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Not If I Can Help It: A Family Lawyer’s Battles for Justice for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Poor By Meg Groff

Meg Groff dedicated forty years of her life to fighting for justice for victims of domestic violence in rural and suburban Pennsylvania. Not If I Can Help It recounts some of the most harrowing, infuriating, yet inspiring...

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Dreaming in Ensemble How Black Artists Transformed American Opera By Lucy Caplan

A revelatory new account of Black innovation in American opera, showing how composers, performers, and critics redefined the genre both aesthetically and politically in the early twentieth century.The inauguration of a “golden age” in Black...

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Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement By Ashley Howard

In the nation’s so-called heartland, racism is sometimes subtler than in other parts of the country but just as insidious. When Black communities across the United States went up in flames in the 1960s, Midwest...

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Henry's Classroom: A Special Education in American Motherhood: A Memoir By Amy Mackin

Over 7 million students ages 3-21 across the United States receive special education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Amy Mackin's son, Henry, is one of them. As she navigates the medical, social, and educational...

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Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir By Jeffrey Seller

A coming-of-age tale from one of the most successful American producers of our time, Jeffrey Seller, who is the only producer to have mounted two Pulitzer Prize–winning musicals—Hamilton and Rent.Before he was producing the musical hits of...

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Boat Baby: A Memoir By Vicky Nguyen

In a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter...

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Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins By Niayesh Afshordi

“Excellent.”—Steven Poole, The Wall Street Journal • “Terrific.”—Liz Else, New Scientist (Best Popular Science Books of 2025) • “A brilliant overview of the state of modern cosmology.”—Alex O'Connor, alexoconnor.com • “This will expand readers’ minds.”—Publishers Weekly“An intellectual feast.”—Carlo Rovelli...

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Unholy Sensations: A Story of Sex, Scandal, and California's First Cult Scare By Joshua Paddison

The true story of the first California cult scandalIn 1891, a suffragist and social reformer named Alzire Chevaillier launched a moral crusade to destroy Fountaingrove, a utopian spiritualist community in northern California. Chevaillier accused the...

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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families By Judith Giesberg

“[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published ‘last seen’ advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage…a vital work of recovery.” —Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author...

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Silent Catastrophes: Essays on Literature, 1972-1989 By W.G. Sebald

From the renowned author of Austerlitz (named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times) comes the first English translation of his extraordinary essays on the Austrian writers who shaped his life and...

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The Tenacious Nurse Nichols: An Unsung African American Civil War Hero By Eileen Yanoviak

From the horrors of slavery to the battlefields of the Civil War, Lucy Higgs Nichols has become a symbol of resilience and a trailblazer for justice and equality.  There are only two known images of...

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The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths That Shape Us By Ruthie Ackerman

In this propulsive memoir, an award-winning journalist blends history, science, and cultural criticism to uncover whether motherhood outside of society’s rigid rules and expectations is possible—and whether she fits the mold for what a mother...

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Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way By Melissa Radke

From the bestselling author of Eat Cake. Be Brave, a love letter to the strong, opinionated Southern women who raised her and surround us all.Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, and Rose. Chicken-Fried Women is...

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The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing By Joshua Hammer

An “adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike” (The Washington Post) following three free-spirited Victorians on their twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world—from the New York Times bestselling author...

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It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body By Kate Gies

A raw, beautiful memoir of a girl born missing an ear, a medical system insistent on saving her from herself, and our culture’s desire to “fix” bodies.When Kate Gies was four years old, a plastic...

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Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future By Kerry Brown

Taiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book.When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born....

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Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome By Jane Draycott

Jane Draycott reclaims the life story of Fulvia, one of the most powerful women of the late Roman Republic“Light and thorough, wide-reaching and focused, entertaining but not sensationalist.”—Financial TimesFulvia was born into wealth, privilege, and...

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Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant By Pierre Zalloua

An eye-opening investigation into ancestry and origins in the Middle East that synthesizes thousands of years of genetic history in the region to question what it means to be indigenous to any land“Ancestors transcends geography to...

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Texas: An American History By Benjamin Heber Johnson

An exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today When Americans turn on their laptops, play video games, go to church, vote, eat TexMex,...

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Golden State: The Making of California By Michael Hiltzik

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation.”—Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California—from...

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SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to History’s Greatest Screwups By Ed Helms

A New York Times Bestseller From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history’s biggest blunders, complete with lively illustrations.      History contains a...

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Annette Kellerman, Australian Mermaid: The inspiring true story of the swimming champion and Hollywood star, from the bestselling author of SISTER VIV and THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBY By Grantlee Kieza

Champion swimmer, trailblazer and film idol - the adventurous life of our first Hollywood superstar, by the bestselling author of Sister Viv, Mrs Kelly, Hudson Fysh, Banks and Banjo From the moment she was born in 1886, Annette Kellerman was a...

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Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance By Anna Wainwright

Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to the numerous...

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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China By Emily Feng

A “gripping and scrupulously reported” (The Washington Post) investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to Xi Jinping’s definition of who is “Chinese,” from...

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Single and Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman By Caroline Young

From the single ladies of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift songs to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's irreverent television series Fleabag (2016–2019) to as far back as Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, the stereotype of the damaged single woman has long pervaded...

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The Cult of CrossFit By Katie Rose Hejtmanek

Reveals the Christian foundations of CrossFitCrossFit in the United States has become increasingly popular, around which a fascinating culture has developed which shapes everyday life for the people devoted to it. CrossFit claims to be...

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Outmaneuvered: America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare from Vietnam to Afghanistan By James A. Warren

From a celebrated military historian, a “searing…persuasive” (Kirkus Reviews) exploration of why the mighty United States military has repeatedly failed in irregular wars and military campaigns from Vietnam to Afghanistan.Since the early 1960s, the United...

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Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder By Rachel McCarthy James

A brilliant and bloody examination of the axe's foundational role in human history, from prehistoric violence, to war and executions, to newspaper headlines and popular culture.For as long as the axe has been in our...

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Researching Ancestral Crisis in Ireland: A Guide for Family Historians By Chris Paton

Examines Ireland's darkest historical crises over the past 400 years and their impact on our ancestors.Ireland is an extraordinarily beautiful island from which millions can claim their direct ancestry. But Ireland is also an island...

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No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson By Gardiner Harris

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist“A damning portrait.”—Associated Press“A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions...

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Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom By Rebecca Grant

From the award-winning author of Birth, a journey into the underground activist networks that have been working to protect women’s autonomy over their bodies amidst legal, political, religious, and cultural oppression over the past sixty years.In...

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The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking By Leor Zmigrod

Named a best book of the year by The Guardian and The TelegraphWhy do some people become radicalized?How do ideologies shape the human brain?And how can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas?In The Ideological Brain, Leor Zmigrod reveals...

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Failed State: A Portrait of California in the Twilight of Empire By Christopher Moritz

California was once the crown jewel of the American dream: prosperous, innovative, egalitarian, and aspirational. Today, it stands as a dystopian warning of what happens when nihilistic, radical ideology consumes the foundations of governance. In Failed...

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The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia By Karen Elliott House

Based on exclusive interviews, an eye-opening biography of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), head of the House of Saud, the calculating ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a central Middle East power...

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A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins By Gareth Harney

Hold the glory—and infamy—of ancient Rome in the palm of your hand with this “brilliant combination of history and storytelling” (Conn Iggulden, author of the Emperor series) as it explores history’s greatest superpower, as told...

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The Rescuers: The Remarkable People Who Saved World Heritage By Nancy Moses

This book profiles some of the handful of people who rescued significant cultural treasures that would or may have been otherwise lost to humankind. Some, like Dr. Assad, were on a noble mission, but that...

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Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power By Alex Isenstadt

From Axios’ Senior Political Reporter Alex Isenstadt, a fly-on-the-wall account of Donald Trump’s history-defying reelection campaign, illustrating how he overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges to return to the White House. Over the course of the last four years,...

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It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote By Bruce Vilanch

"Bruce Vilanch, a storyteller without peer, has written a tell-all . . . on himself! And it's hilarious! He's finally coming clean and owning up to his part in creating some of the worst television...

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Secular Muslim Feminism: An Alternative Voice in the War of Ideas By Hind Elhinnawy

For over a century, Muslim women have championed their own brand of feminism, rooted in human rights principles and a deep understanding of their diverse cultural contexts. Yet, secular Muslim feminism remains shrouded in misunderstanding and...

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Souvenirs from an Absurd Life: A Memoir By Don Dahler

One man’s unlikely rise from bartender to national television reporter and the incredible adventures he’s had along the way.Hockey great Wayne Gretzky famously noted, “You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.”Don...

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New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement By Juan Williams

With “arresting prose and keen insights” (Donna Brazile, New York Times bestselling author of Hacks), bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement in this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes...

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You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech By Brad Snyder

The story of a young, Black Communist Party organizer wrongly convicted of attempting to incite insurrection and the landmark case that made him a civil rights hero. Decades before the impeachment of an American president...

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Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire By Sarah E. Bond

Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empireFrom plebeians refusing to join the Roman army to...

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TERF Island: How the UK Resisted Trans Ideology By Fiona McAnena

The United Kingdom has been labelled Terf Island - sometimes affectionately and sometimes contemptuously - for its successful resistance to transgender ideology. This is the story of the brave and determined women who led the...

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Saudi Arabia: A Modern History By David Commins

A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present day Saudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, a major player on the international stage and the site...

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Child X: A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology By Jamie Mustard

"A vivid, compelling and heartrending memoir." —Booklist “Evocative . . . Intimate yet universally resonant . . . a powerful memoir that takes us down the darkest corridors of Scientology.” —Kirkus Reviews “Hey, kid. Kid.”...

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Dedicated to the Soul: The Writings and Drawings of Emma Jung By Emma Jung

A richly illustrated collection of never-before-seen writings and drawings from the notebooks, portfolios, and personal papers of C. G. Jung’s wife and collaboratorEmma Jung (1882–1955) was the life and work partner of one of the...

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Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis By Deborah Dwork

A gripping history that plumbs the extraordinary stories of American relief and rescue workers during World War II. Long before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across...

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