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Something in the Water: A Novel

CATHERINE STEADMAN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller debut - for readers of Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Shari Lapena. If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin...
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The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts

Tessa Fontaine - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Tessa Fontaine's astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery-- through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother....
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

KAMALA HARRIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth...
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Bookclub Selection - May/June 2018"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." -- NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark...
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The One Man: The Riveting and Intense Bestselling WWII Thriller

ANDREW GROSS - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Mass Market Paperback

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ANDREW GROSS COMES A RIVETING, EMOTIONAL THRILLER THAT NO FAN OF WORLD WAR II FICTION WILL WANT TO MISS ... American Intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum routinely decodes messages from occupied Poland. Having escaped the Krakow ghetto as a teenager,...
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin J DiAngelo

Groundbreaking book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequalityIn this groundbreaking and timely book, antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phen
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Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

SARAH MCBRIDE - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

"A brave, powerful memoir." - PEOPLEA captivating memoir that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride...
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

MICHAEL POLLAN - Penguin Press
Format: Paperback

A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic...
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