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BOOKS
-- TOP 10 RECOMMENDATIONS
RANKING BASED ON LATEST SALES FIGURES
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THE CHRISTMAS SWEATER -- Glenn Beck. Number one 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.
Based on a deeply personal true story, The Christmas Sweater is a warm and poignant tale of family, faith and forgiveness that offers us a glimpse of our own lives -- while also making us question if we really know what's most important in them. Glenn Beck is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Book. He is the host of his own primetime television show on Fox and the nationally syndicated radio show The Glenn Beck Program, which is the third most listened to talk show in America. Visit www.glennbeck.com
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FLEECED:
How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist
Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio,
the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies . . . Are
Scamming Us . . . and What to Do About It --
Dick Morris. In this hard-hitting
call to arms, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal
the hundreds of ways American tax-payers are
routinely fleeced—by our own government;
by foreign countries like Dubai that are gobbling
up American interests and spending millions to
influence government decisions and American public
opinion; by Washington lobbying firms that are
pushing the agendas of corrupt foreign dictators
on Capitol Hill; and by hedge-fund billionaires
collecting huge tax breaks courtesy of the IRS.
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BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY: A Memior -- Bill
O'Reilly. In
his most intimate book yet, O'Reilly goes back
in time to examine the people, places, and experiences
that launched him on his journey from being a working-class
kid to an immensely influential television personality
and bestselling author. Readers will learn how
his traditional outlook was formed in the crucible
of his family, his neighborhood, his church, and
his schools, and how his views on America's proper
role in the world emerged from covering four wars
on five continents over three-plus decades as a
news correspondent. What will delight his many
fans and surprise many others is the humor and
self-deprecation with which he handles one of his
core subjects: himself, and just how O'Reilly became
O'Reilly. |
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EXTREME
MEASURES: A THRILLER -- Vince Flynn. Vince
Flynn's thrillers, featuring counterterrorism
operative Mitch Rapp, have dominated the imagination
of readers everywhere. In them, Flynn has captured
the secretive world of the fearless men and women,
who, bound by duty, risk their lives in a covert
war they must hide from even their own political
leaders.Now, Rapp and his protege, Mike Nash,
may have met their match. The CIA has detected
and intercepted two terrorist cells, but a third
is feared to be on the loose. Led by a dangerous
mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader
of al-Qaeda, this determined and terrifying group
is about to descend on America. |
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THE
FORGOTTEN MAN: A New History of the Great Depression
-- Amity Shlaes. Shlaes, a prominent
conservative economics journalist, considers why
a decade of government intervention ameliorated
but never tamed the Great Depression. With vitality
uncommon for an economics history, Shlaes chronicles
the projects of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt
as well as these projects' effect on those who
paid for them. Reminding readers that the reputedly
do-nothing Hoover pulled hard on the fiscal levers
(raising tariffs, increasing government spending),
Shlaes nevertheless emphasizes that his enthusiasm
for intervention paled against the ebullient FDR's
glee in experimentation. |
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TRIED BY WAR: Abraham Lincoln as Commander In Chief -- James M. McPherson. Many scholars have described Abraham Lincoln's legacy, but surprisingly few have chronicled his role as Commander-in-Chief. Arguably our premier Civil War historian, James McPherson, whose Battle Cry of Freedom won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, brilliantly remedies this neglect. Tried by War is a fascinating narrative not only of Lincoln's prescient military leadership but also a bird's-eye view of the major military encounters of the Civil War. McPherson has written a perceptive and persuasive volume. |
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RED
HOT LIES: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Force, Fraud,
and Deception to Keep You Misinformed -- Christopher
Horner. The
author of the New York Times bestselling "The
Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming" is
back with an exposé of the hypocrisy, deceit, and outright
lies of the global warming alarmists and the compliant
media that support them. Did you know that most scientists
are global warming skeptics? Or that environmental
alarmists have knowingly promoted false and exaggerated
data on global warming? Or that in the Left's efforts
to suppress free speech (and scientific research),
they have compared global warming dissent with "treason"?
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TOTAL
MONEY MAKEOVER: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
-- Dave Ramsey. Only read this book if
you're tired of the "normal" everyday cycle
of being in debt - being slave to your lenders. Whether
it's credit cards, student loans, car loans, mortgages,
etc. Dave Ramsey lays out a plan to break the cycle,
change your family tree so your children don't think
living paycheck to paycheck and owing huge amounts
of debts is normal. As Dave puts it, if that's normal
then "be weird." Get out of debt and live
in TRUE Financial Peace -- it will change your life. |
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THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS -- Khaled Hosseini. Widely
anticipated follow up to best-selling "The
Kite Runner". Hosseini presents a piognant
view into the recent tortured decades of the Afghan
experience. Hosseini takes us behind those walls
for forty some years of Afghanistan's bloody history.
From the 1970s, under a king, to the Soviet takeover,
to the years of resistance. And then the rise and
fall of the Taliban. The book manages to simultaneously
capture the history of Afghanistan over the last
thirty years and how women are treated in extemist
Islamic societies. In many ways it is a sad book,
your heart goes out to these two women in their
hopeless struggle to have a decent life with a
brutal man in an unforgiving, intolerant society. |
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LIBERAL LIES ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY: (That You Probably
Learned in School) -- Larry Schweikart. Over
the last forty years, history textbooks have become
more and more politically correct and distorted about
our country’s past, argues professor Larry Schweikart.
The result, he says, is that students graduate from
high school and even college with twisted beliefs about
economics, foreign policy, war, religion, race relations,
and many other subjects. As
he did in his popular A Patriot’s History of
the United States, Professor Schweikart corrects liberal
bias by rediscovering facts that were once widely known.
He challenges distorted books by name and debunks forty-eight
common myths. A sample:The
founders wanted to create a “wall of separation” between
church and state, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
only because he needed black soldiers, Truman ordered
the bombing of Hiroshima to intimidate the Soviets
with “atomic diplomacy”, and Mikhail Gorbachev,
not Ronald Reagan, was responsible for ending the Cold
War.
America’s past, though not perfect, is far more admirable than you
were probably taught.
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