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  Glenn Beck's Common Sense

  The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

  by Glenn Beck

  "If you believe it's time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all -- then I ask you to read this book...." In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation's problems. One... (more)
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  Disney Fairies: Book 2

  Beck and the Great Berry Battle

  by Laura Driscoll

  Beck is one of the best animal-talent fairies in Pixie Hollow. There's nothing she likes more than speaking Bird or Chipmunk or Fox or Mole with the animals. Then one day her furry little hummimngbird friend,Twitter, tells her war has broken out between the hummingbirds abd chipmunks. She thinks he's exaggerating- he's always alarmed about something. But soon blackberries start flying. Fairies are getting cought... (more)
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  Pillage: Book 1

  Pillage

  by Obert Skye

  When fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips travels by train to the secluded village of Kingsplot to live with his wealthy but estranged uncle, Beck discovers some dark family secrets. A buried basement, a forbidden wall, an old book of family history with odd references to... dragons? Beck's life is about to be changed forever in this suspenseful tale about the destructive nature of greed and the courage to make things... (more)
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  The 5000 Year Leap

  The 28 Great Ideas That Changed the World

  by W. Cleon Skousen

  The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World. For many years in the United States there has been a gradual drifting away from the Founding Fathers original success formula. This has resulted in some of their most unique contributions for a free and prosperous society becoming lost or misunderstood. Therefore, there has been a need to review the history and development of the making of America in order to... (more)
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  The Christmas Sweater

  by Glenn Beck

  If You Could Change Your Life by Reversing Your Biggest Regrets, Sorrows and Mistakes...Would You? #1 New York Times bestselling author and renowned radio and television host Glenn Beck delivers an instant holiday classic about boyhood memories, wrenching life lessons, and the true meaning of the gifts we give to one another in love. We weren't wealthy, we weren't poor -- we just were. We never wanted for... (more)
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  Scot Harvath: Book 9

  Foreign Influence

  by Brad Thor, Armand Schultz

  After a bus full of Americans is blown up in Rome, Harvath travels to Europe to track down a man known as the Troll, who's been implicated in the bombing. Meanwhile, a Chicago cop who somehow moonlights as an attorney for private clients, seeks to identify the Middle Eastern–looking man who ran down a woman with his cab.
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  Alex Hawke: Book 6

  Warlord

  by Ted Bell

  Counterspy Alexander Hawke races to stop a madman hell-bent on murdering the British royal family in this latest spellbinding action thriller in Ted Bell’s New York Times bestselling series. Alex Hawke, one of the most dashing and compelling action heroes in all of thriller fiction, faces his most formidable challenge yet in Warlord , a gripping, white-knuckled adventure told with verve and... (more)
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  Meltdown

  A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse

  by Thomas E. Woods

  If you are fed up with Washington boondoggles, and you like the small-government, politically-incorrect thinking of Ron Paul, then you'll love Tom Woods's Meltdown . In clear, no-nonsense terms, Woods explains what led up to this economic crisis, who's really to blame, and why government bailouts won't work. Woods will reveal: * Which brave few economists predicted the economic fallout--and why nobody listened *... (more)
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  A Patriot's History of the United States

  From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror

  by Michael Allen, Larry Schweikart

  For at least thirty years, high school and college students have been taught to be embarrassed by American history. Required readings have become skewed toward a relentless focus on our countryÂ’s darkest moments, from slavery to McCarthyism. As a result, many history books devote more space to Harriet Tubman than to Abraham Lincoln; more to My Lai than to the American Revolution; more to the internment of... (more)
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  Nick of Time

  by Ted Bell

  Nick of Time is the first young reader's book written by bestselling author Ted Bell. In the grand tradition of epic novels like Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island comes a wondrous tale of time travel, adventure, and riches, in which twelve-year-old Nick McIver sets out to become “the hero of his own life.” The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war. Nick and his younger sister, Kate, live in a... (more)
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  Beck : Beautiful Monstrosity

  by Julian Palacios

  Beck Hansen's single "Loser" was the anthem of the slacker generation and since then he has had two million-selling albums "Mellow Gold", and "Odelay", both considered to be amongst the best albums of the 90s, and won a handful of Grammys and Brits. His concerts are always sell-outs. Beck's life story is as extraordinary as the records he produces. His grandfather was one of the leaders of the 1960s avante-garde... (more)
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  The Real George Washington (American Classic Series)

  by Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison

  The Real George Washington: The True Story of America s Most Indispensable Man There is properly no history; only biography, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. If that is true of the general run of mankind, it is particularly true of George Washington. The story of his life is the story of the founding of America. His was the dominant personality in three of the most critical events in that founding: the Revolutionary... (more)
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  Arguing with Idiots

  How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

  by Glenn Beck

  #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio and tv host Glenn Beck's ultimate handbook for tackling and winning life's most important arguments.
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  Little Pink House

  A True Story of Defiance and Courage

  by Jeff Benedict

  Suzette Kelo was just trying to rebuild her life when she purchased a falling down Victorian house perched on the waterfront in New London, CT. The house wasn't particularly fancy, but with lots of hard work Suzette was able to turn it into a home that was important to her, a home that represented her new found independence. Little did she know that the City of New London, desperate to revive its flailing... (more)
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  An Inconvenient Book

  Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems

  by Glenn Beck

  The world is a mess. It seems that every time you turn around, there's another problem: Iran is developing nuclear capabilities. Public schools actually seem to be making our kids dumber. Charlie Sheen has a hit sitcom. Obesity is a national epidemic. The divorce rates is rising faster than gas prices. Did you hear me--Charlie Sheen has a hit sitcom! This just barely scratches the surface. Sadly,... (more)
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  Disney Fairies: Book 13

  Fawn and the Mysterious Trickster

  by Laura Driscoll

  FAWN LOVES PRACTICAL JOKES. She’s by far the best prankster in all of Pixie Hollow. Then her friend Beck plays a trick of her own that spooks the fairy dust off Fawn. Fawn would never let a good joke go unanswered, and in the blink of a dragonfly’s eye, the two fairies in an all-out practical joke battle! Prank follows prank until one night someone turns all the furniture in Fawn’s room upside down. And Beck... (more)
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  America's Prophet

  Moses and the American Story

  by Bruce Feiler

  The exodus story is America's story. Moses is our real founding father. The pilgrims quoted his story. Franklin and Jefferson proposed he appear on the U.S. seal. Washington and Lincoln were called his incarnations. The Statue of Liberty and Superman were molded in his image. Martin Luther King, Jr., invoked him the night before he died. Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama cited him as inspiration. For four... (more)
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  Pinheads and Patriots

  Where You Stand in the Age of Obama

  by Bill O'Reilly

  When Bill O'Reilly interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential elections, the two had a lively debate about the nation's future. Since that time, America has changed rapidly—some would even say seismically. And many believe these shifts are doing more than just rocking the political and social climate; they're rocking the American core. What are these changes? Who, in addition to... (more)
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  Lies the Government Told You

  Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

  by Andrew P. Napolitano

  What new crisis will the federal government manufacture in order to acquire more power over individuals? What new lies will it tell? Throughout our history, the federal government has lied to send our children off to war, lied to take our money, lied to steal our property, lied to gain our trust, and lied to enhance its power over us. Not only does the government lie to us, we lie to ourselves. We won't admit... (more)
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  The Coming Insurrection

  by Comité Invisible (The Invisible Committee)

  Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy. . . . We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it. —from The Coming Insurrection The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe.... (more)