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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskalnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of an evil, worthless parasite. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by relating himself to Napoleon, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose.  

LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R. Levine

Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming, immigration, and more--and illustrates how change, as seen through the conservative lens, is always prudent, and always an enhancement to individual freedom.

Levin's narrative will galvanize readers to begin a new era in conservative thinking and action.

Liberty and Tyranny provides a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for revitalizing the conservative vision and ensuring the preservation of American society.

GREEN HELL by Steven Milloy

Everywhere you look, everything is going green. But soon, this trendy green lifestyle wont be voluntary, it will be mandatory. Milloy shows how the government will soon have you under its green thumb.

The environmental movement has cultivated a warm and fuzzy public image, but behind the smiley-face rhetoric of "sustainability" and "conservation" lies a dark agenda.
 
The Greens aim to regulate your behavior, downsize your lifestyle, and invade the most intimate aspects of your personal life. In this stunning exposé, Steve Milloy unveils the authoritarian impulse underlying the Green crusade. Whether they're demanding that you turn down your thermostat, stop driving your car, or engage in some other senseless act of self-denial, the Greens are envisioning a grim future for you marked by endless privation.

CATASTROPHE by Dick Morris

How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests are transforming a slump into a crash, freedom into socialism, and disaster into catastrophe. 

FLEECED by Dick Morris

How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want To Kill Talk Radio, The Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, And Washington Lobbyists For Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us...And What To Do About It.

In this hard-hitting call to arms, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal the hundreds of ways American tax-payers are routinely fleeced--by the US government.

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR by George Crile

The bestseller, "Charlie Wilson's War" tells what became of the largest covert operation in history. Moving from the back rooms of the US Congress to arms-dealer conventions to the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan and Pakistan, this is a compulsively readable account of the inside workings of the CIA.

AMERICA ALONE: THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT by Mark Steyn

Themes of demography, the unsustainability of the welfare state, a resurgent Islam, and the west's loss of civilizational confidence.

The result is an incisive examination of how the world could look the day after tomorrow, on the brink of a new Dark Ages. Permanence is the arrogant assumption of every era, and ours is no exception. But in Europe, the Middle East and beyond, history is on the march, and moving very quickly.

THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand 

This 1943 novel was Rand's first major literary success. It brought her fame and financial security. The book's title is a reference to Rand's statement that "man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress". After Rand's Atlas Shrugged, the best readers' novel on Modern Library list.

The Fountainhead's protagonist, Howard Roark, is a young architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision. He refuses to pander to the prevailing "architect by committee" taste in building design.

LIBERTARIANISM by David Boaz

David Boaz presents the essential guidebook to the libertarian perspective, detailing its roots, central tenets, solutions to contemporary policy dilemmas, and future in American politics.

LIBERAL FASCISM by Jonah Goldberg

Goldberg's study of the overlap between fascism and ideas of environmentalists, Hollywood, the Democratic Party and other left-wing organs is shocking and hilarious.

He lays low such lights of liberal history as JFK, whose cult of personality, reeks of fascist political theater. Readers may be stopped cold by the parallels Goldberg draws between Nazi Germany and FDR's New Deal.

The book is well-researched, seriously argued—and funny.

WHY MEXICANS DON'T DRINK MOLSON by Andrea Mandell-Campbell

A scathing cautionary tale about Canada's timidity and lost opportunities in confronting international markets.

ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible.

Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus and launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. Atlas Shrugged emerged as a premier moral apologia for capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers (and now listeners) who had never heard capitalism defended in other than technical terms.

CHINA ROAD by Rob Gifford

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three-thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the old Silk Road.

In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book, reporter Rob Gifford, takes the dramatic journey along Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border with Kazakhstan.

Gifford reveals the rich mosaic of modern Chinese life in all its contradictions, as he poses the crucial questions that all of us are asking about China: Will it really be the next global superpower? Is it as solid and as powerful as it looks from the outside? And who are the ordinary Chinese people, to whom the twenty-first century is supposed to belong?

THE INVINCIBLE QUEST by Conrad Black

The life of Richard Milhous Nixon. "Well-researched, readable and judicious." The Economist.
"Black is a deft writer who applies to one of the most influential men of the 20th century what he has learned from a career of sizing up people and their ambitions." The Wall Street Journal

TEN MINUTES FROM NORMAL by Karen Hughes
Counsellor to President Bush, wife and mother. A keenly insightful look at American politics, down-to-earth, warm, often funny and frank voice.

MEMOIRS by Brian Mulroney
Biography of Canada's Progressive Conservative Prime Minister from 1984 to 1993.

THE MYTH OF THE RATIONAL VOTER: WHY DEMOCRACIES CHOOSE BAD POLICIES by Bryan Caplan
An unflinching look at how people vote under the influence of false beliefs, ultimately end up with government that delivers lousy results. Author is an economics professor at George Mason University.

COOL IT: THE SCEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST'S GUIDE TO GLOBAL WARMING by Bjorn Lomborg
The best-informed and most humane advocate for environmental change in the world today. . . . he is only interested in real problems, and he has no patience with media fear-mongering. . . .

BIG RUSS & ME by Tim Russert
Father and son: Lessons in Life. Tim Russert is NBC News' Washington bureau chief, moderator, political analyst, managing editor etc. Russert's easygoing, straight-talking style....a great collection of personal memories.

FREE TO CHOOSE by Milton Friedman
Brilliantly illustrates the crucial link between freedom and the free enterprise economy. How government domination leads to economic stagnation.

THE GOD DELUSION by Richard Dawkins
Called Darwin's attack dog, he explores the existence of God. Evolutionary biologist refutes intelligent design. International best seller.

FREAKONOMICS by Steven Levitt
New York Times best seller. Interesting and unlikely social issues explored by a brilliant and rogue economist. Turns popular conceptions inside out using economic data.

RIGHT SIDE UP by Paul Wells
The story of Stephen Harper's rise and Paul Martin's decline. Witty, irreverent, opinionated, personal, and very very funny. Paul Wells was born in Sarnia and worked for the National Post, McLean's and Montreal Gazette.

100 PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREWING UP AMERICA by Bernard Goldberg
Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore...95 more. Hollywood icons, tenured professors, politicians. Most of them liberals.

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO by Peter Schweizer
Profiles in liberal hypocracy. The liberal left supports lots of policies and principles to correct economic and social injustice, but don't live by what they preach. In depth investigation of private lives.

 

ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES BY NATURAL SELECTION by Charles Darwin, published 1859
Arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary biology. It introduced the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It was controversial because it contradicted religious beliefs which underlay the then current theories of biology.