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Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

Julia Baird - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

'A powerful book from one of my favorite writers on something we all need more of...and could give more of.' - Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy"Luminous. . . . A work to both devour and savour, Baird has, once again, written...
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Patriot

Alexei Navalny - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. . Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family,...
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Question 7

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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The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing

Claire Oppert - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Oliver Sacks and Being Mortal by Atul Gawande.. A celebrated art therapist plays the cello for patients with autism, neurodegenerative disease and terminal illness - and offers a moving reflection on the extraordinary power of music to enrich our lives, all the way to the very...
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John Lewis: A Life

David Greenberg - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, "the conscience of the Congress," drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.. Born into...
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At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

H. R. McMaster - Harper
Format: Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster's turbulent and consequential thirteen months in the Trump White House.At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy...
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By God's Grace

Chris Webber - Webber Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

From basketball legend Chris Webber comes By God's Grace, the highly anticipated memoir by the polarizing star of Michigan's iconic Fab Five.Chris Webber is a once-in-a-generation athlete and one of the most versatile big men in basketball history. From his baggy shorts, black socks,...
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The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington's Most Private First Lady

Heath Hardage Lee - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon.In America's collective consciousness, Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted "Most Admired Woman in the World" in 1972 and made Gallup Poll's top ten list of most admired women fourteen...
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From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

Lisa Marie Presley - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough. In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish...
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I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

Glynnis MacNicol - Penguin Life
Format: Hardcover

When you're a woman of a certain age, you are only promised that everything will get worse. But what if everything you've been told is a lie?. Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of Lights was still empty of tourists and a thirst for long-overdue pleasure gripped those who wandered...
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