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Rolf Dobelli is an author and businessman who was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1966. He began his writing career in 2003 as a novelist, with the publication of Fünfunddreissig, but is best known for his nonfictional work, The Art of Thinking Clearly. In 1999, he co-founded getAbstract, a publisher of book summaries and article abstracts.

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Thomas Morris is a London-based medical historian and writer. His first book The Matter of the Heart (2017) recounted the history of heart surgery and was awarded a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award.

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Moneyland (2018) is a revealing – and worrying – examination of the lengths to which the rich and corrupt will go in order to keep their money safe. From Nevadan trusts and Angolan oil fields to Russian assassins and tropical islands, this book tracks dirty money, no matter where it goes.

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Oliver Bullough is an award-winning non-fiction writer from Wales whose work has focused extensively on Russia and Eastern Europe. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Guardian, and on the BBC. He is also the author of The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great.

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Code Girls (2017) is about the thousands of American women who worked as code breakers during World War II. Informed by interviews with over 20 surviving women, archived documents, and recently declassified oral histories, author Liza Mundy details the unprecedented lives of female code breakers in Washington, DC and beyond as well as the American intelligence that led to the success of the Allied war efforts.

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Hidden Valley Road (2020) tells the remarkable story of the Galvin family of 12 children, half of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia. Remarkably, the Galvins went on to become one of our best hopes for understanding the biological nature of this often misunderstood mental illness.

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Robert Kolker is a best-selling author and investigative journalist whose work has appeared in publications such as New York Magazine and Bloomberg Businessweek. His highly acclaimed book, Lost Girls (2013), about a series of unsolved killings on Long Island, was adapted into a film of the same name released in 2020.

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Dr. Michael Osterholm is a world-renowned epidemiologist. He is the founding director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota as well as the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health.

Mar Olshaker is a New York Times bestselling writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His previous work on criminal psychology is the basis for the hit television series Mindhunter.

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Profiles in Corruption (2020) challenges us to question and confront the moral integrity of the politicians at the forefront of the modern progressive movement in America. Derived from a range of sources, from financial reports to corporate documentation, eight profiles of the biggest names in left-wing politics tell us a harrowing story of illicit exchanges, cover-ups, and double-crosses.

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Peter Schweizer is an investigative journalist, political consultant, and senior editor-at-large of Breitbart News. He is a five-time New York Times bestselling author whose former titles include Secret Empires and Clinton Cash, which prompted an FBI investigation into the money flowing to the Clinton Foundation.

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Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey are Pulitzer-prize winning journalists best known for their in-depth reporting for the New York Times. Kantor has covered news and politics for major outlets and published the best-selling The Obamas (2012). Twohey’s investigative work has appeared in Reuters, the Chicago Tribune and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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The Education of Brett Kavanaugh (2019) offers a thorough examination of the events surrounding the confirmation process of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Details around Kavanaugh’s time in high school and college are revealed through interviews with former classmates. The authors also explore the tumultuous political climate at the time of the confirmation process and the toll it took on all of the parties involved.

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Kate Kelly is a New York Times reporter who covers Wall Street. She’s also the author of Street Fighters (2009), a best-selling book about the recent financial crisis. She previously worked at CNBC, the New York Observer and the Wall Street Journal. She graduated from Columbia University in 1993.

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Truth (2018) shows us how we live in a world of competing truths, where politicians, activists, corporations and countries tell the stories they’d like us to hear. Identifying the different ways that truth can be used to mislead or inspire, Hector MacDonald draws from history and current affairs to demonstrate how we should wait to see the whole picture before deciding what is “true.”

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Hector MacDonald is a strategic communications consultant who has advised some of the world’s top corporations in the areas of financial services, telecommunications, technology and healthcare. He has also written four novels, including the best-selling thriller The Mind Game.

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Nine Pints (2018) explores the rich but neglected story of blood. Taking a panoramic view and approaching the subject from multiple angles, Rose George looks into the science of blood and details some of the institutions, businesses and taboos that have arisen around this vital fluid.

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Rose George is a British author and journalist, whose work has been published in The Guardian and The New York Times. Her previous books include Ninety Percent of Everything (2013), a look into the international shipping industry, and The Big Necessity (2008), an inquiry into the world of human waste and sanitation.

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