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The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World

Patrick Nunn - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover

In The Edge of Memory, Patrick Nunn explores the science in folk history. He looks at ancient tales and traditions that may be rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and can be explored via geological evidence, such as the Biblical Flood.We all know those stories that have been...
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

Anne Boyd Rioux - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

On its 150th anniversary, discover the story of the beloved classic that has captured the imaginations of generations.Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America's favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout the world,...
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Handsome Johnny: The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli: Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin

Lee Server - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A rich biography of the legendary figure at the center of the century's darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and international intrigue from Lee Server, the New York Times bestselling author of Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing...
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To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope

JEANNE MARIE LASKAS - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from constituents. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. This is the story of the profound ways in which they shaped his presidency. Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama received ten handpicked...
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You Can't Go Wrong Doing Right: How a Child of Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World

Robert J. Brown - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable account of a quietly remarkable life, Robert Brown's memoir takes readers behind the scenes of pivotal moments from the 20th century, where the lessons he learned at his grandmother's knee helped him shape America as we know it today. Called "a world-class power...
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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

Barry Glassner - Basic Books
Format: Paperback

The bestselling book revealing why Americans are so fearful, and why we fear the wrong things--now updated for the age of TrumpIn the age of Trump, our society is defined by fear. Indeed, three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today than they did only a couple decades ago....
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Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

Isha Sesay - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

"It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha Sesay's indispensable and gripping account of the brutal abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram terrorists provides a stark reminder...
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The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis

William Geroux - Viking
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort.On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy...
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

Steven Novella - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking in the popular The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast's dryly humorous, accessible style, which Professor Richard Wiseman calls the "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction."It's intimidating...
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An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago

Alex Kotlowitz - Anchor
Format: Hardcover

2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNER. From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicagos most turbulent neighborhoods.. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been...
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In a riveting book with powerful resonance today, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet affirming story of his family's ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication.Elliott...
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Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

A. N. Wilson - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort's birth.For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height...
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Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing You'll Ever Need

Jessica Brody - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback

The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success.Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat!...
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Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

Pete Souza - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait, comes a potent commentary on the Presidency--and our country. As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza spent more time alongside President Barack Obama than almost anyone...
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13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don't Do: Own Your Power, Channel Your Confidence, and Find Your Authentic Voice for a Life of Meaning and Joy

Amy Morin - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

International bestselling author and leading global expert on mental strength Amy Morin turns her focus to feminism, explaining what it means - and what it takes - to be a mentally strong woman in the age of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.The emergence of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements...
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Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever

RICK WILSON - Free Press
Format: Hardcover

A respected, long-time Republican strategist, ad-maker, and contributor for The Daily Beast, skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism.In Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator...
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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Cecelia Watson - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

"Delightful." - Mary Norris, The New YorkerA page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world's most polarizing punctuation markThe semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love...
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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

Reshma Saujani - Currency
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Girls Who Code founder/CEO inspires us to discover the power of female bravery.Do you run yourself ragged trying to not just do it all, but do it all flawlessly? Do you lose sleep ruminating over small mistakes or worrying that something you said...
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Stephanie Land - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."While the gap between upper...
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Apocalypse Any Day Now: Deep Underground with America's Doomsday Preppers

Tea Krulos - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

Everyone always seems to be talking about the end of the world - Y2K, the Mayan apocalypse, blood moon prophecies, nuclear war, killer robots, you name it. In Apocalypse Any Day Now, journalist Tea Krulos travels the country to try to puzzle out America's obsession with the end of days....
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Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter

Jessica Wragg - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

A memoir of coming of age behind the counter, exploring butchery as an art form and taking an incisive look at an industry on the brink.When sixteen-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at her local farm shop in Derbyshire, England, she never expected to land a position behind the butchery...
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The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

PRIYA PARKER - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A bold new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together--at work, at home, in our communities, and beyond.In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely...
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Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin

Joseph Kelly - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking,...
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Esmé Weijun Wang - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts...
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The Man Who Would Be Sherlock: The Real Life Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle

Christopher Sandford - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

A world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes in the engrossing The Man Who Would Be Sherlock.Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens...
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The Birth Guy's Go-To Guide for New Dads: How to Support Your Partner Through Birth, Breastfeeding, and Beyond

Brian W. Salmon - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

A must-have baby shower gift for expectant dads! In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation counselor Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners.Gone...
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Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood

J. Michael Straczynski - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

With an introduction by Neil Gaiman!In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Marvel's Thor reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to overcome the horrors of his youth and a dysfunctional family haunted...
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Cara Robertson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology - the trial of Lizzie Borden - based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence.The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history....
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Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence

Shane Claiborne - Brazos Press
Format: Paperback

Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in all the wars in American history....
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Stop Self-Sabotage: Six Steps to Unlock Your True Motivation, Harness Your Willpower, and Get Out of Your Own Way

Judy Ho PhD - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning clinical psychologist and TV personality Dr. Judy Ho helps you stop the cycle of self-sabotage, clear a path to lasting happiness, and start living your best life in this a must-have guide perfect for fans of You Are a Badass, Unf*ck Yourself, and How to Stop Feeling Like...
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American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World

Christina Proenza-Coles - NewSouth Books
Format: Hardcover

American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough...
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Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education

SUSAN WISE BAUER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A best-selling expert on education shows how to make the school system work for your child.Our K-12 school system is an artificial product of market forces. It isn't a good fit for all -- or even most -- students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes...
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Henry's Men: And the Men Who Made Him

Tracy Borman - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry's life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted...
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Full Disclosure

Stormy Daniels - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.How did Stormy...
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A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert

Karen Piper - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missilesThe China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware....
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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us

Joseph J Ellis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history...
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Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption

Ben Mezrich - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires--the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off....
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Cal Newport - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology.Georgetown computer scientist Cal Newport's Deep Work sparked a movement around the idea that unbroken concentration produces far more value than the electronic busyness that defines the modern...
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Beyond Beautiful: A Practical Guide to Being Happy, Confident, and You in a Looks-Obsessed World

Anuschka Rees - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

A prescriptive, empowering, and psychology-driven guide to building confidence in your body, clothes, beauty, and life in the era of toxic social media-driven beauty standards. Between picture-perfect Instagram celebrities, ultra-lean fitness gurus, and effortlessly chic fashion influencers,...
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

NICOLE CHUNG - Catapult
Format: Hardcover

A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection An Official Junior Library Guild Selection An ABA Indies Introduce Selection "This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story, then widens her aperture...
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The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.

Evan Ratliff - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux - the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur It all started as an online prescription...
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Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.

ANTONIA FELIX - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

Elizabeth Warren's rise as one of America's most powerful women is a stirring lesson in persistence. From her fierce support of the middle class to her unapologetic response to political bullies, Warren is known as a passionate yet plain-speaking champion of equity and fairness. In the wake...
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Queen of the World: Elizabeth II: Sovereign and Stateswoman

Robert Hardman - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

Written by renowned royal biographer, Robert Hardman, and with privileged access to the Royal Family and the Royal Household, this is a brilliant new portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it.On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest....
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The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II

WINSTON GROOM - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly different Allied leaders--aligned to win World War II and created a new world order.By the end of World War II, 59 nations were arrayed...
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A Fool's Guide to Actual Happiness

Mark Van Buren - Wisdom Publications
Format: Paperback

Happiness lies within us - but we could all use a little help finding it. In a refreshing new voice, The Fool's Guide to Actual Happiness shows us how to feel and be better - without having to be perfect. Let's face it: we all have a motivating drive to become "better."...
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Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today's Ripoff Artists

Frank Abagnale - Portfolio
Format: Paperback

Frank Abagnale (whose life as a con man was depicted in the movie Catch Me If You Can) reveals the methods used by the world's most skillful con artists to steal billions of dollars each year from unsuspecting Americans--and...
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Shane Bauer - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana....
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The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

Julie Bogart - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback

A joyful and accessible approach to homeschooling that harnesses children's natural curiosity and makes learning a part of everyday life, whether they're in elementary or high schoolParents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids. When...
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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

Sam Kean - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bombScientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital...
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Capitalism in America: A History

Alan Greenspan - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.From even the start of his fabled...
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

Ron Stallworth - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback

The extraordinary true story and basis for the major motion picture BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs...
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A fascinating new book... [Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is] a genius."--Trevor Noah, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah"This book should be required reading for everyone."--Robin DiAngelo, author of White FragilityAs featured on CBS This Morning, NPR's All Things Considered,...
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The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money: Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs

Jill Schlesinger - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Why do even the smartest among us make dumb mistakes with our money? Pinpoint your biggest money blind spots and take control of your finances with these tools from CBS News Business Analyst and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Jill on Money, Jill Schlesinger.Do you have...
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Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Billy Jensen - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller. Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect?Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every...
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Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells

Pico Iyer - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief.For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko,...
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy

Anne De Courcy - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - The real women who inspired Downton AbbeyTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years...
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Trust First: A True Story About the Power of Giving People Second Chances

Bruce Deel - Optimism Press
Format: Hardcover

Over the past 20 years, Bruce Deel has helped over 20,000 people in the most dangerous zip code of Atlanta escape the cycle of homelessness, joblessness, and drug abuse. In these powerful true stories about the men and women who fell through the cracks in our social services system, he shows...
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Perez - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women...
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In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World

Simon Garfield - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans' peculiar fascination with small things - and what small things tell us about our larger world."[Simon Garfield is] an exuberant truffle-hound of the recondite and delightful factoid."...
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Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington

Patricia Miller - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

"I'll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his."In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women's rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her "ruined,"...
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Haben Girma - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

"This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O Magazine"A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New...
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

Jonathan M. Metzl - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to helpIn the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as Dying of Whiteness...
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Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married

Abby Ellin - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Abby Ellin was shocked to learn that her fianc was leading a secret life. But as she soon discovered, double lives are everywhere.From Abby Ellin's first date with The Commander, she was caught up in a whirlwind. Within five months he'd proposed, and they'd moved in together. But there...
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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Pam Houston - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons,...
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George Marshall: Defender of the Republic

David L. Roll - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America's most distinguished soldier-statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century. Winston Churchill called him World...
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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List

JAMES MUSTICH - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate book for book lovers: the 1,000 must-read books across genres and eras, each accompanied by a thought-provoking short essay on why the book is so essential.
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Out of the Maze: An A-mazing Way to Get Unstuck

P SPENCER JOHNSON - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

The posthumous sequel to Who Moved My Cheese?, the classic parable that became a worldwide sensation.Who Moved My Cheese? offered millions of readers relief for an evergreen problem: unanticipated and unwelcome change. Now its long-awaited sequel digs deeper, to show how readers...
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The Empire and the Five Kings: America's Abdication and the Fate of the World

BERNARD-HENRI LVY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

One of the West's leading intellectuals offers a provocative look at America's withdrawal from world leadership and the rising powers who seek to fill the vacuum left behind.The United States was once the hope of the world, a beacon of freedom and the defender of liberal democracy. Nations...
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The Byline Bible: Get Published in Five Weeks

SUSAN SHAPIRO - Writer's Digest Books
Format: Paperback

Newspaper, magazine, and web editors are desperate for new voices and anyone, in any field, can break in. So why not you? Over the last two decades, writing professor Susan Shapiro has taught more than 25,000 students of all ages and backgrounds at NYU, Columbia, Temple, The New School,...
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The Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene - Viking
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around youRobert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers...
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Rick Atkinson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American RevolutionRick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply...
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Warrior's Creed: A Life of Preparing for and Facing the Impossible

Roger Sparks - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of how a young boy's upbringing with outlaw culture and charismatic role models forged him into an elite Marine and a decorated Pararescueman."Absence of self is my sword" comprises the final line in "The Warrior's Creed," a 14th century poem...
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Travel Light, Move Fast

Alexandra Fuller - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well livedSix months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly...
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Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Anthony Bourdain - Melville House
Format: Paperback

The brilliant intellect and candor of Anthony Bourdain is on full display in this collection of interviews from throughout his remarkable career, including interviews with Neil Degrasse Tyson and Trevor NoahAnthony Bourdain always downplayed his skills as a chef (many disagreed) . But despite...
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America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.

Steven M. Gillon - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America's Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon. Through the lens of their decades-long...
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The Borgias: Power and Fortune

Paul Strathern - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family -- a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners -- set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious...
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The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out

William Dameron - Little A
Format: Hardcover

A candid memoir of denial, stolen identities, betrayal, faking it, and coming out.Do you know me?, the email began, sparking tremors of fear that turned into a full quake of panic when William Dameron discovered that his selfie had been stolen by strangers. On social networks and dating...
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A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

Ben Folds - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the genre-defying icon Ben Folds comes a memoir that is as nuanced, witty, and relatable as his cult-classic songs."A Dream About Lightning Bugs reads like its author: intelligent, curious, unapologetically punk, and funny as hell."...
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