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James Alexander Hamilton: Son of the American Revolution By Samantha Wilcoxson

James Alexander Hamilton, son of Alexander, influenced U.S. history, advising leaders and supporting abolition, with personal historical insights.Born in the year of the Constitutional Convention, James Alexander Hamilton was uniquely positioned to observe the early...

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Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine By Sharon Ann Musher

How adventurous Jewish women’s travels upended Jewish normsIn 1922, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, first initiated the bat mitzvah as a rite-of-passage for Jewish girls. Characterized as a lifelong supporter of women’s...

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Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life By Maggie Smith

New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith distills creativity and the craft of writing with a practical guide perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.Drawing from her twenty years of teaching...

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Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags to Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves By Johnathan Walton

These are the 14 red flags to spot the scammer in your life before they con you—from a victim-turned-vigilante and host of the hit podcast Queen of the Con.“Some people play golf on the weekends,” Johnathan Walton says....

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Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare By Tiffany D. Joseph

Examines how health policy shifts fail to fully serve immigrant communities due to structural racism and anti-immigrant rhetoric and enforcement measures.Despite progressive policy strides in health care reform, immigrant communities continue to experience stark disparities...

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High Desert Blood: The 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot and the Tragedy of the Williams Brothers By Andrew Brininstool

When a cocksure father hatches a simple insurance fraud scheme, he has no idea its failure will lead his family into the maelstrom of America’s most violent prison riot. High Desert Blood takes you inside the walls...

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The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958 By David Levering Lewis

National Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis's own family history that shifts our understanding of the larger American storySitting beneath a stained-glass window dedicated to his grandmother in the...

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Odyssey Moscow: One American's Journey from Russia Optimist to Prisoner of the State By Michael Calvey

‘A riveting tale of betrayal and lawlessness by the Russian Government, told by the most successful US investor in Russia’ – Ambassador John Sullivan, US Ambassador to Russia 2020–22It is dawn on Thursday, 14 February 2019,...

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This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir By Zarna Garg

Award-winning comedian Zarna Garg turns her astonishing life story into a hilarious memoir—from narrowly escaping an arranged marriage in India to carving her own path in America and launching a dazzling second act in midlife.Growing up...

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The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess By Meryl Gordon

A deeply researched biography of the socialite, political hostess, activist and United States envoy to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta, from New York Times bestselling author Meryl Gordon.Perle Mesta was a force to be reckoned with. In...

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The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City By Alexis Madrigal

The NPR host Alexis Madrigal reveals how the Port of Oakland explains the world.In Pacific Circuit, the award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking...

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The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound By Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus uses life writing, criticism, biography, and a poet's sense of images that bind and unbind argument, to create a groundbreaking and daring examination of deafness.Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at age...

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Post-Traumatic Parenting: Break the Cycle and Become the Parent You Always Wanted to Be By Robyn Koslowitz

"I want to parent differently than the way I was parented; I know what not to do, but I'm not so sure about what I should do."Every good parent wants to create relationships with their...

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Pioneers: 8 Principles of Business Longevity from Immigrant Entrepreneurs By Neri Karra Sillaman

Unlock the principles that drive the remarkable success stories of immigrant entrepreneurs from around the worldIn 8 Principles of Business Longevity From Immigrant Entrepreneurs, academic, entrepreneur, and consultant, Neri Karra Sillaman, delivers a one-of-a-kind exploration of the...

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Half Agony, Half Hope, But Wholly Free: A Companion Devotional By Joy Michelle Austin

Can healing truly come after unimaginable pain?Can hope still rise from the ruins of the heart?In Half Agony, Half Hope, But Wholly Free, Joy Michelle Austin invites you on a powerful journey through the darkness of...

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The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse By S.L. Price

From “the master of new journalism [who always] hits it over the fence” (New York Times) and “one of the finest writers on sports anywhere” (USA Today), the scintillating story of lacrosse, the game invented...

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Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare By Edward Fishman

The American Private School: A Cultural History is a history of private or independent schools in the United States over the past century. Told chronologically, the book sheds light on the important role that the K-12...

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The American Private School: A Cultural History By Lawrence R. Samuel

The American Private School: A Cultural History is a history of private or independent schools in the United States over the past century. Told chronologically, the book sheds light on the important role that the K-12...

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The Cherokees: In War and at Peace, 1670–1840 By David Narrett

A sweeping new history reveals how the Cherokees became a nation as they navigated a century and a half of intertribal conflicts and colonial expansion that threatened their way of life.For more than 150 years...

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A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire By Jane S. Smith

In A Blacklist Education, a mysterious file of family papers triggers a journey through the dark days of political purges in the 1950s. Jane S. Smith tells the story of the anticommunist witch hunt that sent...

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Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs By José Andrés

A unique collection of life lessons from renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés José Andrés is a chef, an entrepreneur, an author, a television host, and a tireless humanitarian leader across the globe. A Michelin-starred chef...

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The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy By James Patterson

The murders of four innocent college students attending the University of Idaho left us with so many questions. Now, after over 300 interviews, James Patterson and prize-winning journalist Vicky Ward finally have some answers.                We know what it was like to live in Moscow, Idaho, on...

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Baldwin: A Love Story By Nicholas Boggs

Drawing on extensive new archival material, this spellbinding biography reveals how James Baldwin's relationships shaped his work.A Love Story tells the overlapping stories of James Baldwin’s most sustaining with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford...

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The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction―and a Search for Relief By Tom Zeller Jr.

A sometimes harrowing and frequently humorous journey into the author’s own excruciating headaches, and the science behind these surprisingly mysterious disordersVirtually everyone has experienced a headache—a nuisance arising from occasional stress or as payback for...

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The Devil Wears Rothko: Inside The Art Scandal that Rocked the World By Barry Avrich

The Devil Wears Rothko charts the explosive demise of Knoedler Gallery, New York’s oldest and most prestigious art galleries with detailed and salacious insight into one of the world’s largest art frauds.From the moment an eccentric...

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The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir By Sarah Kendzior

The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on a series of road trips,...

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Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America By Jeff Hobbs

From the bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, a powerful portrayal of American homelessness that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to keep her family together...

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A Training School for Elephants By Sophy Roberts

Out of a sidelined, colonial-era expedition in Africa comes a new history of cruelty, deception and adventure from the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of SiberiaIn 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious...

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I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays By Maris Kreizman

A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman—an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the political leftAt the heart of this...

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Matriarch: A Memoir By Tina Knowles

A glorious chronicle of a life like none other—enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering—and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood"You are Celestine," she said. She squatted to push the hair off my face and...

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A Little Daylight Left Poems By Sarah Kay

A vulnerable, searching collection about facing the beautiful and difficult parts of our humanness with curiosity and compassion, from the celebrated spoken word poet Sarah Kay.from somewhere down a hallway of locked doors, a voice...

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Lost in the Stream: How Algorithms Redefined the Way Movies Are Made and Watched By Jeff Rauseo

This engaging book by Jeff Rauseo blends film history with a modern guide to streaming, helping you navigate the complex history of movie making and ultimately how to know what to watch in the vast...

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Lean Learning How to Achieve More by Learning Less By Pat Flynn

Navigate the chaos of information overload and supercharge your efficiency with Lean Learning, a groundbreaking guide that reveals a counterintuitive approach to winning by learning less.From an early age, we’re taught that more is better. More...

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Thirty Below The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali By Cassidy Randall

The gripping story of a group of female adventurers and their treacherous pioneering ascent of Denali in 1970Grace Hoeman dreamed of standing on top of Denali. The tallest peak in North America, the fierce polar...

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Death of a Racehorse: An American Story By Katie Bo Lillis

The inside story of the crisis within the country’s most classic sport—horseracing—and why money is killing thoroughbreds at the top of their game.Every year, hundreds of horses die on the racetrack. Why?In this deeply reported...

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Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance By Laura Delano

The powerful memoir of one woman’s experience with psychiatric diagnoses and medications, and her journey to discover herself outside the mental health industryAt age fourteen, Laura Delano saw her first psychiatrist who immediately diagnosed her with...

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An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence By Zeinab Badawi

Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone.For too long, Africa's history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, Zeinab Badawi sets the record...

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The Fifteen Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America By William Geroux

The revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in...

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The Dry Season A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex By Melissa Febos

From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.“Only Melissa...

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Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation By Adam Kissel

Don’t trust the Ivy League to produce well-educated students. Sticker prices of $80,000-plus buy prestige but not knowledge or wisdom. Just read the course descriptions.Cornell has “transgender animal studies," Cardi B, and "intersectional disability studies."...

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The Neural Mind How Brains Think By George Lakoff

Offers an expansive, unified theory of thought that brings together the vast resources of neuroscience, computation, and cognitive linguistics.What is an idea, and where does it come from? We experience thought as if it were...

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Muse: The Magnetism of Women Who Stop Abandoning Themselves By Amanda Hanson

Women, there is a more beautiful way to live. That begins when you meet your inner Muse.For too long, womanhood has been defined by patriarchal structures that keep us women small, quiet, and at war...

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Stream Big The Triumphs and Turmoils of Twitch and the Stars Behind the Screen By Nathan Grayson

Told through the diverse and fascinating careers of nine streamers, this is the definitive story of Twitch and how the livestream platform revolutionized technology, entertainment, business, and pop culture.With 2.5 million viewers at any given...

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Walter Lippmann An Intellectual Biography By Tom Arnold-Forster

The life and ideas of one of the twentieth century’s leading political thinkersWalter Lippmann (1889–1974) was among the most influential and wide-ranging political writers in modern America. As both a journalist and political theorist, he...

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Spellbound My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith By Phil Hanley

The A-list comedian tells the story of his unlikely path to success while struggling with severe dyslexia.When Phil Hanley entered first grade, he realized something that would forever set him apart from his schoolmates, he...

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Sound Affects How Sound Shapes Our Lives, Our Wellbeing and Our Planet By Julian Treasure

'Transformative and a fascinating read; this book will open your ears to the world of sound and change your life' Steven Bartlett, bestselling author of The Diary of a CEO'A fascinating insight into the power of...

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Gay Arab American and Middle-Eastern Men By Randy Fair

What if you could sit down for coffee with fifteen gay Middle Eastern men and hear their stories—their loves, struggles, and triumphs? This collection invites readers into these conversations, offering an intimate look into the...

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Black Moses A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State By Caleb Gayle

The remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States.In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle recounts the extraordinary tale of Edward McCabe, a...

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