The Winning Ticket by Rob Sand

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The Winning Ticket | Uncovering America’s Biggest Lottery Scam by Rob Sand follows the author’s investigation into a mysterious lottery ticket and the scheme it uncovers. Both a story of small-town America and a true-crime saga about the largest lottery-rigging scheme in American history, The Winning Ticket follows the investigation all the way down the rabbit hole to uncover how Eddie Tipton was able to cheat the system to win jackpots over $16 million and go more than a decade without being caught—until Sand inherited the case.

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How Democracies Live by Stein Ringen

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How Democracies Live | Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern Societies by Stein Ringen illustrates the successes of democracy and how governments can strengthen their commitment to democratic values. Drawing on the ideas of Machiavelli, Aristotle, Tocqueville, Max Weber, and others, Ringen shows how power is the fuel of government, and statecraft turns power into effective rule.

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Indelible City by Louisa Lim

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Indelible City | Dispossession And Defiance In Hong Kong By Louisa Lim is rich with the history of Hong Kong. An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger, Lim, indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased.

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Ukraine’s Revolt, Russia’s Revenge by Christopher M. Smith

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Ukraine’s Revolt, Russia’s Revenge by Christopher M. Smith recounts the author’s viewpoint of the EuroMaidan Revolution. Told from the perspective of a U.S. diplomat in Kyiv, this book is the true story of Ukraine’s anti-corruption revolution in 2013—14, Russia’s intervention and invasion of that nation, and the limited role played by the United States.

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Searching for Peace by Ehud Olmert

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Searching for Peace | A Memoir of Israel by Ehud Olmert is the compelling memoir of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert who almost made peace with the Palestinians. The book offers a riveting political story and an unparalleled window into Israeli history, peacemaking, politics, U.S.-Israel relations, and the future of the Middle East. Olmert wrote the book almost entirely from inside a prison cell after being convicted of bribery charges in 2014.

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The Snatch Racket by Carolyn Cox

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The Snatch Racket | The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America by Carolyn Cox provides a view of the prevalence of child kidnappings during the Great Depression. Although the 1932 kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s baby was a worldwide sensation, it was only one of an estimated three thousand ransom kidnappings that occurred in the United States that year. The epidemic hit America during the Great Depression and the last days of Prohibition as criminal gangs turned kidnapping into the highly lucrative “snatch racket.”

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Wuhan: Dokumentarroman by Liao Yiwu (published in German)

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Wuhan: Dokumentarroman by Liao Yiwu (published in German) | Wuhan: The Documentary Novel is a fascinating novel which delves into what really happened in Wuhan.

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Just Help! by Sonia Sotomayor

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Just Help! How to Build a Better World by Sonia Sotomayor shows young readers how to help those around them. In a story inspired by her own family’s desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes readers on a journey through a neighborhood where everyone helps one another to build a better world for their community.

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The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin

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The Cowshed | Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin recounts the authors imprisonment and struggle during the Cultural Revolution in China. The book is the author’s harrowing account of his imprisonment in 1968 on the campus of Peking University and his subsequent disillusionment with the cult of Mao.

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The Secret Listener by Yuan-tsung Chen

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The Secret Listener | An Ingenue in Mao’s Court by Yuan-tsung Chen shares the experiences of the author’s life in China under Mao’s regime. It is a personal account of life in the orbit of Mao and Zhao En-Lai and one woman’s effort to tell what it was like to be at the center of the storm.

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