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  1. The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
    The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name Brian C. Muraresku, Graham Hancock - foreword, Graham Hancock, Macmillan Audio
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  2. Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
    Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump Michael Cohen
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    Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles, Random House Audio
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  4. Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads
    Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads Al Sharpton, Michael Eric Dyson
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  5. Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
    Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents Rod Dreher
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  6. Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America (Bill O'Reilly's Killing
    Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
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  7. Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation
    Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation Andrew Weissmann
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  8. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't
    Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know Malcolm Gladwell, Hachette Audio
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  9. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
    Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win Jocko Willink, Leif Babin, Macmillan Audio
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    How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi
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  11. The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
    The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
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    What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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    Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Kathleen Belew
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  14. Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation
    Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation Andrew Weissmann, George Newbern, Random House Audio
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  15. Man's Search for Mea
    Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl, William J. Winslade, Harold S. Kushner
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  16. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migra
    The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson
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  17. His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
    His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life Jonathan Alter
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    Night (Night) Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
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  19. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
    Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty Jeff Pearlman
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  20. Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
    Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Robert Petkoff, Macmillan Audio
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  1. Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
    Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times David S. Reynolds
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    This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century Steven Hyden
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    Trust: America's Best Chance Pete Buttigieg
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    Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Vol. 3) (Pacific War Trilogy) Ian W. Toll
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    Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish, Diana Gabaldon, Hodder & Stoughton
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    Trump: America First: The President Succeeds Against All Odds Corey R. Lewandowski, David N. Bossie
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    The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation Lynne Cheney
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    If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future Jill Lepore
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    Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation Anne Helen Petersen
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  19. Without Compromise: The Brave Journalism that First Exposed Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and the American Epid
    Without Compromise: The Brave Journalism that First Exposed Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and the American Epidemic of Corruption Wayne Barrett, Eileen Markey
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    Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer, Rick Adamson, Kalorama
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    How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps Ben Shapiro
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    Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward
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  3. The Three Cs That Made America Great: Christianity, Capitalism and the Constitution
    The Three Cs That Made America Great: Christianity, Capitalism and the Constitution Mike Huckabee, Steve Feazel, Sean Hannity, Rose Somma Tennent, Carol M. Swain, David Limbaugh, Star Parker, Mathew Staver, Larry Gatlin, Melissa Ohden
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    United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It. Dinesh D'Souza
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    The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism Jemar Tisby
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    Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks) Workman Publishing, Michael Lindblad, Ximena Vengoechea, Editors of Brain Quest
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    Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison) Vashti Harrison
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  2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari
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  3. 100 Parks, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do
    100 Parks, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do Joe Yogerst
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  4. The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
    The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir John Bolton
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  5. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
    The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Richard Rothstein
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  6. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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  7. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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  8. Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
    Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
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