| The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK... by Kaitlyn TiffanyThe Atlantic staff writer Kaitlyn Tiffany's compelling and well-researched history details how three fearless American women became amateur detectives in the 1960s and '70s and antagonized the government to reveal the truth about John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s 1963 assassination. Try this next: The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home by Heath Hardage Lee. |
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Human Raised: Nurturing Connection, Curiosity & Lifelong Learning in the Age of AI
by MD Suskind, Dana
As AI enters nurseries, playrooms, and classrooms, parents are being sold a smart childhood at every turn. This book is a guide to protecting the most important label of all: human raised. In her groundbreaking book Thirty Million Words, Dr. Suskind revealed the extraordinary power of parent talk and interaction in building children's brains. Now, with the advent of artificial intelligence, the stakes of that nurturing interaction have become even clearer. New AI applications demonstrate what technology can replicate--but they also illuminate what it cannot: the capacity of human interaction to build not just children's skills but their very capacity for human connection. Human Raised reveals the possibilities and perils of using AI and related technologies for child-rearing. From monitors that decode cries, to smart cribs that soothe babies to sleep, to interactive chatbots designed to engage an inquisitive toddler, the parenting landscape is shifting fast--and Dr. Suskind helps parents navigate this uncharted territory with clarity and confidence. Human Raised prepares parents to act as essential guardians to the gateway between AI and their children's developing minds--keeping human connection, in all its beautiful imperfection, at the center of childhood.
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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
by Maggie Haberman
Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration's most closely guarded rooms, Regime Change takes the reader inside the Situation Room and into the secret Oval Office deliberations that have launched a new war in the Middle East and seen Trump seal the border, surge National Guard troops into cities, and send immigration agents into deadly clashes with protestors. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan bring us behind the scenes of a presidency that has transformed the culture, turned the Justice Department into an agent of retribution against the President's enemies and the office itself into a brazen vehicle for profit. They reveal a second term propelled by a historical irony that Trump himself has come to understand: that the indictments, the convictions, the assassination attempts, and four years of exile made him not weaker but far more powerful, more vengeful, and more willing to gamble than any President in modern history. This is the story of how Trump has used that power, who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. It is also the story of something American journalists are more accustomed to chronicling in distant capitals than in their own: a President who has fundamentally altered the nature of the office he holds--and, with it, how the rest of the world understands American power. It is an account of Regime Change right here in America--a landmark real-time history of a modern presidency like no other.
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The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose
by Martha Raddatz
For twenty-five years covering America's wars, Martha Raddatz has seen the courage and resilience of the men and women who have been fighting America's wars since 9/11. What motivates them to do such impossible things? How do they find the strength to walk towards danger, to improvise in the heat of the moment and start over when things don't go as planned? The Hero Next Door offers a dozen portraits of servicemen and women who are every bit as inspiring as those of the Greatest Generation. Every one of them has shown awe-inspiring strength of character, faced daunting odds in, and come out stronger. What is it about military service that inspires such selfless service and what can we learn from them? Take Kevin Shaeffer, a naval officer working at the Pentagon on 9/11, whose experience on that day fueled his determination to hunt down Osama bin Laden. Or Mark Little, who swore the day an IED blew up his convoy in Iraq was the best day of his life, wouldn't let the loss of his legs keep him off the ice, and made it his mission, once he'd recovered, to help veterans rebuild their lives when they were down. Or Josh Webster, who dangled by a rope under enemy fire to rescue a fallen officer in the mountains of Afghanistan. Or Rocco Armonda, a highly skilled surgeon who pioneered a new way of treating traumatic brain injury in Iraq. Or Danielle Purple Thiriot and Charles Wingnut Wickware, who, once they started flying, knew exactly what their mission was. Many veterans returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with wounds that never fully healed. There isn't one of them who would say they could have done it alone. Life can turn on a moment, and who's to say what we'll do? That, Martha Raddatz tells us, is when you spot the real heroes: when no one is watching. Individually, their stories are deeply inspiring, she writes. Together, they offer something beyond inspiration: insight into what it means to live with a life-defining courage and sense of purpose.
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I'm Okay If You're Okay: The Chris AuCoin Story
by Jennifer Vaughn
Chris AuCoin was the epitome of strength, bravery, and professional profi ciency, a Marine who later rose through the ranks of the New Hampshire State Police and SWAT Team, securing a reputation for excellence, competency, and dependability. A beloved son, brother, husband, and father of three girls, Chris was an icon in the New Hampshire law enforcement community. Known as the rock, nothing rattled Chris-not the life-or-death nature of his job, his military past, or the medical challenges he endured. Chris was the toughest man anyone knew, until he wasn't. Over the course of a decade, Chris was violent and unpredictable, destructive and dangerous-and then, calm, apologetic, and committed to a restoration of peace. Eventually, the pain became too powerful. One December night in 2022, Chris entered the woods near his home in New Hampshire, burrowed into the frozen frost of the underbrush, and took his own life.This is the recounting of an extraordinarily courageous life, and the cataclysmic impact of addiction, and psychological despair. Filled with personal accounts of those closest to Chris, his story exposes the magnitude of PTSD in our culture, law enforcement communities and military veterans: How a physical specimen of strength and profound achievement can still succumb to the invisible disfigurements of this insidious disease.
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Blizzard of Lies: Karen Read, John O'Keefe, and the Shocking Unsolved Murder in Cop Town, USA
by Dave Wedge
In January 2022, a Boston police officer turned up dead in the snow, seemingly a victim of a simple hit-and-run. But Officer John O'Keefe's death kicked off a scandalous whodunit that invited federal scrutiny and triggered nationwide outrage. The explosive story of O'Keefe's death, and the subsequent accusation and trial of his girlfriend Karen Read, ignited one of the most high-profile true crime mysteries in decades. The apparently open-and-shut manslaughter case quickly devolved into a chaotic mixture of lies, institutional corruption, and police cover-ups that threw the Massachusetts law enforcement scene into turmoil. And Read's 2025 acquittal left O'Keefe's death an unresolved mystery, with more questions than answers. With dramatic twists including a rogue journalist, a mistrial, and polarizing public protests--along with revelations that called several other murder cases into question--Blizzard of Lies is a Boston-area veteran reporter's detailed and immersive account of one of the most controversial crime stories of his career.
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The Land and Its People: Essays
by David Sedaris
In The Land and Its People, Sedaris investigates what it means to be a traveler, a brother, a lifelong friend. Trying on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh's hip-replacement surgery, he both succeeds and fails. He covers ground with his friend Dawn and challenges her to eat a truck tire. A ambivalent Duolingo bot becomes his unlikely confidante as he attempts to describe his family in a foreign language. Ever adding to his list of Countries I Have Been To, he rides a horse named Tequila in Guatemala, buys a bespoke priest's cassock in Vatican City, and goes on safari in Kenya without taking a single photo. Time takes its toll: scrolling through his address book, he counts those he couldn't bear to outlive, and realizes how many are already gone. He is bitten by a dog and insulted by a wee train passenger. A woman on the street late at night either sexually harasses him or doesn't. It's easy to agree with the lady waving a sign that reads, Enough Is Enough. And yet, life holds much to delight in: the massive testicles of a ram, a trip abroad with his sisters, a really excellent reptile video, a pair of well-made cotton underpants. Throughout these essays--at once acerbic and tender, playful and profound--Sedaris shows how much there is to marvel at when you keep your head up and your eyes open, observing with warmth and curiosity our fascinating human species and the lands we inhabit.
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