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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World

David K. Randall - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

"David K. Randall has conjured the first air race to circumnavigate the globe in all its death-defying glory, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes who had the right stuff before anyone knew what that was." - Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La...
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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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America's Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History

Dana Bash - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

"Let chaos come.". From CNN's Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, the fast-paced story of the extraordinary election that led to hundreds of murders, warfare in the streets of New Orleans, two governors of Louisiana - and changed the course of politics in our country.....
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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 Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World

Daisy Dunn - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center - from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history. Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women...
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The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates - One World
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling 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.. "[Coates] is intellectually fearless . . . unshackled by political or racial ideology,...
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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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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History

Anthony E. Kaye - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner's rebellion -- and the new definitive account. . In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived...
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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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American Ghoul

Michelle McGill-Vargas - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A wildly entertaining debut from Michelle McGill-Vargas, American Ghoul deftly combines horror and social commentary - with a dash of a buddy comedy - in an innovative twist on the vampire genre.You can't kill someone who's already dead.That's what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer...
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