting
by Sandra Brown
Changing his mind about his crime partner's abduction of wealthy party planner Jordie Bennet, seductive bad boy Shaw Kinnard flees with his elegant captive from the FBI and her brother's corrupt boss while trying to ignore the chemistry that challenges their escape.
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The Swarm
by Orson Scott Card
A prequel to Ender's Game profiles the past of Ender's world and is set in the aftermath of the Scouring of China as part of the Formic's efforts to eradicate all life on Earth. By the best-selling authors of Invasive Procedures.
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Sweet tomorrows
by Debbie Macomber
Jo Marie Rose begins dating again after Mark's departure and forges a close bond with heartbroken boarder Emily, whose desire to focus on adopting a child is challenged by an unexpected relationship.
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Three Sisters, Three Queens
by Philippa Gregory
Brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, Katherine of Aragon forges a unique sisterhood with the king's sisters, Margaret and Mary, that is shaped by rivalries, wars, betrayal, widowhood, motherhood, passion and secrets. By the best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.
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September 6th - Nonfiction
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Adnan's Story : The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
by Rabia Chaudry
"In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes of finding a journalist who could shed light on Adnan's story. In 2014, Koenig's investigation turned into Serial, a Peabody Award-winning podcast with more than 500 million international listeners. But Serial did not tell the whole story. In this compelling narrative, Rabia Chaudry presents new key evidence that she maintains dismantles the State's case: a potential new suspect, forensics indicating that after Hae was killed her body was kept somewhere for almost half a day, and documentation withheld by the State that refutes the cell phone evidence--among many other points. And she shows how fans of Serial joined an amazing crowd-sourced investigation into a case riddled with errors and strange twists. Adnan's Story also gives a sense of Adnan's life in prison and weaves in his personal reflections, including never-before-seen letters. Chaudry, who is committed to exonerating Adnan, makes it clear that justice has yet to be achieved in this much-examined case."
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A Call to Mercy : Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve
by Mother Teresa
Published to coincide with Pope Francis's Year of Mercy and the Vatican's canonization of Mother Teresa, this new book of unpublished material by a humble yet remarkable woman of faith whose influence is felt as deeply today as it was when she was alive, offers Mother Teresa's profound yet accessible wisdom on how people can show mercy and compassion in their day-to-day lives.
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The Fight
by Norman Mailer
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible ₁professor of boxing.₂ The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity. Whether he is analyzing the fighters₂ moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African and American souls, Mailer₂s grasp of the titanic battle₂s feints and stratagems, and his sensitivity to their deeper symbolism, makes this book a masterpiece of the literature of sport.
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The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
by Amy Schumer
An uproarious collection of no-holds-barred personal essays by the Emmy Award-winning comedian reflects on her raucous childhood antics, her hard-won rise in the entertainment industry and her struggles to maintain the courage to approach the world in unstintingly honest ways.
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The Perfect Horse : The Daring U.s. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
by Elizabeth Letts
The riveting true story of the valiant rescue of priceless pedigree horses in the last days of World War II. As the Russians closed in on Hitler from the east and the Allies attacked from the west, American soldiers discovered a secret Nazi effort to engineer a master race of the finest purebred horses. With the support of U.S. general George S. Patton, a passionate equestrian, the Americans planned an audacious mission to kidnap these beautiful animals and smuggle them into safe territory.
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The Snowden Files : The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
by Luke Harding
In a tour de force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Snowden's astonishing story, from the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Honolulu carrying a hard drive full of secrets to the weeks of his secret-spilling in Hong Kong, to his battle for asylum and his exile in Moscow. For the first time, Harding brings together the many sources and strands of the story, touching on everything from concerns about domestic spying to the complicity of the tech sector, while also placing us in the room with Edward Snowden himself.
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Way of the Reaper : My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper
by Nicholas Irving
A step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's ten most significant kills; none of which have been told before. Each mission is an in-depth look at a new element of eliminating the enemy, from Intel to luck, recon to weaponry. Told in a thrilling narrative, this is also a heart-pounding true story of some of The Reaper's boldest missions including the longest shot of his military career on a human target of over half a mile.
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