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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Kantor, Jodi · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movementOn October 5, 2017, the New York...
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Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action; A Memoir

David Fajgenbaum · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure - and became a champion for a new approach to medical research."An extraordinary memoir . . . It belongs with Atul Gawande's writings and When Breath...
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How to Fight Anti-Semitism

Bari Weiss
Format: Hardcover

The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country - and explains what we can do to defeat it. "Stunning . . . Bari Weiss is heroic, fearless, brilliant and big-hearted. Most importantly,...
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Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You

Wynne, Clive D. L. · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Does your dog love you? Every dog lover knows the feeling. The nuzzle of a dog's nose, the warmth of them lying at our feet, even their whining when they want to get up on the bed. It really seems like our dogs love us, too. But for years, scientists have resisted that conclusion, warning...
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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Iger, Robert · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time's most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life. Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney...
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Project Apollo: The Moon Odyssey Explained

Norman Ferguson · The History Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

The Apollo missions to the Moon are some of the most successful and well-remembered manned spaceflights that NASA has ever accomplished, taking place in the heyday of space travel. Indeed, the program was the only one to achieve the ultimate goal of placing humankind on the Moon, which...
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Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance

Ady Barkan · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In this inspirational and moving memoir - reminiscent of When Breath Becomes Air and The Bright Hour - activist Ady Barkan explores his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him a profound new understanding of his commitment to social justice for all. Ady Barkan loved taking afternoon...
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If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

Ingraham, Christopher · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham's decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400 - the community he made famous as "the worst place to live in America" in a story he wrote for the Washington...
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The Assault on American Excellence

Kronman, Anthony T. · Free Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is out of place at institutions whose job is to prepare citizens to live in a vibrant democracy. In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas

Budiansky, Stephen · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court's most influential justice.Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam....
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