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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...
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Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II

Abbott Kahler - Crown
Format: Hardcover

An incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galápagos - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park. At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists...
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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...
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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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Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America

Sasha Abramsky - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover

A harrowing tale of how polarization threatened to break apart two American communities and how one found a way back while the other splintered.. Donald Trump's November 2016 electoral victory was the beginning of four years of demagogy, presidential name-calling, and - ten months into...
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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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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

Dan Slater - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The harrowing tale of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime.. In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed...
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Why We Photograph Animals

Huw Lewis-Jones - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover

A compelling visual anthology of one of photography's most popular subjects, reframing our understanding of why we photograph animals and why photographing them matters to us and the planet.A visual overview of the history and future of animal photography, Why We Photograph Animals...
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The Origins of Totalitarianism: With a New Introduction by Anne Applebaum

Hannah Arendt - Mariner Books Classics
Format: Paperback

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism - an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history - now with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum.In recent years, The Origins of Totalitarianism has become essential reading as we grapple with the rise of autocrats...
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