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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Stefanos Geroulanos - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

"In this remarkable and enlivening study, Stefanos Geroulanos traces the development of our modern fascination with humanity's deep past, and lays out that fascination's deadly costs." -- Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century...
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The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy

Sean Kingsley - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The incredible story of the "Robin Hood of the Seas," who absconded with millions during the Golden Age of Piracy and who harbored an even greater secret.. Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from a Mughal ship off the coast of India and then vanished into thin air - and into...
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Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect

John Inazu - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible? If so, you're not alone, and it doesn't have to be this way. Learning to Disagree reveals the surprising path to learning how to disagree in ways that build...
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes...
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

Matt Strassler - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A theoretical physicist takes us on an awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human...
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

Manisha Sinha - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history. We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create...
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The Right Kind of White: A Memoir

Garrett Bucks - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory memoir that earnestly reckons with whiteness.. As the product of progressive parents and a liberal upbringing, Garrett Bucks prided himself on the pursuit of being a "good white person." The kind of white person who treats their privilege as a responsibility and not a burden;...
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The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

Larry Loftis - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII - at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration...
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Illiberal America: A History

Steven Hahn - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.A storm of illiberalism,...
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Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley

Brent Underwood - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more - a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams.. The siren song of Cerro Gordo, a desolate ghost town perched high above Death...
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