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A Completely Different Game: My Leadership Playbook

Emma Hayes - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

From the head coach of the United States Women's National Team and legendary coach of Chelsea FC comes a book of hard-won lessons for leading a team to success on and off the field Few places will test your leadership skills more than the global soccer stage. For more than twenty...
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I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India

Rollo Romig - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

A gripping investigation into the mysterious assassination of a journalist in India, revealing the courage and vulnerability of those who are fighting the decline of democracy around the world. When Gauri Lankesh, an outspoken journalist in the South Indian city of Bangalore, was assassinated...
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Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation

Brenda Wineapple - Random House
Format: Hardcover

"Brenda Wineapple's wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the struggles of the present." - Jon Meacham In this magnificent book, award-winning author of The Impeachers brings to life the dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes...
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Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

Anna Marie Tendler - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"This bookis so many things I didn't know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny's insipid, predictable, infuriating reign." - Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other...
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Earth to Moon: A Memoir

Moon Unit Zappa - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

From Moon Unit Zappa, the daughter of musical visionary Frank Zappa, comes a memoir of growing up in her unconventional household in 1970s Los Angeles, coming of age in the Hollywood Hills in the 1980s as the "Valley Girl," gaining momentum as an accidental VJ on a new network...
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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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A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

Tia Levings - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me.". Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list...
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All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

Orlando Whitfield - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling insider's account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer. In development as a series for HBO. Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick met in 2006...
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

Rachelle Bergstein - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume's life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic - and controversial - young adult novels, from Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret to Blubber.. Everyone knows Judy Blume. Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades...
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Undefeated: Changing the Rules and Winning on My Own Terms

Shaunie Henderson - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Shaunie Henderson - wife, mother, entrepreneur, producer, and creator of the hit TV show Basketball Wives - opens up about finding love, offers advice for raising strong, smart, grounded Black children in today's world, and reveals how to define your career and personal life by your...
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