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Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

Corban Addison - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." - From the Foreword by John Grisham The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community...
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The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate

Amy Brady, Ph.D.
Format: Paperback

Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives - including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and moreIn this...
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Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap

DAVID ROBERTS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing."By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west...
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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Jody Rosen - ‎Crown
Format: Hardcover

A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world"The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride - across the centuries and around the globe, through startling history and vivid first-person reporting."...
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Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation

Pete Hegseth - ‎Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Early in the 20th century, Progressives quietly transformed America's schools. One hundred years later, they've succeeded beyond their wildest hopes. Behind a smokescreen of "preparing students for the new industrial economy," early progressives had political control...
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Martha S. Jones - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover‏

In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their...
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Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things that Seem Impossible Today

Jane McGonigal - ‎Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

A world-renowned future forecaster and game designer teaches us to envision the future before it arrives - and gives us the tools to help shape the world we want to live in.The COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most disruptive events in human history, has made it more challenging than ever...
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