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Indiana Off the Beaten Path® (Off the Beaten Path Series)

Jackie Sheckler Finch - Globe Pequot
Format: Paperback

Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, Indiana Off the Beaten Path shows you the Hoosier State with new perspectives on timeless destinations and introduces you to those you never knew existed. Experience pioneer life...
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The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates - One World
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell - and the ones we don't - shape our realities.. "[Coates] is intellectually fearless . . . unshackled by political or racial ideology,...
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Hoop Atlas: Mapping the Remarkable Transformation of the Modern NBA

Kirk Goldsberry - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Sprawlball, Kirk Goldsberry returns with a visual feast of a book - equal parts Book of Basketball and Shea Serrano - that uses sharp writing, his signature graphics, and cutting-edge statistical analyses to unpack how a handful of NBA superstars - MJ to Lebron...
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The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency

David M. Rubenstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein - David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the US presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack...
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DK San Francisco and the Bay Area (Travel Guide)

DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

Whether you want to muse over modern masterpieces at SFMOMA, indulge in the hedonistic nightlife of the Castro, or uncover cypress-tree sculptures in the Presidio forest, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that San Francisco and the Bay Area have to offer.. The glowing...
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America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

H. W. Brands - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis,...
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Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.. She describes...
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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Rebecca Nagle - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century...
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Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

Bill O'Reilly - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Instant #1 New York Times and USA Today nonfiction bestseller!Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit.. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series...
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