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| | oleh Ronald Kessler *** Out of Print *** When Laura Bush moved into the White House on January 20, 2001, everyone wanted to know what kind of first lady she would be. Would she be like Mamie Eisenhower? Would she follow in Barbara Bush’s footsteps? Would she be another Hillary Clinton?
“I think I’ll just be Laura ... [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh Tim Weiner *** Out of Print *** For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of ... [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh Jenny Offill, Elissa Schappell *** Out of Print *** The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new anthology that will do for money what they did for women’s friendships.
Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this riveting anthology, a host of celebrated ... [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh Tom Holland *** Out of Print *** In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the ... [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh John Grisham *** Out of Print *** Playing for Pizza: A Q&A with John Grisham Q: American football in Italy seems like an unlikely subject for a John Grisham novel. What was the inspiration for Playing for Pizza? A: Three years ago when I was in Bologna researching "The Broker", I ... [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh John Powers *** Out of Print *** L.A. Weekly editor/columnist John Powers surveys the landscape of George W. Bush's America and finds it littered with frothing liberals, sneering conservatives, sluggish reporters, and mindless commentators. From reality TV to the "embedded media," Powers dissects the post-9/11 milieu with ... [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh John Grisham *** Out of Print *** As the author of twenty bestselling books, John Grisham has set the standard for legal thrillers since the debut of The Firm in 1991. Enjoy this Q&A--as well as a personal note to Amazon readers--from John Grisham. [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh John Grisham *** Out of Print *** Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to ... [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh Peter Schweizer, Rochelle Schweizer *** Out of Print *** Get the inside story on America’s most powerful political dynasty.
President George W. Bush leads our nation in a time of unprecedented peril. But how well do we really know him or his remarkable family, whose history often mirrors the history of America? Now, in the first ... [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh Dan Brown *** Out of Print *** [selengkapnya]
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