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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
by Mark Mazzetti
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A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s explosive account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special forces into competing covert manhunting and killing operations — the new American way of war Osama bin Laden’s... (read more)

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
by Paul Rogat Loeb
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
by Alexandra Horowitz
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
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The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s
by Chris Strodder
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Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States
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In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
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