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Story of a society in which all books are to be burned.

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Learning about an imminent terrorist attack, CIA operative Mitch Rapp takes the lead in a daring commando raid into northern Pakistan, where he obtains information about a planned nuclear attack but suspects that a greater threat has yet to be uncovered. By the author of Executive Power. Reprint.

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With CIA director Thomas Stansfield dead, his protege, Dr. Irene Kennedy, is poised to take over the reins of the agency, while CIA operative Mitch Rapp heads to the Middle East to try to stop the chaos that could ignite World War III. Reprint.

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Based on unprecedented access to Rupert Murdoch, his family, and his associates, a incisive portrait of the powerful media mogul and his empire furnishes an insider's study of a man with extraordinary influence on the global media, the impact of that power, and the family members being groomed to succeed him. 200,000 first printing.

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In the sequel to Separation of Power, CIA operative Mitch Rapp, on domestic assignment after his high-profile mission to Iraq, finds himself investigating an attack on a team of Navy SEALs in the Philippines, searching for a possible State Department traitor, and racing against time to stop a Middle Eastern assassin out to ignite World War III. Reprint.

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Having led a prestigious military and intelligence career, Hank Casey, a protTgT of counter-terrorism operative Mitch Rapp, struggles with the ethics and challenges of his job when the government inexplicably turns against him. A best-selling novel. Includes execerpt from the author's new thriller <IT>Pursuit of Honor<RO>. <B>Reprint<RO>.

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In 1982, a Roman Catholic nun became the spiritual advisor to a condemned murderer who was soon executed. Powerfully and persuasively, with a compassion that embraces not only the terrified killer but the families of his victims and the men who executed him, Prejean narrates Patrick Sonnier's walk to the electric chair.

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A blueprint for ending poverty in America, based on the philosophies of leading scholars, businesspeople, and activists and published in conjunction with the country's top anti-poverty centers, addresses a range of issues, from job creation and education to housing and family-friendly social policy.

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An incisive study of the notorious terrorist organization examines the leadership, ideology, tactics, and finances of Al Qaeda; discusses how the organization trains fighters; and outlines the international response that will be necessary to destroy the organization. Reprint.

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Having earned numerous enemies in his more than fifteen years on the front lines of the war on terror, CIA operative Mitch Rapp is targeted by the influential father of a terrorist who is demanding retribution for his son's death. Reprint.

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Examines the Taliban and its form of Islamic fundamentalism, explains how the organization rose to power, and discusses its impact on Afghanistan and why the country has become a center for international terrorism.

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Describes the harrowing May 2001 attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds on a trek that cost fourteen lives.

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Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to Americas inner cities--from fatherless households to drugs and violent crime--stem directly from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs in the wake of a globalized economy. Wilsons achievement is to portray this crisis as one that affects all Americans, and to propose solutions whose benefits would be felt across our society. At a time when welfare is ending and our country's racial dialectic is more strained than ever, When Work Disappears is a sane, courageous, and desperately important work."Wilson is the keenest liberal analyst of the most perplexing of all American problems...[This book is] more ambitious and more accessible than anything he has done before."--The New Yorker

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In an updated edition of her best-selling, landmark study, the sharp social critic and author of <IT>Fear of Falling<RO> looks underneath the illusion of American prosperity at poverty and hopelessness in America, with a new afterword that offers a revealing look at the continuing plight of the underpaid and how the current economic situation affects them. Reprint.

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<B>The authorized hardcover, indexed edition of the national bestseller.</B><BR><BR>Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil.<BR><BR>In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks, identify lessons learned, and provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism.<BR><BR>This hardcover volume is the authorized edition of the Commission's final report, and includes a full index.

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The best-selling author of <IT>The Last Juror<RO>, <IT>The Runaway Jury<RO>, <IT>A Time to Kill<RO>, and other tales of legal suspense presents his first work of nonfiction, in a compelling real-life legal thriller that follows the case of Ron Williamson, an aspiring ballplayer convicted of murder in a case tainted by lies and manufactured evidence. Reprint.

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In the wake of his girlfriend's brutal murder by an assassin who is in possession of a strange radioactive isotope, covert counter-terrorism agent Scot Harvath discovers clues to a conspiracy with presidential ties that puts him at odds with his own agency. By the author of <IT>Takedown. <RO>Reprint.

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A former white-collar employee and conservative southerner describes how he walked away from a lucrative career as an advertising executive and spent a year working a series of minimum-wage jobs as a fast-food jockey, a construction worker, and more.

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The second child of a scholarly, alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing from the Arizona desert, to Las Vegas, to an Appalachian mining town, during which her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.

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A narrative account of the author's investigation into the world's economic gap describes her rediscovery of a blue sweater she had given away to Goodwill and found on a child in Rwanda, in a passionate call to action that relates her work as a venture capitalist on behalf of impoverished nations. 40,000 first printing.

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After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel. Reprint.

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The author of <IT>The Future of Freedom <RO>makes predictions about what he believes is a world in which a rapid rise of such nations as China, India, and Brazil is countering America's previous dominance over the global economy, geopolitics, and culture, in an account that shares advice on how the United States can understand and thrive in the face of rapid international changes. First serial, <IT>Newsweek<RO>.