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Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus By Elaine Pagels

From the award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels comes a captivating new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how he inspired a religion that reshaped the world.Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of...

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Sedition: How America's Constitutional Order Emerged from Violent Crisis By Marcus Alexander Gadson

How Americans have weathered constitutional crises throughout our historySince protestors ripped through the Capitol Building in 2021, the threat of constitutional crisis has loomed over our nation. The foundational tenets of American democracy seem to...

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We Hold These "Truths": How to Spot the Myths that are Holding America Back By Casey Burgat

“This book is the crash course in civics that America needs."—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking"Dismantles dozens of myths about American politics in the service of rebuilding...

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Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy By Derek W. Black

The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American SouthFew have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than...

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Dimming the Sun: The Urgent Case for Geoengineering By Thomas Ramge

A groundbreaking, vital examination of a powerful—and extremely controversial—stopgap solution to looming climate catastrophe“It would be great if humanity could forgo solar geoengineering and get climate change under control before the world goes off the...

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99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life By Adam Chandler

An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” This phrase, arguably Thomas Edison’s most famous quote, has...

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Constipation Nation: What to Know When You Can't Go By Carmen Fong MD

A definitive guide to the science and history of constipation across the nation.Most Americans have had constipation symptoms at some point in their lives. Statistics show up to 30% of Americans are affected with chronic...

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For the Love of a Son: A Memoir of Addiction, Loss, and Hope By Scott Oake

From Hockey Night in Canada’s Scott Oake, a raw and honest memoir about his son’s struggle with opioid use and how he turned a father’s worst nightmare into a second chance for others battling addiction.A father’s...

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Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea By Marcus Rediker

A definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroad’s long-overlooked maritime origins, from a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award-winning author of The Slave ShipAs many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors...

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Hoodwinked: How Marketers Use the Same Tactics as Cults By Mara Einstein

Powerhouse marketing expert, narrator of Netflix's Buy Now documentary, shows how today's biggest brands are using cult-like tactics to capture not just your wallet, but your devotion. From viral leggings to must-have apps, Dr. Mara Einstein exposes...

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Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco By Gary Krist

The sensational, forgotten true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco and the trial that epitomized the city's transformation from raucous frontier town into modern metropolis—from the New York...

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Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir By Vidyan Ravinthiran

Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir Kindle Edition by Vidyan Ravinthiran (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition See all formats and editions A perceptive exploration of poetry, race, and otherness from one of our most promising voices in criticism. Vidyan...

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Who Owns the Moon?: And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space By Cynthia Levinson

Today’s teens may travel to the Moon in their lifetimes. This primer on what to know for a future in space combines technology and science with law and policy for a fascinating look at a...

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Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles By Mike Colias

A sweeping portrait of the EV transformation and what it means for all of us. The question is no longer if electric vehicles will happen, or even when they'll happen, but how. Veteran automotive reporter...

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Gettysburg: The Tide Turns: An Oral History By Bruce Chadwick

The definitive oral history of the battle that turned the tide of the Civil War that combines vivid first-hand accounts with rich historical narrative.In late June of 1863, one month after his victory over Union...

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Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics By Margaret Stohl

Inspired by the hit podcast The Women of Marvel and cowritten by the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures, this eye-opening and engaging book celebrates the women who have helped make Marvel one of the most successful...

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It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground By David Litt

* A NATIONAL BESTSELLER * GOODREADS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2025 * TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2025 *A former Obama speechwriter moves to the Jersey Shore and learns to surf with the help...

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The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life By Sophia Rosenfeld

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedomChoice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to...

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The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better By Jenny Anderson

“Our education systems are shortchanging far too many teenagers. This book is brimming with insights on how to change that. It’s an engaging, evidence-based, and practical read about how to develop a generation of lifelong...

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The Devil's Drug: The Global Emergence of Crystal Meth By Teun Voeten

With a combination of thorough investigative journalism, daring fieldwork, and colorful atmospheric sketches, Teun Voeten draws a very detailed and disturbing picture of a drug that is on a rapid international rise.Methamphetamine, commonly referred to...

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Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis By Robert D. Kaplan

An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of...

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The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe By Marlene L. Daut

The essential biography of the controversial revolutionary and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe (1767 - 1820) is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time,...

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Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War By Michael Vorenberg

One historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War—and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and...

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Spring: The Story of a Season By Michael Morpurgo

THE NO 4 SUNDAY TIMES AND NO 1 SATURDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025MICHAEL MORPURGO'S FIRST BOOK OF ADULT NON-FICTION IN FORTY YEARS'A joyous meditation on the season of new beginnings' THE TIMES'Uplifting and enchanting. A celebration of life by...

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Yellow Singing Sail: A Memoir of an Only Child in China By Yinfan Huang

For fans of New Kid and Stealing Home, an unforgettable portrait of childhood during the one-child era in China.In this graphic novel memoir, Yinfan Huang describes growing up as an only child in China in...

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A Life in Fifty Books: A Publisher's Memoir By Anthony Cheetham

'There are good publishers and there are great publishers. And then there's Anthony Cheetham.' Richard DawkinsIn November 1966, by way of Mexico City, Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and a Norwegian raspberry farm, Anthony Cheetham...

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My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy By Edward Hirsch

From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet's coming-of-age.“My...

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Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma By Melanie Shankle

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Nobody’s Cuter than You comes a poignant, deeply personal story about trusting God to heal generational wounds so you can be a strong, loving presence for your teenage daughter.“Written...

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The Snag: A Mother, A Forest, and Wild Grief By Tessa McWatt

In her memoir The Snag, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Shame on Me, Tessa McWatt, takes on personal and collective grief, and the solace and inspiration to be found in connecting with nature—and each other.Every day, we...

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All the Parts We Exile: A Memoir By Roza Nozari

Longlisted for the Toronto Book AwardFrom a queer Muslim woman and artist, a generous, heartfelt and insightful memoir about family and finding the path to one's truest self.The youngest of three daughters, and the only...

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Marinovich: Outside the Lines in Football, Art, and Addiction By Todd Marinovich

"A brutal look at the tragedy of addiction . . . Details the one-time prodigy’s athletic highs in high school and college and his subsequent lows." —BooklistOne of the most misunderstood professional athletes of his generation,...

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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America By Brian Goldstone

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working...

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What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife By Robert Garland

An entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death—and what we might learn from themA lively story of death, What to Expect When You’re Dead explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a...

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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering By Daniel Light

A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth. Whether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had...

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Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder By Philip Marsden

Discover the wonders and perils of the earth’s precious metals—what they have offered us as humans, and how they’ve forever changed our relationship with the world around usThe ground beneath our feet is full of...

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The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History By Nir Arielli

A human history of one of the planet’s most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their...

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Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America By Jane Borden

An “engrossing, unputdownable” (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a...

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How I Found Myself in the Midwest: A Memoir of Reinvention By Steve Grove

A passionate testimony to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Midwestern native shares hope in going local.Just after turning forty, Steve Grove left Silicon Valley as a Google executive to move...

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Crush: My Year as an Apprentice Winemaker By Nicholas O'Connell

In Crush Nicholas O’Connell provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily operations of some of the world’s most prestigious wineries on the West Coast. This insider’s view of the wine world includes the intense competition for the...

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Harbingers: What January 6 and Charlottesville Reveal About Rising Threats to American Democracy By Timothy J. Heaphy

A clear-eyed assessment of where we go from here—detailing how to combat misinformation and isolation—from the foremost expert on American political violence“A soulful and significant contribution to defeating the authoritarian threat in America.” — Congressman...

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American Bulk: Essays on Excess By Emily Mester

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024Raised with hoarding and compulsive shopping, Emily Mester is caught in between. What happens when consumption begins to consume you back? In a series of deeply personal essays, Mester explores how...

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Detransition: The Path Back to Self: Unheard Voices, Hard Truths, and the Journey of Those Who Changed Their Minds About Gender By Ester Emerson

In a world where identity is celebrated but questioning it is taboo, Detransition: The Path Back to Self brings to light the often unheard voices of those who transitioned—and later chose a different path. Through courageous storytelling,...

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El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary By Nora Berend

The life and afterlife of a medieval hero and an exploration of heroism, myth-making and national identity through the centuries.Rodrigo Diaz lived a violently colourful life in eleventh-century Spain. An ambitious military leader, exile and...

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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation By Bennett Parten

Considered one of “the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass), Somewhere Toward Freedom is a groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil...

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Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare By Joshua P. Howe

A friendship between an environmental historian and a chronically ill US Marine yields a powerful exploration into the toxic effects of war on the human body. Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who,...

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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust By Lucy Adlington

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary...

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Baltic The Future of Europe By Oliver Moody

THE MUST-READ BOOK ON THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FLASHPOINT'Magnificent ... As exciting to read as it is important' Peter Frankopan'Fascinating ...essential reading' Helen Thompson'Alarming and uplifting' John KampfnerThe Baltic will decide the course of the West in the...

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Scout Camp: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America By James Renner

In this timely and deeply personal true crime memoir, acclaimed journalist, author, creator of the True Crime This Week podcast, and former Boy Scout James Renner, explores the dark side of an American institution, its pervasive culture...

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