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Patriot: A Memoir

Alexei Navalny - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. . "Patriot is by turns funny, fiery, reflective and tragic, laced with Navalny's trademark wry humor and idealism....a gutting personal...
 
 
The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America

Sarah Lewis - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation's racial regime.. In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis...
 
 
And the Roots of Rhythm Remain (ZE Series, 6)

Joe Boyd - ZE Books
Format: Hardcover

From the legendary producer of Nick Drake, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, and Pink Floyd and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour de force illuminating the artists, histories, controversies, and collaborations that shaped global music.Paul...
 
 
Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America

Rebecca L. Davis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

From an esteemed scholar, a richly textured, authoritative history of sex and sexuality in America -- the first major account in three decades.Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ...
 
 
Witches Run Amok: The Oral History of Disney's Hocus Pocus

Shannon Carlin - Hyperion Avenue
Format: Hardcover

The oral history of Disney's Hocus Pocus, one of the most beloved Halloween movies of all time. In July 1993, Disney's Hocus Pocus, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, did not immediately find success, with box office numbers falling far below what was envisioned....
 
 
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker: Based on years of scrupulous research, Amy Reading creates a rare and deeply intimate ... editor and her famous marriage to E.B. White.

Amy Reading - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped build the magazine's prestigious legacy and transform the 20th century literary landscape for women.In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker's...
 
 
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement

Susannah Gibson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit.In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated,...
 
 
The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates - One World
Format: Hardcover

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The renowned 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."Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These...
 
 
How the World Made the West

Josephine Quinn - ‎Random House
Format: Hardcover


 
 
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...