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Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science By Natasha Piano

A searing argument—and work of meticulous scholarship—about how American political scientists misinterpreted the elite theory of democracy and in so doing made our political system vulnerable to oligarchic takeover.Do competitive elections secure democracy, or might...

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On Power By Mark R. Levin

The eight-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, radio host, and Fox News star Mark R. Levin delivers a profound analysis of the philosophy and structure of powerand the critical impact of liberty on our collective future.Throughout...

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Legends and Soles: The Memoir of an American Original By Sonny Vaccaro

Written in collaboration with six-time New York Times bestselling author Armen Keteyian, Legends and Soles provides context and truth to the sensational media stories and headlines,Vaccaro’s pivotal role in the never-before-told story of the courting and signing of Michael...

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Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America By Michael Luo

4.15 353 ratings61 reviews Strangers in the Land tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a distant land they called Gum Shan­––Gold Mountain. Americans...

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The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream By Blake Gopnik

A fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America’s soulFrom prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a compelling new portrait of America’s first great...

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The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History By Bryan Jones

A highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines.The Southern Fault Line explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic...

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Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands By Lina-Maria Murillo

The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez have confronted various interest groups determined to control...

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Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man with Rats in His Walls Broke Congress By Annie Karni

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “vivid, juicy” (Vogue) fly-on-the-wall account of the epic dysfunction of the American Congress, from the rotating cast of failed Speakers to the MAGA efforts to impeach President Joe Biden to...

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The Women Writers’ Revolution: More than Bloomsbury: The Success of Female Authors during the Interwar Years By Stephen Wade

Explores the challenges, triumphs, and social realities of pioneering women writers in post-WWI Britain.In The Women Writers' Revolution, embark on a captivating journey through the dynamic social fabric of Britain from the aftermath of the...

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Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning By Vanessa Priya Daniel

A much-needed playbook to supporting and retaining women of color in leadership roles to create lasting change in the world, from a former labor and community organizer and founder of one of the nation’s premier...

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Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children By Noliwe Rooks

A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author’s family to show how integration decimated Black school systems and was a disservice to much of the Black...

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Amazons: The History Behind the Legend By David Braund

The idea of the Amazons is one of the most romantic and resonant in all antiquity. Greeks were fascinated by images and tales of these fierce female fighters. At Troy, Achilles' duel with Penthesilea was...

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Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse By Alice Bolin

From the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls (“stylish and inspired”—New York Times Book Review), a sharp, engrossing collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular feminism and steady creep of cults and cult-think into our daily lives.In...

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The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces By Seth Harp

A groundbreaking investigation into a string of unsolved murders at America’s largest military base, and what the crimes reveal about drug-trafficking and impunity among elite special operations soldiersTwo dead bodies were discovered in a forested...

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Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples By Francis Young

The formal conversion to Christianity in 1387 of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania seemingly marked the end of Europe's last 'pagan' peoples. But the reality was different. At the margins, often under the radar, around...

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Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 By Damian Shiels

Damian Shiels’s Green and Blue explores Irish American service in the United States military by analyzing the written correspondence of ordinary rank-and-file soldiers drawn from across the Union’s armed forces. Using a vast and largely untapped collection...

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The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances By Kevin Fagan

A powerful and deeply reported exposé on homelessness in San Francisco, from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and San Francisco Chronicle reporter who has covered homelessness for thirty years and experienced it himself.Housing prices nationwide have skyrocketed, causing...

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Runs in the Family: An Incredible True Story of Football, Fatherhood, and Belonging By Sarah Spain

A revelatory examination of the choices we make as parents and children, told through the eyes of a Black man on a journey to find his biological family and discover where and to whom he truly belongs. Based on Sarah Spain’s viral ESPN...

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Chutzpah: A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality and Daring to Stay By Yehudis Fletcher

Wry and exhilarating, Chutzpah is a fearless exploration of what is possible when one person simply refuses to choose between abandoning their roots and abandoning themselves."Clear-sighted and courageous, with an extremely dry sense of humour"DAVID BADDIEL, author...

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Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and a Forever Promise Forged in World War II By Robert M. Edsel

What happens when you lose your freedom and the people who eventually get it back for you are no longer alive to thank?Set during the horrors of World War II, Remember Us by Robert Edsel—#1 New York Times bestselling...

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Second Front: Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign By Marc Milner

A revelatory new account of the Second World War—and how bitter competition between the Allies would shape the postwar world In June 1944, an Allied army of British, American, and Canadian troops sought to open up...

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Big Mouth By Vogue Williams

"Like hanging with your funniest, sunniest, most sound, wise friend." – Marian KeyesEverything good, bad and downright mad that has shaped Vogue’s life and career is laid bare in Big Mouth.So get ready for sharply observed,...

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Remaking the World: European Distinctiveness and the Transformation of Politics, Culture, and the Economy By Jerrold Seigel

How should we understand Europe's special role in world history, and the enduring impact it made on the rest of the globe? Jerrold Seigel traces both the positive and negative sides of the continent's special...

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Carry On: The Latter-Day Saint Young Women Organization, 1870–2024 By Lisa Olsen Tait

The Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has influenced millions of women across the globe since its founding more than 150 years ago. Carry The Latter-day Saint Young Women Organization,...

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Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship By Tiffany Watt Smith

A smart and thought-provoking memoir, history, and cultural critique about the turmoil and complexity of female friendshipOur culture today is inundated with narratives about the strength of female friendship, whether through images of girl power,...

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So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All By Leisha Hailey

A intimate, hilarious memoir of art, friendship, queerness, and found family by Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey, stars of The L Word—including never-before-shared stories and photos from behind the scenes of the show and their personal...

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Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women...

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No Country For a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer By Jane Dismore

'A fascinating and well-researched biography of a fearless woman, it combines history, adventure and romance. I loved it.' - Lady Antonia FraserLady Dorothy 'Dolly' Mills was a trailblazer, whose larger-than-life personality led her to extraordinary adventures. Born...

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The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence By Jeffrey P. Rogg

A novel and comprehensive narrative of American intelligence from the Revolutionary War to the present day.Intelligence is all around us. We read about it in the news, wonder who is spying on us through our...

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I Am Not a Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese By Daisy J. Hung

‘An important new voice’ DAVID YIP, actor‘A vital resource’ PEYVAND SADEGHIAN, actor and writer‘Important and poignant…A brilliant read’ HELEN TSE MBE, author of Sweet MandarinWhat does it mean to exist at the intersection of cultures?Though a citizen of the...

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The Poisoned Arrow: A Toltec Guide to Overcoming Fear By Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

This new book from beloved author don Miguel Ruiz Jr. teaches us to recognize the ways that fear manifests in our minds, fueling the negative stories we tell ourselves. By becoming aware of our fears,...

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Unmaking Mary: Shattering the Myth of Perfect Motherhood By Chine McDonald

'Astute, smart, witty and brave. A radical, deeply thoughtful and essential intervention'Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence'A deeply valuable reflection on motherhood'Rowan WilliamsFor two thousand years, the Virgin Mary has been depicted throughout art, literature and culture...

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Watch Your Words: A Manifesto for the Arts of Speech By Gérald Garutti

Never before has humanity done so much talking... But is anyone listening? For that matter, are people ever speaking to each other?We need to acknowledge that speech, as we know it, has never been so...

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Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest By Melissa Arnot Reid

A searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking a journey of overcoming where the mountain’s highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soulAt twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted...

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Trying: A Memoir By Chloé Caldwell

If you’re writing about your life in real time, are you inherently fucked?Over the years that Chloe Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she’d read everything she could find on infertility....

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Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA By John Lisle

The inside story of the CIA’s secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves.Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an...

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Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy By Kathleen Thelen

How large American retailers outgrew the capacity of government to regulate themThe United States is widely recognized as the quintessential consumer society, one where huge companies like Walmart and Amazon are famous for enticing customers...

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Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash By Alexander Clapp

A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, this is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade.Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to...

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The Forgotten Era: Nigeria Before British Rule By Max Siollun

'Siollun's books are gripping' - Financial TimesMuch is known about what the Europeans did in Nigeria, yet very little is known about the country before its colonisation. In this surprising history, Max Siollun uncovers a society...

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Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine By Nicole Grajewski

Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has cast a spotlight on Russia's burgeoning partnership with Iran. Moscow looked to Tehran for drones and ammunition to fuel its so-called 'special military operation', and Iran's...

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Josephine Baker's Secret War: The African American Star Who Fought for France and Freedom By Hanna Diamond

The full story of Josephine Baker’s wartime and intelligence work in France and North Africa Before the Second World War, Josephine Baker (1906–1975) was one of the most famous performers in the world. She made her...

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What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea By Fara Dabhoiwala

'Eye-opening, thought-provoking and deeply enjoyable, What is Free Speech? is a work of great profundity and brilliance’ William DalrympleA fresh and exciting approach to one of the most controversial subjects of our time‘Free Speech!’ is a clarion call...

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Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future By Thane Gustafson

The story of Russia's historic opening to the West (1992-2022), where it succeeded and why it has failed, the impact of war and sanctions, and the prospects for Russia's future.Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022...

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Speak, Memorably: The Art of Captivating an Audience By Bill McGowan

The media guru and bestselling author of Pitch Perfect helps professionals break away from canned communications and find their true—and most effective—voice no matter the workplace.The business world has adopted the wrong definition of successful communication. For...

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Words from a Fashion Icon: Marilyn Monroe By Megan Hess

The Fashion Icons Quote Series is a series of gift books full of inspiring and fabulous quotes from fashion icons across the generations.Words from a Fashion Marilyn Monroe is a fully illustrated collection of quotes with...

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The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon By Laurie Gwen Shapiro

A New York Times Editors' Choice • CBS Sunday Morning Summer Book Report Pick • New York Times “Books to Read in July” • A Town and Country Best Book of July • An Amazon Best Book of July • A...

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Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie Schwarzenbach By Padraig Rooney

Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she’s been largely ignored.Born to a wealthy family in Switzerland, as...

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Poetic Faiths: New Religions and Rituals as Works of Living Art By Tony Wolf

Poetic Faiths: New Religions and Rituals as Works of Living Art is an anthology of illustrated interviews with an emergent counterculture of artists and activists who take secular humanism as a given, then ask, “Now...

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