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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Rebecca Boyle - ?Random House
Format: Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the Artemis launches--from an acclaimed Scientific American and Atlantic contributorFar from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the key to some of science's central questions,...
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A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

Rachel E. Cargle - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful approach to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building liberating new ones.There are breaking points in all our lives when...
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I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

Barbara Rae-Venter - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The amateur DNA sleuth who cracked the most infamous cold case in American history -- that of the Golden State Killer - tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have changed the course of criminal investigations forever.For twelve years he terrorized...
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The Cases That Haunt Us

John E. Douglas - Pocket Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Violent. Provocative. Shocking. Call them what you will...but don't call them open and shut. Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year...
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year"...
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Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship

Catherine Raven - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox. When Catherine Raven finished her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana. She was as emotionally isolated as she was physically, but she viewed the house...
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The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood

Julian Rubinstein - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

On the last Friday evening of the summer of 2013, five shots rang out in the parking lot of a new Boys & Girls Club in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the Holly had become an "invisible...
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Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

Neil Shubin - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth--a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that can help to determine whether our presence here is accidental or inevitable.Over...
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American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

DAVID BARON - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, American Eclipse ultimately depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius.On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American...
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Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts

Maya Moore Irons - Andscape
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction.A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA's brightest stars, married the man she helped...
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