The First State of Being

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The First State of BeingWINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL A FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ALA Notable Book for Children Chicago Public Library Best Fiction for Older Readers of 2024 Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2024 for Kids and Teens BookPage Best Middle Grade of 2024 Common Sense Media Best Books of 2024 2025 Excellence in Childrens and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable List When twelve year old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy

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What an enjoyable book. It's not about Trump, it's about people, family and above all hope for the future. Being in manufacturing, I loved his approach to trying to bring it back to America. His funny yet no nonsense approach and outlook is refreshing. He doesn't mince words. I will forever respect the courage it took to do what he did, standing his ground, but the book is so much more! Excellent read!

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Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2025

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Massapequa, US

★★★★★ 5

Worthwhile

Format: Hardcover

Very good read

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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2026

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lorna gladstone

Omaha, US

★★★★★ 5

The real side of prison

Format: Hardcover

An excellent expose of what prison life is like how corrupt it really is and how useless it can be in man.y instances. A good read and so well written the reader can easily slide from chapter to chapter with greatest easy. Highly recommended and with many tips on how to survive in prison if one is ever unblessed enough to called to serve in one. This should be a model prison reforms. Bonnie’s sections are a lovely testament for true love.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2025

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Bradley Thayer

Fort Morgan, US

★★★★★ 5

Navarro Has Written a J'Accuse for Our Time, a Bare-Knuckled Indictment of an Evil System

Format: Hardcover

Peter Navarro has written an exceptional book that should be required reading for those who seek to understand the abuses of the Biden presidency. The book is a poignant love story, an account of great sacrifice, and an illustration of the true totalitarian nature of the Left. It is a J'Accuse for our time. Like Zola's work, it is a bare-knuckled indictment of an evil system. Unlike Zola, this system conspired not against one man, but against the President and many others--in fact, well more than half the country. Navarro's account is a contemporary reminder of the abuses Arendt and Solzhenitsyn identified regarding not only the banality, capriciousness, and brutal incompetence of tyranny, but that one does not realize when it starts how horrific it will become. If the Left is not stopped, what they did to Navarro will segue to even greater abuses against more and more people. I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To is a warning to all Americans of what is at stake and hence is a book that Americans must read.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2025

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ESchool

Lake Worth, US

★★★★★ 5

Find Out Who Was the Legal Secretary

Format: Hardcover

I ordered this book after watching Nuremberg with Michael Shannon and Russell Crowe because I wanted to find out who was the woman accompanying Justice Jackson to Germany. Yes, that was not his wife, it was his legal secretary, Elsie Douglas. This book is the only source I could find that goes into any detail about their relationship. What it provides is nowhere near salacious, because it is evident that Jackson took his secrets to the grave. What details it does provide about the evident love triangle that existed in Jackson's life for many years is quite sufficient to explain the events of Nuremberg.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2026