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9 best books like Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Man Behind Them: How America Went to War in Iraq (Bob Drogin): Before We Were Free, In the Time of the Butterflies, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Echo, The Power and the Glory, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden, Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)

Before We Were Free
AuthorJulia Alvarez
I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you don’t have to fly away from your country?

Anita de la Torre is a twelve-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republic in 1960. Most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared, Papi...
In the Time of the Butterflies
AuthorJulia Alvarez
ISBN0452274427
Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.

From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost...
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
AuthorIbram X. Kendi
ISBN1568584636
Americans like to insist that they are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in America have...
Echo
AuthorPam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN0439874025
Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica.
 
Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven...
The Power and the Glory
AuthorGraham Greene
ISBN0142437301
In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest is on the run. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the nameless little worldly...
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
AuthorEliyahu M. Goldratt
ISBN0884271781
Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world.

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster....
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
AuthorSonia Purnell
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."

The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston...
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
AuthorMark Owen
ISBN0525953728
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment

From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the...
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
AuthorChristian Rudder
ISBN0385347375
A New York Times Bestseller

An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making
 
Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us...
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