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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

Sharon McMahon - Thesis
Format: Hardcover

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often...
 
 
Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire

Ashley Spencer - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The first unauthorized look at the inner workings -- and ultimate breakdown -- of the Disney Channel machine . For many kids growing up in the 2000s, there was no cultural touchstone more powerful than Disney Channel, the most-watched cable channel in primetime at its peak. Today, it might...
 
 
Question 7

Richard Flanagan - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author's life and family, and the role of fiction in our times. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's...
 
 
The Road Is Good: How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose

Uzo Aduba - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, timely memoir of Black immigrant identity, the story of an unforgettable matriarch, and a unique coming-of-age story by Nigerian American actress Uzo Aduba.. The actress Uzo Aduba came of age grappling with a master juggling act: as one of few Black families in their white Massachusetts...
 
 
The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death

Matt Murphy - Hyperion Avenue
Format: Hardcover

Examining murder from an insider's perspective, Matt Murphy - a former senior deputy district attorney and current ABC News Legal Analyst - discusses cases from his career, how they strained his personal life, and how he found peace seeking justice for victims and their families.. Part...
 
 
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War

Phillips Payson O'Brien - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.. In The Strategists, Professor...
 
 
Monet: The Restless Vision

Jackie Wullschläger - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking look at the life and art of one of the most influential, modern painters of the late nineteenth century and founder of the Impressionist movement. "Wullschläger emerges with a strikingly different picture of the artist. Passionate, prickly, edgy and unstable, her Monet,...
 
 
Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

Ina Garten - Crown
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten - aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon - shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table. Here,...
 
 
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! . "It literally changed my outlook on the world ... incredible." - Shonda Rhimes"The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the nuance and wallop of a finely wrought novel ... The Barn describes not just the poison...
 
 
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People

Nemonte Nenquimo - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover

From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist, an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest and protect her people . Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest - one of the last to be contacted...