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MY LIFE |
| Clinton, Bill | |
| Former President Bill Clinton's long awaited memoir, My Life is due to hit the bookstores in June. It's his own account of his life and the White House years, written in a candid manner in which he discusses his successes and his setbacks. | |
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GHOST WARS : THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA, AFGHANISTAN , AND BIN LADEN, FROM THE SOVIET INVASION TO SEPTEMBER 10, 2001 |
| Coll, Steve | |
The Sept. 11 attacks brought to light a series of covert wars that had been waged in Afghanistan by the intelligence agencies and Islamic radicals for more than 20 years. This is the definitive history of those wars. |
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CELIA : MY LIFE |
| Cruz, Celia& Reymundo, Ana Cristina | |
| The authorized, posthumous autobiography of Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa's extraordinary--and until now, largely-private-life. Based on more than 500 hours of taped video interviews recorded just months before her death, Celia includes never-before- published personal pictures, and anecdotes, letting fans celebrate a life filled with heartbreaking setbacks as well as glorious triumphs. Also in Spanish. | |
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IRAQ WAR |
| Keegan, John | |
The Iraq War remains highly controversial, but in all the uncertainty about weapons of mass destruction and the use and misuse of intelligence, it remains an awesome military and political event and a formidable exercise in American power aided by the British Army. Throughout the war and beyond it, Keegan's analysis proved more accurate than any other commentator's and now he brings his knowledge of military history to bear on the war, its conduct and consequences. |
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AGAINST ALL ENEMIES : INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE'S WAR ON TERROR -- WHAT REALLY HAPPENED |
| Clarke, Richard | |
| The War on Terror is run from one location--the White House--and Clarke has been its chief architect for 11 years. He served Reagan, Bush, and Clinton faithfully, and stayed on when George W. Bush took the oath of office. Yet, two years later, he left public service. The country's leading expert on Al Qaeda, and on the American effort to guard against terror, has an extraordinary story to tell. | |
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RULE OF FOUR |
| Caldwell, Ian& Thomason, Dustin | |
Tom Sullivan's father was studying a mysterious 16th-century book encoded in seven languages when he was murdered. Tom and his college roommate discover a long-lost diary that holds the key to translating the book, but after the death of another researcher, it becomes clear that the manuscript holds a dangerous - and deadly - secret... |
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MEMORIAL DAY |
| Flynn, Vince | |
| When intelligence suggests a major terrorist attack is planned for Memorial Day, the president orders Mitch Rapp to Afghanistan where he leads the ultra secret counter-terrorism unit, Task Force 11, on a raid across the border into Northern Pakistan . Rapp and his team discover plans for a nuclear attack on New York City . A nuclear emergency team races to the scene. In a few hours, danger is averted. Or is it? | |
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SKINNY DIP : A NOVEL |
| Hiaasen, Carl | |
| Chaz Perrone is a marine scientist who's up to no good, involved in a scam with a ruthless agribusiness tycoon who's dumping fertilizer into the endangered everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard. Unfortunately for him, she doesn't die. Instead she's rescued by former cop Mick Stranahan who helps Joey when she decides to play dead and screw with Chaz until he screws himself | |
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HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX |
| Rowling, J. K. | |
| As Harry Potter grows older, the conflicts in his life increase as well. In book five, there's a growing threat from He-Who-Must Not be-Named. And Harry is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this, he finds depths and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew. He also has to see others in a new light, like Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Then too, there's the crush he has on a certain girl. . . . | |
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HIDDEN PREY |
| Sandford, John | |
| Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior , a man named Vladimir Orslov is murdered and everybody has a theory. When it turns out he had high government connections, ''it'' hits the fan. A Russian cop flies in from Moscow , Davenport flies in from Minneapolis , law enforcement and press types swarm the crime scene. In the middle of it all, there's another murder. Before he can find the answers, Davenport will have to follow a trail back to another place and time, and battle the shadows he discovers. | |
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