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The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives

Adam Gamal - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit -- an explosive and unlikely story of service and sacrifice.. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained...
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The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

Michiko Kakutani - Crown
Format: Hardcover

An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today's world, creating both opportunity and peril - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death...
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Chantha Nguon - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. . Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education....
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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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Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Rob Henderson - Gallery Books
Format: Audio CD

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Other Wes Moore, and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering...
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Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

McCracken Poston Jr. - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating smalltown Southern setting, this is the fascinating true story - sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking - of an idealistic young lawyer determined to free an innocent neurodivergent man accused...
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Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

Bianca Bosker - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"Sheer pleasure: the best book I've ever read about contemporary art." - Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sontag. "Immersive reporting along the lines of George Plimpton or Barbara Ehrenreich with...a gift for clever formulations that recalls Oscar Wilde...
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I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free

Tabitha Brown - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business) presents an inspirational guide for encouraging positive changes in your life - one day and one challenge at a time.I did a new thing today!Years ago, Tabitha Brown started a 30-day personal challenge...
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An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country

David Finkel - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A man navigates the deep divisions in America today and discovers that sometimes change can start by finding common ground with your neighbors in this immersive account by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Thank You for Your Service and The Good Soldiers.. "Finkel's account...
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Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

Paul Alexander - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon. In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander - author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger - gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America's...
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