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  Reverse Engineering II

  Tom Drury, Yiyun Li, Ben Okri,...

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  The sequel to the critically acclaimed Reverse Engineering. Reverse Engineering II brings together contemporary classic stories with their authors' discussions of how they were written. An essential book for everyone interested in how fiction works...

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  Saint Guru Ravidas

  Saurabh Kumar

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  This book presents the life and a summary of the teachings of Guru Ravidas who who gave the Hindu social structure new vigour and vitality.

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  Needle Work - Battery Acid...

  Fred Rosen

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  A Michigan couple’s affair leads to two grisly murders by heroin injection in this true crime account from the acclaimed author of Lobster Boy. When Carol Giles’s friend Nancy Billiter was found dead—she had been bound, sexually violated, and injected with a lethal dose of battery acid and heroin—detectives in Michigan traced Billiter’s death back to Giles and her boyfriend, Tim Collier. Police also learned that the diabolical duo shared another secret: They had murdered Giles’s husband, Jessie.   Jessie, who had died months before Billiter, was disinterred, and an autopsy proved he’d been given a lethal shot of heroin instead of his prescribed insulin. Homebound and diabetic, Jessie was a heroin dealer. Police determined that Giles—who was fed up with taking care of her husband and children—along with her lover, Collier, had stolen the fatal dose from Jessie’s own drug supply. The cops surmised that Billiter’s death might have been due to her knowledge of the couple’s plot. In their dramatic trial, Giles and Collier turned against each other, but both were eventually convicted of murder.

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  The Governor Who Would Be...

  Troy Crawford

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  Few American politicians have ascended as rapidly—or drawn as much national scrutiny—as Gavin Newsom. From the polished chambers of San Francisco’s City Hall to the wildfire-scarred landscapes of California, Newsom has become more than a governor. He stands at the center of America’s fiercest cultural and political debates, a figure both admired and contested in equal measure. 
  The Governor Who Would Be President is a sharp, deeply researched political biography tracing Newsom’s evolution from a dyslexic student confronting early challenges to one of the most visible leaders in the United States. It examines the defining moments that shaped his ascent: the bold move to authorize same-sex marriage that reverberated nationwide, the catastrophic wildfire seasons that tested executive leadership, the pandemic lockdown battles that divided a state, and the recall campaign that threatened to derail his career. 
  But this book reaches beyond the headlines. 
  It explores the architecture of ambition—how alliances, reinvention, message discipline, and media strategy fueled Newsom’s rise. It dissects the mechanics of modern political branding and probes the careful expansion of his national presence. Beneath policy fights and press conferences lies a question shaping the national conversation: Is California’s governor positioning himself for the presidency? 
  Balanced and clear-eyed, this biography neither campaigns nor condemns. Instead, it offers context in an era of partisan noise. It reveals the long arc behind the public persona—the strategy, risk, and consequence that define leadership in twenty-first-century America. 
  Compelling and timely, The Governor Who Would Be President is an incisive portrait of power, ambition, and a nation at a crossroads.

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  The Con Man’s Daughter - A Story...

  Candice Curry

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  When Candice Curry was a little girl, she put her hand in her father’s back pocket so that she wouldn’t get lost in large crowds. Little did she know that as she followed him, he was plying his trade: conning people. Her family drove stolen cars, lived in stolen houses, and shopped with stolen credit cards. Drug use was regular, as were visits from strange people who were trying to track her father down. Though she eventually cut ties with her father, Candice could not ignore the scars that were left from her childhood. 
  This is her story, one steeped in secrets but one that, ultimately, led her to a place of forgiveness and freedom. As she struggles to understand her criminal father, as well as her own imperfect life, Candice comes to realize that we are not defined by our circumstances but rather by how we react to those circumstances. She’s found peace in the knowledge that God doesn’t love us because we’re perfect—but because he is.

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  Lincoln - A Very Short Introduction

  Allen C. Guelzo

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  Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. 
   
   
   
  Guelzo takes us on a wide-ranging exploration of problems that confronted Lincoln and liberal democracy—equality, opportunity, the rule of law, slavery, freedom, peace, and his legacy. The Lincoln we meet here is an Enlightenment figure who struggled to create a common ground between a people focused on individual rights and a society eager to establish a certain moral, philosophical, and intellectual bedrock. Lincoln insisted that liberal democracy had a higher purpose, which was the realization of a morally right political order. But how to interject that sense of moral order into a system that values personal self-satisfaction—"the pursuit of happiness"—remains a fundamental dilemma even today. 
   
   
   
  Guelzo paints a marvelous portrait of this Lincoln—Lincoln the man of ideas—providing new insights into one of the giants of American history.

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