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  • Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite

    Peter Schweizer

    Audio CD (HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing, Jan. 21, 2020)
    Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: when a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact.For over a decade, the work of five-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe.Clinton Cash revealed the Clintons international money flow, exposed global corruption, and sparked an FBI investigation. Secret Empires exposed bipartisan corruption and launched congressional investigations. And Throw Them All Out and Extortion prompted passage of the STOCK Act. Indeed, Schweizer s follow the money bombshell revelations have been featured on the front pages of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and regularly appear on national news programs, including 60 Minutes.Now Schweizer and his team of seasoned investigators turn their focus to the nation s top progressives politicians who strive to acquire more government power to achieve their political ends.Can they be trusted with more power?In Profiles in Corruption, Schweizer offers a deep-dive investigation into the private finances, and secrets deals of some of America s top political leaders. And, as usual, he doesn t disappoint, with never-before-reported revelations that uncover corruption and abuse of power all backed up by a mountain of corporate documents and legal filings from around the globe. Learn about how they are making sweetheart deals, generating side income, bending the law to their own benefits, using legislation to advance their own interests, and much more.Profiles in Corruption contains tomorrow s headlines.
  • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on It

    Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, May 17, 2016)
    [Read by Michael Kramer] A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations -- whether in the boardroom or at home. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss's head, revealing the skills that helped him and his colleagues succeed where it mattered most: saving lives. In this practical guide, he shares the nine effective principles -- counterintuitive tactics and strategies -- you too can use to become more persuasive in both your professional and personal life. Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buying a car, negotiating a salary, buying a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your partner. Taking emotional intelligence and intuition to the next level, Never Split the Difference gives you the competitive edge in any discussion.
  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz

    Heather Morris

    Audio CD (HarperCollins and Blackstone Audio, Sept. 4, 2018)
    [Read by Richard Armitage]The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival--literally scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust. Lale used the infinitesimal freedom of movement that this position awarded him to exchange jewels and money taken from murdered Jews for food to keep others alive. If he had been caught he would have been killed; many owed him their survival. There have been many books about the Holocaust--and there will be many more. What makes this one so memorable is Lale Sokolov's incredible zest for life. He understood exactly what was in store for him and his fellow prisoners and he was determined to survive -- not just to survive, but to leave the camp with his dignity and integrity intact, to live his life to the full. Terrible though this story is, it is also a story of hope and of courage. It is also -- almost unbelievably -- a love story. Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale -- a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer -- it was love at first sight and he determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure that Gita did, too. His story -- their story -- will make you weep, but you will also find it uplifting. It shows the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances. Like many survivors, Lale and Gita told few people their story after the war. They eventually made their way to Australia, where they raised a son and had a successful life. But when Gita died, Lale felt he could no longer carry the burden of their past alone. He chose to tell his story.
  • Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall

    Nina Willner

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, Oct. 4, 2016)
    [Read by Cassandra Campbell]In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family -- of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped from East to West Germany. But the price of freedom -- leaving behind her parents, eight siblings, and family home -- was heartbreaking. Uprooted, Hanna eventually moved to America, where she settled down with her husband and had children of her own. Growing up near Washington, D.C., Hanna's daughter, Nina Willner became the first female Army Intelligence Officer to lead sensitive intelligence operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Though only a few miles separated American Nina and her German relatives -- grandmother Oma, Aunt Heidi, and cousin, Cordula, a member of the East German Olympic training team -- a bitter political war kept them apart. In Forty Autumns, Nina recounts her family's story -- five ordinary lives buffeted by circumstances beyond their control. She takes us deep into the tumultuous and terrifying world of East Germany under Communist rule, revealing both the cruel reality her relatives endured and her own experiences as an intelligence officer, running secret operations behind the Berlin Wall that put her life at risk. A personal look at a tenuous era that divided a city and a nation, and continues to haunt us, Forty Autumns is an intimate and beautifully written story of courage, resilience, and love -- of five women whose spirits could not be broken, and who fought to preserve what matters most: family.
  • The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy Donald Trump

    Jason Chaffetz

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, Sept. 18, 2018)
    Former Congressman and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz explains how we ended up with a federal government that actively works to defend the Democratic party and undermine Trump.The liberal media frequently declares the Obama years were free of scandal. They pretend this is true because every office in the Executive Branch worked to slow the information about Hillary's e-mails, the cover-up of Benghazi, the IRS, and so much more. Yet these same tight-lipped lifers leaked like a sieve once President Trump was sworn in, making it sound like everything he does is the new Watergate.In Deep State, Jason Chaffetz explains how the federal government has grown into a branch of the Democratic party of the past decade or more. The former chairman of the House Oversight committee explains what really happened during the Obama administration, and how we can start to undo the damage caused by this army of liberal sycophants, and build a better future.
  • Evil Under the Sun: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

    Agatha Christie

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, June 28, 2016)
    [Read by David Suchet]When a young bride is strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the secrets that shroud each of the guests to unravel the macabre mystery.
  • The Natural: How to Effortlessly Attract the Women You Want

    Richard La Ruina

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, Nov. 17, 2015)
    One of the world's top pick-up artists, Richard La Ruina went from having no women to being a true master of seduction. Now he shows you how to do the same. So move over Mystery, and tell Neil Strauss that The Rules of the Game are about to be rewritten. Every element of the winning pickup is right here, from discovering confidence to exuding charm, learning conversation starters to mastering body language, to much more. And as you move from daydreaming to flirtation to passion to romance to love, The Natural will show you how it's done.
  • Girl in a Band: A Memoir

    Kim Gordon

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, Feb. 24, 2015)
    *[Read by the author - Kim Gordon]Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story - a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just Kids. Often described as aloof, Kim Gordon opens up as never before in Girl in a Band. Telling the story of her family, growing up in California in the '60s and '70s, her life in visual art, her move to New York City, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship with her daughter, her music, and her band, Girl in a Band is a rich and beautifully written memoir. Gordon takes us back to the lost New York of the 1980s and '90s that gave rise to Sonic Youth, and the Alternative revolution in popular music. The band helped build a vocabulary of music - paving the way for Nirvana, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins and many other acts. But at its core, Girl in a Band examines the route from girl to woman in uncharted territory, music, art career, what partnership means - and what happens when that identity dissolves. Evocative and edgy, filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a transformative life, Girl in a Band is the fascinating chronicle of a remarkable journey and an extraordinary artist.
  • Cruel Crown

    Victoria Aveyard

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, Jan. 5, 2016)
    In Queen Song, Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, has a secret diary that recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her royal life. In Steel Scars, Captain Farley exchanges coded transmissions with the resistance as she travels the land recruiting black-market traders, smugglers, and extremists for her planned attack on the capital, a tougher job than expected -- until she chances upon a connection that may prove to be the key to the entire operation. Also included here is an exclusive excerpt of the hotly anticipated second book in the Red Queen series, Glass Sword.
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  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    J. D. Vance

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, June 28, 2016)
    [*Read by the author - J.D. Vance]J. D. Vance's grandparents moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. However, Vance's family struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of poverty. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
  • Invested: How Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Taught Me to Master My Mind, My Emotions, and My Money

    Phil Town, Danielle Town

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, March 27, 2018)
    In this essential handbook a blend of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Happiness Project the co-host of the wildly popular InvestED podcast shares her yearlong journey learning to invest, as taught to her by her father, investor and bestselling author Phil Town.Growing up, the words finance, savings, and portfolio made Danielle Town s eyes glaze over, and the thought of stocks and financial statements shut down her brain. The daughter of a successful investor and bestselling financial author of Rule #1, Phil Town, she spent most of her adult life avoiding investing until she realized that her time-consuming career as lawyer was making her feel anything but in control of her life or her money. Determined to regain her freedom, vote for her values with her money, and deal with her fear of the unpredictable stock market, she turned to her father, Phil, to help her take charge of her life and her future through Warren Buffett-style value investing. Over the course of a year, Danielle went from avoiding everything to do with the financial industrial complex to knowing exactly how and when to invest in wonderful companies. In Invested, Danielle shows you how to do the same: how to take command of your own life and finances by choosing companies with missions that match your values, using the same gold standard strategies that have catapulted Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger to the top of the Forbes 400. Avoiding complex math and obsolete financial models, she turns her father s investing knowledge into twelve easy-to understand lessons. In each chapter, Danielle examines the investment strategies she mastered as her increasing know-how deepens the trust between her and her father. Throughout, she streamlines the process of making wise financial decisions and shows you just how easy and profitable investing can be.Capturing a warm, charming, and down-to-earth give and take between a headstrong daughter and her mostly patient dad, Invested makes the complex world of investing simple, straightforward, and approachable, and will help you formulate your own investment plan and foster the confidence to put it into action.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
  • Wild Rescuers

    StacyPlays

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, June 5, 2018)
    [Children's Fiction (Ages 8-12)]From StacyPlays, creator of the mega-popular YouTube series Dogcraft, comes a thrilling illustrated novel about a girl raised by a pack of wolves and her quest to protect their shared forest home. The first in a new Minecraft-inspired fantasy adventure series!Stacy was raised by wolves. She's never needed humans to survive and, from what she sees of humans, they're dangerous and unpredictable. For as long as she can remember, Stacy's pack of six powerful, playful wolves -- Addison, Basil, Everest, Noah, Tucker and Wink -- have been her only family.Together, Stacy's pack patrols the forest to keep other animals safe, relying on her wits and each wolf's unique abilities to accomplish risky rescue missions. But as the forest changes and new dangers begin lurking, are Stacy and the wolves prepared for the perils that await them?Fans of DanTDM: Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal and the Warriors series -- plus shows like Ranger Bob -- will love this Minecraft-inspired adventure.
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