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Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Barbara McQuade - Seven Stories Press
Format: Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practical solutions that can be pursued to strengthen the public, media, and truth-based politics. MSNBC's legal expert breaks down the ways disinformation has become a tool to drive voters to extremes,...
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2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed

Eric Klinenberg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg. "A gripping, deeply moving account of a signal year in modern history, told through...
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Shannon Reed - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist. We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass...
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Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s

Sarah Ditum - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover

A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing...
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Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

Benjamin Herold - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools. Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son....
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Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century

Janet Dewart Bell - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary - the first Black woman publisher in North America - declared, "break every yoke . . . let the oppressed go free" to congregants...
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Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

David Mamet - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top - a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980...
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Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change

Ben Austen - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system-through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy"Correction...
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The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place)

Tim Marshall - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes a must-read book on today's space race - including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth.. Spy satellites...
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