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Our Kindred Creatures By Bill Wasik

A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of RabidOver just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral...

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Why War By Richard Overy

Why has war been a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains through rich examples and keen insight.In 1932, two towering intellectuals, Einstein and Freud, published a correspondence on the question, “Why...

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Dark Brilliance By Paul Strathern

Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art,...

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Radiant By Brad Gooch

“It’s all  the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and...

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Our Ancient Faith By Allen C. Guelzo

An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize"It is altogether fitting...

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The Sentinel State By Minxin Pei

Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and GPS tracking than to the human resources of the Leninist surveillance state.For...

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All Mapped Out By Mike Duggan

A unique approach to maps, exploring how they have shaped society and culture.Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out is an exploration of how maps impact our lives...

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Default By Gregory Makoff

The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt lawUnlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection from their creditors. When a...

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The Living Medicine By Lina Zeldovich

A remarkable story of the scientists behind a long-forgotten and life-saving the healing viruses that can conquer antibiotic resistant bacterial infectionsFirst discovered in 1917, bacteriophages—or “phages”—are living viruses that devour bacteria. Ubiquitous in the environment,...

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The Republic of China By Xavier Paules

The declaration of the Republic of China in 1912 signalled an entirely new era. Not only did the revolution of 1911–12 bring about the fall of the Qing it also brought an end to the...

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A Murder in Hollywood By Casey Sherman

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all―a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that...

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Slow Noodles By Chantha Nguon

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her...

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A Map of Future Ruins By Lauren Markham

A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately linked to the exclusion and demonization of migrants todayWhen and how did migration become a crime? Why have “Greek ideals” remained...

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The Rebel's Clinic By Adam Shatz

A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for social and racial justiceIn the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon’s shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the...

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Lovers in Auschwitz By Keren Blankfeld

“Mesmerizing and inspirational.”—Judy Batalion, New York Times bestselling author of The Light of DaysThe incredible true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be separated upon liberation and lead...

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The Threshold of Dissent By Marjorie Feld

Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American JewsThroughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for Israel, cementing it as a cornerstone of American Jewish identity....

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Between Britain By Alistair Moffat

The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display their Saltires flying in the...

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The Last of Its Kind By Gísli Pálsson

How an iconic bird’s final days exposed the reality of human-caused extinctionThe great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands...

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Women in the Valley of the Kings By Kathleen Sheppard

The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt and created the basis for Egyptology.The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful...

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Only Say Good Things By Crystal Hefner

A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s stolen young adulthood and her journey to self-acceptance, and a rare look inside Hugh Hefner’s final days.At just twenty-one...

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Troubled By Rob Henderson

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Other Wes Moore, and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care,...

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The Wisdom of Plagues By Donald G. Mcneil Jr.

Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics—how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to...

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The Last Fire Season By Manjula Martin

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman’s experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire...

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Still As Bright By Christopher Cokinos

An immersive exploration of the nightly presence that has captured our imagination for the entirety of human history."When the Moon rises between buildings or over trees, it’s not just a beautiful It’s an archive of...

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The Fine Art of Literary Fist Fighting By Lee Gutkind

An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. Then...

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Rebel Rising By Rebel Wilson

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself.For decades, Rebel Wilson had single-mindedly focused on her...

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Mellon vs Churchill By Jill Eicher

The never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World War I.Andrew Mellon,...

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Ruin Their Crops on the Ground By Andrea Freeman

The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter eraIn 1779, to subjugate Indigenous...

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The Devil at His Elbow By Valerie Bauerlein

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case. Alex Murdaugh was a benevolent dictator—the president...

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Hannah's Children By Catherine Pakaluk

A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women.In the midst of a historic "birth dearth," why do some 5 percent of American women choose to defy the demographic norm by bearing five or more...

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Insect Cuisine By Robert Nathan Allen

Learn about the health and environmental benefits of eating insects, as well as the chefs, farmers, and consumers who are spearheading a culinary revolution in insect consumptionInsects are on the forefront of a food revolution...

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Enlightened By Annemarie Heckert

World-renowned Medium Annemarie Heckert leads readers on a healing journey through the chakras in her debut book, Enlightened.Bringing her prodigious clairvoyance skills to bear on the subject of emotional healing, Annemarie offers a unique look at...

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The Swans of Harlem By Karen Valby

The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history—until now.At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarca was a Black prima ballerina...

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Tits Up By Sarah Thornton

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chestsAfter years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy, but after her reconstructive surgery, she was...

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My My By Giles Smith

‘A lovely book – as bright, shiny and uplifting as an Abba hit’ Daily Mail‘[A] witty and affectionate account . . . It’s not a stretch to say that, at its core, My My! is...

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Plague Ship By Kirstin Downey

250 years ago, English explorers roaming the Pacific Ocean stumbled upon a group of islands previously unknown to the outside world. The lush archipelago, later known as Hawaii, would become a hub of global trade...

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Look Away By Jacob Kushner

Not long after the Berlin Wall came down, three teenagers—a woman and two men—became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of economic some four million...

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The Secret Life of Hidden Places By Stefan Bachmann

A spellbinding tour, filled with stories and photographs, of some of the world’s most fascinating architectural mysteries.This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour...

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The Me I Was Made to Be By Christie Penner Worden

Your kids are talking about identity. Are you part of the conversation?Today’s kids and youth are talking about identity—and often very differently from the adults around them. How can we walk well with them through...

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Fluke By Brian Klaas

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan comes a provocative challenge to how we think our world...

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Smoke and Ashes By Amitav Ghosh

When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only...

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Don't Build Rebuild By Aaron Betsky

In a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction practices with an architecture of reuseAs climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing...

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Star Spangled Jesus By April Ajoy

A hilarious and eye-opening account of leaving Christian Nationalism behind to follow Jesus better. April Ajoy wouldn’t have called herself a Christian Nationalist when she performed her original song “America Say Jesus” on the Jim Bakker...

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Who Is a Worthy Mother By Rebecca Wellington

2024 Nonfiction Book Awards Silver Winner2025 Feathered Quill Book Awards 3rd Place- Memoir/BiographyNearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. Adoption practices are woven into the fabric of American society and reflect...

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Fat Leonard By Craig Whitlock

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest public corruption scandals in American history—exposing how a charismatic Malaysian defense contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers, defrauded the...

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Women Behind the Wheel By Nancy A. Nichols

From the adolescent thrill of getting a driver's license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the car has had—and will continue...

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Facing the Unseen By Damon Tweedy

From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent defense of psychiatry and mental health careAs much as we all might wish that mental health...

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Environomics By Dharshini David

'Opens our eyes to the everyday contributions all of us make to how the world is changing.' Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of Geography'A much needed blend of optimism and realism' Brett Christophers, author of The Price is Why...

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