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Playing Possum By Susana Monsó

How animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortalityWhen the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop...

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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution By Jane Kamensky

A portrait of an indelible twentieth-century American life―and a wholly new take on the pleasures and dangers of the so-called sexual revolution. Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala (1950–2015) understood...

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Runaway Train By Eric Roberts

In this brutally candid memoir, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts pulls no punches about the ups and downs of his career and his sometimes stormy relationship with his famous sister, Julia.Eric Roberts...

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The Cave By Amani Ballour

This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.Simply put, there is no one in Syria with a story...

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Australia in 100 Words By Amanda Laugesen

Bonzer. Arvo. Tucker. Sickie. Pash. Illywhacker.There are plenty of words to choose from to tell the story of Australia – from iconic Australianisms like mateship, fair dinkum, and bogan to drop bears, budgie smugglers, and bin chickens.And while you aren’t likely to...

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Kingmaker By Sonia Purnell

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, a re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, obituaries that...

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Natural Magic By Renée Bergland

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known...

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Democracy in Retrograde By Sami Sage

A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to save our democracy but doesn’t know where to start.In today’s political climate, it’s hard not to get discouraged. Isolated,...

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Reap the Whirlwind By Peter Houlahan

The bestselling author of Norco ’80 returns with a riveting story of mid-1980s San Diego that placed one young Black man at the center of a whirlwind of crime and punishment that profoundly altered Southern CaliforniaMarch 31,...

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Sharks Don't Sink By Jasmin Graham

From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplifting story of a young Black scientist's challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her...

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This Fierce People By Alan Pell Crawford

A groundbreaking, important recovery of history; the overlooked story—fully explored, of the critical aspect of America’s Revolutionary War that was fought in the South showing that the British surrender at Yorktown was the direct result...

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What the Wild Sea Can Be By Helen Scales

From the acclaimed marine biologist and author of The Brilliant Abyss , an impassioned examination of the existential threats to the world’s ocean and cautious optimism for the abundant life within it over the course...

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The Presidents and the People By Corey Brettschneider

American presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution; this is the inspirational history of the people who pushed back.Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white...

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The Shortest History of Music By Andrew Ford

An entertaining and thought-provoking trip through the fascinating history of musicFrom award-winning broadcaster and composer Andrew Ford, The Shortest History of Music is a lively, authoritative tour through several thousand years of music. Packed with colourful characters...

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The Tennis Court By Nick Pachelli

A fresh approach to a beloved sport, The Tennis Court is a photographic journey of the 200 most breathtaking tennis courts around the world.“Nick Pachelli takes us on court in every corner of the world with a...

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Dreams By Mark Blake

An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac—the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures—Dreams evokes the band's entire musical catalog as well as the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac...

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To Overthrow the World By Sean McMeekin

From an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism  When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While...

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The Secret Life of Flying By Jeremy Burfoot

How does a plane stay up in the air?Does the Mile-High Club actually exist?When you flush the toilet, where does it all go?Buckle up for some turbulence because nothing flies under the radar for Captain...

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The Last Kilo By T.J. English

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of “Los Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history—a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami.Despite...

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he Twentysomething Treatment By Meg Jay

The author of The Defining Decade explains why the twenties are the most challenging time of life and reveals essential skills for handling the uncertainties surrounding work, love, friendship, mental health, and more during that...

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Attachments By Lucas Mann

Lucas Mann turns his attention, tenderness, self-reflection, and humor to contemporary fatherhood. He looks closely at all the joys, frustrations, subtleties, and contradictions within an experience that often goes under-discussed. At once intimate and expansive,...

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Entrances and Exits By Michael Richards

The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved television characters ever invented, Kramer, shares the extraordinary life of a comedy genius—the way he came into...

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Wicked Problems By Guru Madhavan

An ode to systems engineers―whose invisible work undergirds our life―and an exploration of the wicked problems they tackle. Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without...

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Cosmic Connections By Charles Margrave Taylor

In the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal , Charles Taylor explores the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language.The Language Animal , Charles Taylor’s 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation,...

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Lucky Loser By Russ Buettner

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth, revealing how one of the country’s biggest business failures lied...

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Behind Closed Doors By Ken Khachigian

A compelling insider’s account by the trusted adviser and confidante to America’s presidential giants and political legends as he draws the curtains back on his most private moments with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon during...

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Catland By Kathryn Hughes

How cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets. In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries...

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Lovely One By Ketanji Brown Jackson

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story.With this unflinching account,...

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No Democracy Lasts Forever By Erwin Chemerinsky

No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy and must be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided.Deeply troubled by the Constitution’s inherent flaws, Erwin...

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Melbourne Moments By Andrew Watson

This book celebrates some of the little-told and unusual stories in Melbourne's evolution from a few houses on the banks of the Yarra river to today's bustling metropolis. Unsolved heists, a disappearing hill, a hidden...

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Reagan By Max Boot

Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician—America’s fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography.From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making,...

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The Story of a Heart By Rachel Clarke

A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart—written by a bestselling author and palliative care doctor. The first of our organs to form and the last to die, the heart is...

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Life Lessons from Literature By Joseph Piercy

What can we learn from reading books? This book poses this broad question by examining the works of some of the greatest writers in history and from around the world and the life lessons we...

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The Great Transformation By Odd Arne Westad

The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and...

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May Contain Lies By Alex Edmans

How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it.Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines, and the pronouncements of politicians, executives, and...

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New Cold Wars By David E. Sanger

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and...

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Throne of Grace By Tom Clavin

The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure.It is the early 19th century,...

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Over Ruled By Neil Gorsuch

America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into our lives that it’s worth asking: In our reverence for law, have we gone...

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Boots on the Ground By Boots on the Ground

Written by a renowned expert in modern conflicts, this fully illustrated book provides an examination of ground warfare over the past 20 years and looks ahead to the future.Using lessons drawn from recent history including...

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Cooking and the Crown By Tom Parker Bowles

Blending history, monarchy, and gastronomy, Tom Parker Bowles guides the reader on an adventure across royal culinary history.From breakfasts, picnic lunches and dinners, to coronations and state banquets, Cooking and the Crown showcases an abundance...

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Soldiers and Kings By Jason De León

An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented accessPolitical instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all...

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Says Who By Anne Curzan

A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne CurzanOur use of...

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Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life By Richard Beck

A groundbreaking argument on how the decades-long War on Terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of democracy down to what we watched on TV—by an acclaimed n+1 writerFor twenty years...

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Sheltered By Melody Horrill

Stories of rescue animals and the people who were saved by them  Sheltered explores the power of love between people and their adopted animals, and how those individual animals have changed and enriched people’s lives. These real-life, heartfelt...

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Patriot A Memoir By Alexei Navalny

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story...

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The Situation Room By George Stephanopoulos

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of  This Week  and co-anchor of  Good Morning America , recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place...

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The Fall and Rise of American Finance By Stephen Maher

Traces the fall and rise of America's most powerful capitalistsThis book tells the story of the fall and rise of financial power in American capitalism, from the collapse of the J.P. Morgan's vast empire to...

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Alexander at the End of the World By Rachel Kousser

A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy.By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the...

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