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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie - Random House
Format: Paperback

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about...
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon...
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Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

Norman Ohler - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs.Berlin 1945. Following the fall...
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Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

Leah Hunt-Hendrix - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

From renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, comes the first in-depth examination of Solidarity - not just as a rallying cry, but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change.. Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly...
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Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform

Debbie Hines - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

A deeply revealing exposé of the American prosecutorial system and its historic and present racial inequities - and how we can transform the system to one of fairness and justice.. In Get Off My Neck, Debbie Hinesdraws on her unique perspective as a trial lawyer, former Baltimore prosecutor,...
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An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America

Matthew Stewart - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.This is a story about a dangerous idea -- one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across...
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The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes

Nick Troiano - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain sight: party primaries. The Primary Solution shows how to fix them.. Congress has become an unproductive and unaccountable mess. Polls show that only 20 percent of Americans...
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, inspiring true stories as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.. To be a bookseller or librarian ... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker....
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Leadership from Bad to Worse: What Happens When Bad Festers

Barbara Kellerman - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Leadership from Bad to Worse is about how leadership that is bad, invariably, inexorably, gets worse--unless it is somehow, by someone or something, stopped or slowed. The process of going from bad to worse tends to be steady, as opposed to hasty. But once bad burrows in, it digs in. It digs...
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling."...
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