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In Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders outlines his career and political ideals. The book includes an autobiographical sketch of his early life, a discussion of his 2016 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, and a summary of his views on important national issues. Sanders believes that the wealthy control government institutions and the national media to their own advantage.

The Power of the Other by Henry Cloud is a self-help book that demonstrates the ways that people influence each other. It describes how to cultivate healthy relationships in order to get the most benefit from interpersonal relationships. Individuals can improve themselves beyond certain limits only if they have emotional connections with and receive feedback from others. Healthy relationships improve physical and mental development, as well as shape the mind's methods for managing how the body handles information and energy.

The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney is the story of the Plumb siblings, a group of disillusioned Gen X-ers struggling to navigate their lives in the aftermath of 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis. The novel opens with the estranged Leo Plumb, age 46, at a family wedding in summertime. Leo is avoiding his soon-to-be ex-wife, Victoria, and his family. Then Leo meets 19-year-old Matilda Rodriguez, a cocktail waitress who dreams of becoming a singer. The two ditch the wedding in Leo's new Porsche.

In October of 1960, Nathan McCann is a childless, unhappily married, middle-aged accountant who finds an abandoned baby while walking through the woods on the way to go duck hunting. His hunting dog acts strangely and leads him to the infant buried in leaves under a tree. Nathan rushes the baby to the hospital.

James Andrew Miller's Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency is an oral history of Creative Artists Agency, one of the most powerful talent agencies to emerge in the entertainment industry over the past 40 years. Miller interviewed agents, actors, musicians, and executives who worked at or with CAA. He arranges excerpts from their interviews to provide a narrative of CAA's history from its beginning to 2016.

Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party is a history of the Democratic Party, which author Dinesh D'Souza argues is the source of all evil and iniquity in American history. Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee for president, is a crook who entered politics for personal gain. As such, she is the natural representative of the corrupt Democratic Party.

Simon Sebag Montefiore's The Romanovs: 1613-1918 is a chronicle of the Romanov dynasty over its 300-year reign in Russia. The book focuses on the personalities, choices, and actions of the royal family, including their sexual and romantic relationships. Montefiore provides extensive quotations from the letters and diaries of the Romanovs, many of them unpublished. By telling the story of the Romanovs, Montefiore also tells the story of Russia's rise to empire.

Everybody's Fool, a novel by Richard Russo, is set in the fictional town of North Bath in upstate New York. There, over the course of one weekend, a crew of local eccentrics juggle long-standing grudges, acute crises, and surreal weather events to the best of their limited abilities. Along the way, listeners learn about their troubled pasts. At Hilldale Cemetery, Douglas Raymer, chief of police, arrives late for the interment of a local judge. The service is long, and between the heat and his emotional distress, Raymer's feeling poorly.

One Child provides a compelling personal and journalistic examination of China's infamous one-child policy. Tracing the policy back to its inception, One Child illuminates the myriad impacts it has had on Chinese society - and the dangerous implications it has for the nation's future growth and well-being....

The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman is a novel that follows two families whose lives are closely intertwined. Mort and Abe are brothers who share a two-family house with their respective families in Brooklyn, New York. Unbeknownst to the two men, their wives switch children after giving birth within moments of one another. The story traces the repercussions of that fateful night during the time between 1947 and 1970.

The Girls by Emma Cline is a novel loosely based on the events leading up to the Manson Family murders in the summer of 1969. Lured by sexual desire and the prospect of female friendship, Evie Boyd, an unhappy 14-year-old, spends a large chunk of her summer colluding with a cult. Some 40 years in the future, an unexpected encounter causes Evie to reflect on that experience at length.

The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump offers business advice and strategy through the lens of Trump's business deals and development projects as head of the Trump Organization. There is no typical week or project in Trump's work. His days are filled with phone calls and impromptu meetings, but the variety of relationships and investments he details paint a picture of how Trump cuts deals and earns multiple millions....

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans is a self-help guide for people seeking to improve their lives and careers by thinking like designers. The book aims to spread the lessons taught in the authors' Designing Your Life course at Stanford University, which helps students design their postgraduate lives.

Super Genes by Deepak Chopra and Rudolph Tanzi is a scientific and spiritual overview of epigenetics, a field that studies the environmental factors that change the expression of genes. For example, DNA methylation may inactivate genes through the attachment of methyl groups to the chromosomes. These changes may occur as a result of experiences by the parents, such as famine, or from factors of children's upbringing, such as attentiveness of parenting.

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Putin Country is an account of foreign correspondent Anne Garrels' travels in, and study of, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Chelyabinsk is a region of south central Russia located at the southern end of the Ural mountain chain, on the border of Europe and Asia. Although cosmopolitan Moscow is familiar to European and Western observers, Chelyabinsk is more typical of Russia as a whole, not least in its support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In 1925, young Teddy goes for a walk with his Aunt Izzie. He tries to share his love and knowledge of things in nature with her, but she does not seem interested. Teddy is upset by the fact that Izzie claims to have eaten a skylark. Izzie asks him questions about his likes and dislikes. She later uses his answers to write a series of books loosely based on him even though the main character is nothing like Teddy. Teddy hates the books and the fact that they are dedicated to him.

Deep Down Dark is a narrative nonfiction book by journalist and novelist Héctor Tobar. The book tells the story of 33 miners trapped in a caved-in mine in Northern Chile starting on August 5, 2010. They stayed underground for 69 days. The miners' personal stories of their months trapped in the mine are complemented by tales of what the miners' families and the public experienced on the surface during the ordeal as well as by an in-depth recounting of the successful rescue effort.

Wild chronicles Cheryl Strayed's adventure of self-discovery in the wilderness. The book begins 38 days into her three-month odyssey on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Her too-tight boots were destroying her feet. After accidentally knocking one off a mountainside, she tossed the other away. In this way, they become symbols for her former life that hemmed her in.

In Trump We Trust is conservative pundit Ann Coulter's wholehearted endorsement of Donald Trump in his bid for the presidency in 2016. While Coulter acknowledges that Trump may not be the polished candidate of the Republican Party's dreams, she supports him as the only person who can save conservative America and bring its values into the White House.