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In a League of Her Own By Bonnie-Jill Laflin

Some of the most influential women in sports tell their stories of courage, adversity, and triumph to trailblazer Bonnie-Jill Laflin. A half-century after Title IX legislation leveled the playing field for women and girls, the...

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Women on Porn By Fiona Vera-Gray

At a time when women are more vocal than ever about our lives, there's one last taboo. We need to talk about porn. When we think about porn today, we still mostly think about men. Men...

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A Bookshop of One’s Own By Jane Cholmeley

The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Britain – from a woman at the heart of the women’s liberation movement. An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024What was it...

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The Weird Sister Collection By Marisa Crawford

Collecting the best of the underground blog Weird Sister , these unapologetic and insightful essays link contemporary feminism to literature and pop culture. Launched in 2014, Weird Sister proudly staked out a corner of the...

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The Devil's Best Trick By Randall Sullivan

Part true crime story, part historical account, part religious and literary analysis, an investigation into how humankind has identified and confronted evil through the figure of the Devil from acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan How we...

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The Garden Against Time By Olivia Laing

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving...

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Disordered Attention By Claire Bishop

How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary artThe ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute.Exhibitions are spread out...

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Chequered Past, Uncertain Future By Tahir Kamran

This book takes us on a sweeping journey through the ebbs and flows of Pakistan’s history, from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization to contemporary times. The book uncovers influences from Turkey, Persia, Arabia and Britain...

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The Future of the Church By Hans Schwarz

The future of the church does not look bright in North America and Europe. This is documented by many recent surveys. The church is riddled with scandals, be it sexual abuse or financial misappropriation. This...

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Bob Dylan By Jeffrey Edward Green

Throughout his career, Bob Dylan has always been more than a musician. Whether as an icon of the social movements of the 1960s, a convert to evangelical Christianity publicly wrestling with his faith, or simply...

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More, Please By Emma Specter

An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue. Millions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV therapies, and Ozempic abuse to...

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The Art of Power By Nancy Pelosi

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker – how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents,...

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The Chain Love Betrayal and the Sisterhood That Heals Us By Chimene Suleyman

In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together....

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Go Woke, Go Broke By Charles Gasparino

A riveting and smashmouth journalistic deep-dive into the progressive madness that has infected and corrupted the world’s biggest corporations, threatening the stability of the global economy—and life as we know it.   Intimidated by activists on...

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Cocktails with George and Martha By Philip Gefter

An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbreaking film it became, and how two iconic stars changed the image of marriage forever.From its debut in 1962, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid...

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The Talented Mrs Mandelbaum By Margalit Fox

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the first widely renowned crime boss in America. Discover the true story from the bestselling author of The Confidence Men.In...

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What Have We Here By Billy Dee Williams

A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, from Brian’s Song to Lando in the Star Wars universe—unchecked by the racism and typecasting so...

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Colorful By Iris Apfel

Iris Apfel’s legacy29 August 1921 to 1 March 2024.In the summer of 2023, as Iris Apfel welcomed her 102nd birthday, she put pen to paper to write this very special what Iris called her legacy...

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The British Oskar Schindler By Edward Abel Smith

When Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday in favor of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own. As...

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Short Walks to Curious Places By Roly Smith

Embark on an extraordinary journey through the British countryside, leading to mysterious sites, ancient wonders and legendary landscapes to uncover 50 of the most intriguing walks in Britain.Discover the Green Chapel of Arthurian legend deep...

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Who Owns This Sentence By David Bellos

A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do. Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to...

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A History of Modern Linguistics By James McElvenny

In this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the early nineteenth century up to the end of World War II. Written as a collective biography of the field,...

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The World and Us By Roberto Mangabeira Unger

A radical re-envisioning of the human condition by the acclaimed Brazilian philosopher and politicianIn The World and Us, Roberto Mangabeira Unger sets out to reinvent philosophy. His central theme is our transcendence, everything in our...

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Kissing Girls on Shabbat By Sara Glass

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desperate attempt to protect her children and family while also embracing her queer identity in a controlling Hasidic community.Growing...

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Hardy Women By Paula Byrne

Thomas Hardy once received a fan letter from a young woman in New York, who had read Tess of the D’Urbervilles: “I wonder at your complete understanding of a woman’s soul.” And yet his first...

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Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow By Steve Almond

The long-awaited book about the craft of creative writing from Steve Almond, beloved teacher, mentor, and author.From the acclaimed author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including  All the Secrets of the World  and...

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Making It in America By Rachel Slade

A moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why our nation depends on it, told through the experience of one young...

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The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon By Heath Hardage Lee

A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon.In America’s collective consciousness, Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted “Most Admired Woman in the World” in 1972 and made...

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Everything Is Predictable By Tom Chivers

A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy .At its simplest, Bayes’s theorem describes...

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The Movement By Clara Bingham

A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from former Newsweek reporter and author of the “powerful and moving” ( New York...

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Slouch By Beth Linker

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed...

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A Body Made of Glass By Caroline Crampton

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir,  A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria. Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with...

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Deterring Armageddon By Peter Apps

'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.As they...

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The Untold Story of Books By Michael Castleman

“People don’t read books anymore. Who has the time nowadays?” –Lesley’s Weekly (1913)From Gutenberg to Amazon, Michael Castleman’s The Untold Story of Books is the first and only history of publishing told from a veteran...

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American Zion By Benjamin E. Park

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was...

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Mad Wife By Kate Hamilton

Submitting to unwanted sex destroyed Kate’s love for her husband, but she considered killing herself before she could imagine leaving.In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to...

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We Refuse By Kellie Carter Jackson

A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy.Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence and...

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Land Between the Rivers By Bartle Bull

Land Between the Rivers is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at the edge of historical time. It...

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They Were Here Before Us By Eyal Halfon

An epic and highly readable investigation into our very earliest ancestors, focusing on the land corridor thorough which humans passed from Africa to Europe and the evidence left behind of their lives and deaths, struggles...

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Shame on You By Melissa Petro

In the spirit of Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist comes a courageous, in-depth investigation into the modern epidemic of shame in our society—what it is, why women are uniquely susceptible, and...

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Some Men in London By Peter Parker

The first part of a major new anthology which uncovers the rich reality of life for queer men in LondonIn the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath...

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Rational Accidents By John Downer

An unflinching look at the unique challenges posed by complex technologies we cannot afford to let fail—and why the remarkable achievements of civil aviation can help us understand those challenges.Nuclear reactors, deep-sea drilling platforms, deterrence...

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Bite by Bite By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and little-known facts about natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee...

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A Walk in the Park By Kevin Fedarko

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek.The Grand Canyon is an American treasure, visited by more than 6 million people a year, many of whom are...

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Wise Animals By Tom Chatfield

'Powerful, profound and completely engrossing, this is a multitudinous meditation on not only technology but also history, culture, ideas, ethics, psychology and, above all, what it means to be human.' – Michael Bhaskar, co-author of The...

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The Wives By Simone Gorrindo

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job—a profoundly intimate look at marriage, friendship, and the power of...

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Wronged By Lilie Chouliaraki

Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims changed in the past century? Who benefits and who loses from the struggles...

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Around the World in 80 Games By Marcus du Sautoy

Why do some games seem to be universal while others have a particular connection to the culture of the people playing them?Around the World in 80 Games is about the mathematics of chance, game theory,...

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