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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

Joy Buolamwini - Random House
Format: Hardcover

"The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune) explains how we've arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls.. "Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been an essential figure in bringing irresponsible, profit-hungry tech giants to their...
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Dangerous Normal People: Understanding Casanova Psychopaths and the Narcissistic Virus

L W Hawksby - Grosvenor House Publishing Limited
Format: Paperback

This memoir will take you on a remarkable and sometimes dark journey through a young woman's two (very different) domestically abusive relationships. With her experience laid out in diary form, spanning November 2013 to early June 2016, the author reveals the subtle and not so subtle...
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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley - MCD
Format: Hardcover

Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss packed with verve for life. Sloane Crosley...
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Sharing Too Much: Musings from an Unlikely Life

Richard Paul Evans - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays.. Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul...
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The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson - Crown Currency
Format: Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a rags-to-riches tale of Citibank's one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up - a Liar's Poker for a new generation "An incredibly important and timely...
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Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents--One Queen's Special Relationship with America

David Charter - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

70 years on the throne. 13 American presidents. One extraordinary queen.. From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts - and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year...
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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans - who came together to create the most iconic jazz album...
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American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

Katie Rogers - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden - from a White House correspondent for The New York Times. "A fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least...
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

Leslie Jamison - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love. Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe...
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What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life

Billy Dee Williams - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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 rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed.....
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