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  The Tomorrow Series: Book 1

  Tomorrow, When the War Began

  by John Marsden

  When Ellie and her friends go camping, they have no idea they're leaving their old lives behind forever. Despite a less-than-tragic food shortage and a secret crush or two, everything goes as planned. But a week later, they return home to find their houses empty and their pets starving. Something has gone wrong--horribly wrong. Before long, they realize the country has been invaded, and the entire town has been... (more)
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  Decision Points

  by George W. Bush

  President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life. Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas... (more)
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  Bush at War: Book 3

  State of Denial

  by Bob Woodward

  "Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year.'' This was the secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006. The forecast of a more violent 2007 in Iraq contradicted the repeated optimistic statements of President Bush, including one, two days earlier, when he said we were at a ''turning point" that... (more)
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  Fiasco

  The American Military Adventure in Iraq

  by Thomas E. Ricks

  The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the... (more)
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  The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty

  by Kitty Kelley

  They have wielded enormous financial power and dominated world politics for more than half a century. They have been appointed to positions of great power and have been elected as governors, congressmen, senators and presidents. They have shaped our past and, with our country at war under the leadership of their number one son, they are, more critically than ever, shaping our future. As the Bush family has risen... (more)
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  Bush at War: Book 2

  Plan of Attack

  by Bob Woodward

  Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering over two years, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war... (more)
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  The One Percent Doctrine

  by Ron Suskind

  Relying on unique access to former and current government officials, this book will reveal for the first time how the U.S. government - from President Bush on down - is frantically improvising to fight a new kind of war. Where is the enemy? What have been the real victories and defeats since September 11? How are we actually fighting this war and how can it possibly be won? Little, in fact, has been revealed... (more)
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  Bush at War: Book 1

  Bush at War

  by Bob Woodward

  Bush at War reveals in stunning detail how an untested president with a sweeping vision for remaking the world and war cabinet members often at odds with each other responded to the September 11 terrorist attacks and prepared to confront Iraq. Woodward's virtual wiretap into the White House Situation Room is the first history of the war on terrorism.
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  Blackwater

  The Rise of the Most Powerful Mercenary Firm in the World

  by Jeremy Scahill

  Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready, Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the "global war on terror"-- yet most people have never heard of it. It was the moment the war turned: On March 31, 2004,... (more)
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  The Dark Side

  The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

  by Jane Mayer

  A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the "War on Terror" In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser... (more)
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  Family of Secrets

  The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America

  by Russ Baker

  The long-hidden story of a family we thought we knew—and of a power-making apparatus that we have barely begun to comprehend. After eight disastrous years, George W. Bush leaves office as one of the most unpopular presidents in American history. Russ Baker asks the question that lingers even as this benighted administration winds down: Who really wanted this man at the helm of the country, and why did his... (more)
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  The Price of Loyalty

  George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill

  by Ron Suskind

  Updated with a new afterword and including a selection of key documents, this is the explosive account of how the Bush administration makes policy on war, taxes, and politics -- its true agenda exposed by a member of the Bush cabinet. This vivid, unfolding narrative is like no other book that has been written about the Bush presidency. At its core are the candid assessments of former Secretary of the Treasury... (more)
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  Walkabout

  by James Vance Marshall

  One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is the story an adolescent girl and her eight-year-old brother, sole survivors of an air crash in the Australian desert. They meet an Aborigine boy who cannot speak any English but shows them how to stay alive.
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  A Pretext for War

  9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies

  by James Bamford

  In A Pretext for War , acclaimed author James Bamford–whose classic book The Puzzle Palace first revealed the existence of the National Security Agency–draws on his unparalleled access to top intelligence sources to produce a devastating expos? of the intelligence community and the Bush administration. A Pretext for War reveals the systematic weaknesses behind the failure to detect or prevent the 9/11... (more)
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  Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

  by Seymour M. Hersh

  Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijackers... (more)
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  Hubris

  The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War

  by Michael Isikoff

  THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE INVASION OF IRAQ Filled with news-making revelations that made it a New York Times bestseller, Hubris takes us behind the scenes at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, State Department, and Congress to show how George W. Bush came to invade Iraq - and how his administration struggled with the devastating fallout. Hubris connects the dots between Bush's expletive-laden outbursts at... (more)
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  The Bush Tragedy

  by Jacob Weisberg

  This is the book that cracks the code of the Bush presidency. Unstintingly yet compassionately, and with no political ax to grind, Slate editor in chief Jacob Weisberg methodically and objectively examines the family and circle of advisers who played crucial parts in George W. Bush’s historic downfall. In this revealing and defining portrait, Weisberg uncovers the “black box” from the crash of the Bush... (more)
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  The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

  by Vincent Bugliosi

  Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi has written the most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking book of his storied career. In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder , Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers... (more)
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  Where Men Win Glory

  The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

  by Jon Krakauer

  The bestselling author of "Into the Wild", "Into Thin Air", and "Under the Banner of Heaven" delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey.
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  Courage and Consequence

  by Karl Rove

  Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's presidency, recounts his controversial journey through Republican politics and into the White House.