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  • How to Close a Camp

    Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention

    by John Washington ...
    An urgent polemic and practical guide to dismantling the immigrant detention systemMasked federal agents are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, on the streets and behind the bars of hundreds of detention centers across the country. In How to Close a Camp, award-winning journalist and translator John Washington offers a galvanizing, clear-eyed case for why we must close these camps—and how to do ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Case for Open Borders

    by John Washington ...
    A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, at least 60,000 people have died or gone missing ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • THE BEGINNING OF THE WEB

    How Magicians Stayed Up Late to Create the Internet

    by John Washington ...
    Welcome to "THE BEGINNING OF THE WEB: How Magicians Stayed Up Late to Create the Internet"! This book tells the fascinating story of the early days of the internet, when a small group of visionaries, engineers, and magicians came together to create a revolutionary new technology.In this book, you'll learn about the people who made the internet possible, their struggles and triumphs, and how they ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Authorization

    by John Washington ...
    Series Book 1 - The Authorization
    When a decades-old secret surfaces and drags an ordinary man into the crosshairs of powerful forces, he must untangle a web of lies and betrayal before the truth is buried forever. The Authorization launches John Washington III's explosive new thriller series - a high-stakes conspiracy story packed with relentless pacing, razor-sharp twists, and a fight for survival that reaches the highest levels ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Dispossessed

    A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond

    by John Washington ...
    The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration’s assault on asylum protectionsArnovis couldn’t stay in El Salvador. If he didn’t leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning—that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. “It was like a bomb exploded in my life,” Arnovis said.The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • They Knew Lincoln

    by John E. Washington ...
    Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in Washington, DC, and of the black people who knew or encountered Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Washington recounted stories told by his ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Son Returns

    by John Washington ...
    Series Book 10 - The Authorization
    Sixty years after John Washington III walked into a private meeting with French President Antoine Beaumont at a chateau, history still does not agree on what happened. Staff accounts contradict each other, the study showed no sign of a struggle, and only one man walked out to the black Citroën - witnesses cannot agree which man it was. Beaumont returned to Paris visibly shaken, cancelled ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Authorization

    The Authorization, #1

    by John Washington III ...
    Series Book 1 - The Authorization
    CIA officer John Washington III sits in a windowless room and watches twelve men sign off on a plan to attack America and blame Cuba. He's the only one who says no — and it costs him everything. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wrong Man

    by John Washington ...
    Series Book 8 - The Authorization
    President Richard Halston is shot in Dallas, and John Washington III, who was in Dealey Plaza, learns of his death on television in a bus station. Police quickly arrest twenty-four-year-old former Marine Thomas Riggs and declare he acted alone, but John saw the sixth-floor window empty and undisturbed and watched a calm professional walk away from the plaza. With Dallas detective Harlan Pryce, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Magnetic Tape Miracle: The Sound of Paper

    Fritz Pfleumer, Iron Oxide, and the 1920s German Invention That Birthed Modern Data Storage

    by John Washington ...
    In the 1920s, the cutting-edge technology for recording audio involved massive, heavy steel wires that were incredibly difficult to edit and prone to violently snapping and injuring engineers. An Austrian-German engineer named Fritz Pfleumer changed the world not by improving the steel wire, but by asking a radical question: could you record a symphony on a piece of paper? Pfleumer had previously ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Network

    by John Washington ...
    Series Book 2 - The Authorization
    From a borrowed hangar, fired officer John Washington III is building a picture he cannot yet prove. On a corkboard wall he has pinned photographs of twelve men, surveillance notes, and Norfolk flyover photographs - a trawler, antennas, and trucks on a pier - around a single name: Operation Sentinel. Watched in shifts by Marsh's people in rotating sedans, John works with pilot Dutch to follow the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Last Mission

    by John Washington ...
    Series Book 9 - The Authorization
    John Washington III, Marcus, Dutch, and a pregnant Claire travel to London to investigate Harbison and Grey, the merchant bank holding Meridian transfer records. Posing as Bank of England auditors, John and Marcus photograph ledgers in the basement room and find money moving from New York through London to Zurich, Liechtenstein, and Panama, marked as council assessments. A seating chart shows ... Read more

    $8.99 USD