Beyond Reason' presents one of the most comprehensive and rigorously researched refutations of the major Right-wing misconceptions, delusions, and outright lies that have come to dominate the discourse and policies of conservative politics. Conservatives inhabit an alternative reality in which Obamacare establishes “death panels,” waves of criminals are finding their way over the Mexican border, tax cuts for the rich benefit the middle class, Liberals are waging a war on Christianity, voter fraud is eroding our democracy, and climate change isn’t happening. In 'Beyond Reason,' author J.P. Bernbach meticulously dismantles each of these arguments and more. Bernbach does more than simply correct the record on dozens of dangerous falsehoods, he demonstrates that the current brand of American Conservatism is completely detached from, and indeed hostile to, reality itself – an ideology beyond reason. Written in a tough, but reasonable tone, lightened throughout by flashes of wit, 'Beyond Reason' is essential reading for anyone who is fed up with all the right-wing spin, hype, hysteria, and plain nonsense that prevents reasonable debate about the actual challenges facing America today.

Beyond Reason

Politics & Social Sciences

Bernbach, Jp

Philosophy

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Washington Dc has never seen a mayor quite like Wendell P. Watson - coke snorting, contract skimming, Shakespeare quoting, womanizer, who has somehow wielded his power for three consecutive terms, and is working on a fourth. His re-election platform contains many outrageous plans, including a plot to make Washington D.C. the 51st state. But one night, Watson's legacy comes undone when he invites Sharon Scott up to his room for a drink. Things go too far, too fast, and after Sharon clobbers Mr. Mayor with an ashtray, he sets his burly security guards on her. Evelyn Boone has been sent on a secret mission to steal Watson's paperwork for a major city contract, and accidentally witnesses Sharon's murder. What started off as a simple assignment turns into an extremely complex situation when she is spotted. Watson orders the guards to kill her too. Evelyn narrowly escapes, and a wild goose chase begins across four states. Evelyn attempts to outsmart Watson's men in a deadly game of hide and seek, and along the way ends up entangled with the Fbi, a hit man, and even a well-known actor. Very loosely inspired by actual events, debut authors Lee Hurwitz and Tim Treanor have written a darkly hilarious political satire that irreverently dissects a mayor's misguided nature and ultimate fall from grace.

Capital City

Literature & Fiction

Hurwitz, Lee

Humor & Satire

Blood Work, The New Rugged Cross (Dinosaur Heaven Quintet)

Joseph, Henry

United States

Dinosaur Heaven (Dinosaur Heaven Quintet)

Genre Fiction

Out Law Custom (Dinosaur Heaven Quintet)

The Om and The Crossbones (Dinosaur Heaven Quintet)

The Well Spent Death of Eightball Barnett (Dinosaur Heaven Quintet)

Andy Broussard, medical examiner for New Orleans, is at a family picnic when his Uncle Joe is murdered. The murderer then commits suicide. The task is therefore to simply discover motive, but events take a bizarre turn. Along with Dr. Kit Franklyn, Broussard races to uncover the truth behind the most audacious mystery of the entire series.

Assassination at Bayou Sauvage (Broussard & Franklyn Medical Mysteries)

Donaldson, D.J. (Don)

Chip Hale, a former Navy Sea Bee and Vietnam Veteran, is a blue-collar worker who is as hard as a titanium pop-rivet, except where it comes to raising his two wise-cracking, techno-savvy, teenage granddaughters. He is also fond of using metaphors and similes that relate to the construction industry, and quoting his grandmother's wisdom. There is also a further softness displayed when he composes the occasional poem. In the first book of the Handyman Mystery Series, Chip is faced with a cold case that rapidly heats up when a handyman hunts for his daughter's killer after her remains turn up beneath the city's police memorial. He relies on help from his granddaughters, and the expertise of his Handyman Inc. colleagues-an eclectic collection of retired professionals including a former Reno policeman, forensic fire investigator, Navy pilot, defrocked priest, U.S. Treasury agent, and reformed professional burglar, who all work as part time contract handymen-and the 'tools of the trade' greatly assist with finding a solution to the crime.

Tools Of The Trade (1) (Chip Hale Handyman Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Rolfe, Bruce

Mystery

It's 1959. Sixteen year-old Alex Housman has just stolen his fourteenth car and frankly doesn't know why. His divorced, working class, father grinds out the night shift at the local Chevy Plant in Detroit, looking forward to the flask in his glove compartment, and the open bottles of booze in his Flint, Michigan home. Abandoned and alone, father and son struggle to express a deep love for each other, even as Alex fills his day juggling cheap thrills and a crushing depression. He cruises and steals, running from-and then forcing run-ins with-the police, compelled by reasons he frustratingly can't put into words. And then there's Irene Shaeffer, the pretty girl in school whose admiration Alex needs like a drug in order to get by. Broke and fighting to survive, Alex and his father face the realities of estrangement, incarceration, and even violence as their lives unfold toward the climactic episode that a 'New York Times' reviewer called “one of the most profoundly powerful in American fiction.”

The Car Thief

Weesner, Theodore

Literary

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