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Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future By Neil Shubin

The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet’s future.“Urgent [and] prescient…The...

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The Countess and the Nazis: An American Family's Private War By Richard Jay Hutto

From American heiress to Nazi resistance fighter, Muriel White's extraordinary journey reveals how one woman's privilege became her weapon against tyranny."This compelling tale traces the intricately intertwined history of American high society with European nobility...

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Code Name: Pale Horse—How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis By Scott Payne

New York Times bestseller • The thrilling true story of one man who risked his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States, an “urgent and exciting look into the life of an FBI...

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Firefly in a Box: An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit: An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit By Anna Krushelnitskaya

Contributions by Marina Balina, Sibelan Forrester, Anna Krushelnitskaya, Dmitri Manin, Svetlana Maslinskaya, Ainsley Morse, and Serguei Alex. OushakineIn Firefly in a Box: An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit, translators Anna Krushelnitskaya and Dmitri Manin present a...

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Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement By Elaine Weiss

In this thought-provoking book, the Black musicians who influenced Elvis Presley's music finally receive recognition and praise.After Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics alike couldn't help but question the Black origins of Elvis...

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Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King By Preston Lauterbach

In this thought-provoking book, the Black musicians who influenced Elvis Presley's music finally receive recognition and praise.After Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics alike couldn't help but question the Black origins of Elvis...

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Can Feminism be African?: A Most Paradoxical Question and a Vision of African Political Philosophy By Minna Salami

4.22 27 ratings9 reviews What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens and feminism through an African one? And what does it mean to centre selfhood in this journey?In this shining, wide-ranging inquiry, Minna Salami...

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A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis By Jeanne Carstensen

Five Days at MemorialmeetsInto the Raging Seain this “vivid snapshot of a broken asylum system” (Kirkus Reviews)—the gripping true story of a devastating shipwreck during the biggest refugee crisis since World War II.On October 28,...

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The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS By Martin Padgett

The little-known story of the man who sparked a groundswell of gay activism after a wrongly decided Supreme Court decision. Michael Hardwick had no idea that when a police officer stood at his bedroom door...

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Faith and the Fragility of Justice: Responses to Gender-Based Violence in South Africa By Meredith Whitnah

South Africa has repeatedly made international headlines because of its high rates of gender-based violence. In the midst of a wide range of responses to the problem, an important voice has been largely absent. Why...

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Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books By Pamela Smith Hill

Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were “too good to be altogether lost.” And those stories seemed far from being lost during the remainder...

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Reading the Waves: A Memoir By Lidia Yuknavitch

The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal."I believe our bodies are carriers of experience," Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir Reading the Waves. "I mean to...

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Rogues and Scholars: A History of the London Art World: 1945-2000 By James Stourton

A colorful and fast-moving account of how postwar London became the global center of the art market—a story of Impressionist masterpieces, dodgy dealers, and ground-breaking financial transactions.On October 15, 1958, Sotheby's of Bond Street staged...

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The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York By Elon Green

The first comprehensive book about Michael Stewart, the young Black artist and model who was the victim of a fatal assault by police in 1983, from Elon Green, the Edgar Award-winning author of Last Call.At twenty-five...

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The Narrowing: A Journey Through Anxiety and the Body By Alexandra Shaker

An exploration of the connection between anxiety and the body by a clinical psychologist, drawing from the latest research as well as historical and cultural insights through time, arguing that only through understanding anxiety’s role...

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Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put By Annie B. Jones

In her first book, the popular From the Front Porch podcast host and independent bookstore owner challenges the idea that loud lives are the ones that matter most, reminding us that we don't have to leave the...

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The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner By Douglas C. Waller

From Douglas Waller, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Bill Donovan, an intimate and expertly researched biography of little-known early CIA leader Frank Wisner, whose behind-the-scenes influence on Cold War policy--and hundreds of highly secret anti-Soviet missions--resonates...

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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb By Garrett M. Graff

“Magisterial…A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga’s surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you...

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The Epic Women of Homer: Exploring Women's Roles in the Iliad and Odyssey By Eirene S. Allen

Reexamines the women of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, restoring their essential roles and challenging traditional heroic narratives.Our earliest written sources for Greek mythology, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, feature women prominently as drivers of the narratives. Though they occupy...

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Last Call for Bud Light: The Fall and Future of America's Favorite Beer By Anson Frericks

The astonishing inside story of how Bud Light lost its position as the most popular beer in the United States from a longtime Anheuser-Busch executive.Anson Frericks, a former president at Anheuser-Busch—formerly the home of America’s...

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The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future By Keach Hagey

"[E]xcellent and deeply reported." ―Tim Wu, New York Times Book Review"The first major biography of tech’s newest titan, this sets a high bar for those to follow." ―Publishers Weekly, starred review"An exemplary blend of biography, financial...

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Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats By Courtney Gustafson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate memoir about the importance of community and care in a world that can feel impossibly broken—and a story about accidentally going viral while tending to a colony of feral...

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The White Peril: A Family Memoir By Omo Moses

Savings Pre-order Price Guarantee. Terms From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family"Omo Moses...

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No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One By Andrew D. Lambert

How, for just over a century, Britain ensured it would not face another Napoleon Bonaparte—manipulating European powers while building a global maritime empire At the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, a fragile peace emerged in Europe....

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On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization By Douglas Murray

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In his travels through Israel and Gaza, #1 International Bestselling author Douglas Murray has seen the best and the worst humanity has to offer, and he has no trouble choosing a...

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Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting By Dan Hicks

Savings Pre-order Price Guarantee. Terms The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the...

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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies By Michael Albertus

An award-winning political scientist shows that a society’s path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the landFor millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of...

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Child as Citizen: Agency and Activism in Children's Literature and Culture: Agency and Activism in Children's Literature and Culture By Giuliana Fenech

Contributions byDaniela Brockdorff, Nina Christensen, Jill Coste, Katrin Dautel, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Giuliana Fenech, Naomi Hamer, Irena Barbara Kalla, Anne Klomberg, Sonali Kulkarni, Elizabeth Leach-Leung, Ann Marie Murnaghan, Emily Murphy, Emilie Owens, Nicola Parker, Patrycja Poniatowska,...

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Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live By Susan Morrison

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America’s most beloved comedy show“The kind of biographical monument usually consecrated to founding fathers, canonical authors and world-historical scientific geniuses.”—The New York...

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Bibliophobia By Sarah Chihaya

“A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”—Hua Hsu, author of Stay True“[A] stirring and sparkling new memoir.”—The Washington PostONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF...

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Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain By Blessin Adams

USA Today BestsellerTimed for the 250th anniversary of America's independence: Paul Revere's history-making ride and its aftermathOn April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver, and anti-British political operative named Paul Revere set out on a...

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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America By Kostya Kennedy

USA Today BestsellerTimed for the 250th anniversary of America's independence: Paul Revere's history-making ride and its aftermathOn April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver, and anti-British political operative named Paul Revere set out on a...

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What's Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society By Rina Bliss

A paradigm-shifting tour of genetics and identity arguing that race is at once a biological fiction and a social reality. Biologically, race does not exist. Scientists have proven that human DNA is 99.9 percent identical....

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Five Seasons in Seoul By Christine Newell

Christine thought a year in South Korea would hit the pause button on her messy life. Her dad's death had left her anxious and depressed, and her career in musical theatre had reached a new...

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The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army By Ali Watkins

“Riveting…Will inevitably be compared with Patrick Radden Keefe’s nonfiction blockbuster…But its themes are arguably even more resonant in the current political moment.”―The Washington PostFrom New York Times reporter and Pulitzer finalist Ali Watkins, the long-buried story of...

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Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River By Charlotte Taylor Fryar

An impassioned meditation on American identity and its ebb and flow through the Capital’s great waterway As she walks the length of the Potomac River, clambering up its banks and sounding its depths, Charlotte Taylor...

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Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life By Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Meet queer, BIPOC, and women artists around the world as they discuss the gifts, costs, and redemptive power of pursuing a creative lifeIs the all-encompassing quest to become a self-sustaining artist worth the sacrifices it...

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Powerful Girls: Raising Strong, Just, and Compassionate Young Women By Ann Muno

An invaluable guide to cultivating powerful, compassionate young women by nurturing confidence, identity, and a passion for justice.Girls and young women today need strong role models, mentors, and care providers to foster what society often...

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Regenerating the Feminine: Psyche, Culture, and Nature: Psyche, Culture, and Nature By April C. Heaslip

Mythologists work as cultural animateurs, tracking patterns and trends, identifying archetypal and symbolic wounds and remedies. Reading cultural and environmental events via texts and patterns from such a perspective enables dynamic dialogue and action. Regenerating the...

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Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure By Jennie Erin Smith

"Valley of Forgetting reminds us that scientific progress is measured not only in breakthroughs but also through the sacrifices people make, the trust that is built. It is a tender story of the unshakable will to...

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Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars By Anthony M. Petro

In the late twentieth century, artists were on the front lines of the culture wars. Leaders of the Christian Right in the U.S. made a national spectacle out of feminist and queer art, blasting it...

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The Populist Style: Trump, Le Pen and Performances of the Far Right By Théo Aiolfi

Through a comparative case study analysing the 2016 and 2017 presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, The Populist Style examines the links between far-right ideology and populism. Adopting an interdisciplinary framework combining political science...

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Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine By Padraic X. Scanlan

A “vigorous and engaging” (Fintan O’Toole, New Yorker) new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disasterIn 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by...

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Strata: Stories from Deep Time By Laura Poppick

"[A]n extraordinary book." ―Marcia Bjornerud, author of Turning to StoneA revelatory journey through four moments in Earth’s deep past, and their lessons for our future. The epic stories of our planet’s 4.54-billion-year history are written in...

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Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run By Peter Ames Carlin

A fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the making of Bruce Springsteen’s ground-breaking album, Born to Run – one of the most iconic records in rock history – Tonight in Jungleland combines lush music writing with unprecedented inside access to Springsteen,...

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On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports By Christine Brennan

Instant New York Times Bestseller!A news-making and electrifying portrait of sports phenomenon Caitlin Clark, whose dramatic ascendance in college basketball and now in the WNBA has captured the attention of media and fans unlike any other female...

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Women in the Orthodox Tradition: Feminism, Theology, and Equality By Ashley Marie Purpura

Women in the Orthodox Tradition brings feminist insights into dialogue with Orthodox Christianity to theologically identify and respond to challenges of gender equality. Orthodox Christianity places great importance upon tradition, from doctrinal formulas and sainted teachings...

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Women on the Right: Politics and Social Action in Comparative and Transnational Perspective, 1870s-1990s By Clarisse Berthezène

Women on the Right explores the complex relationships between conservative and right-wing politics, social action, and women actors from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Edited by Clarisse Berthezène, Laura Lee Downs, and Julie V....

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