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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. . While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster...
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The Hank Show: How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives

McKenzie Funk - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of.The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man -- as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing...
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The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics

Joshua Green - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Devil's Bargain comes the revelatory inside story of the uprising within the Democratic Party, of the economic populists led by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.In his classic book Devil's Bargain,...
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Tahir Hamut Izgil - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide. One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years,...
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Madonna: A Rebel Life

Mary Gabriel - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna.. With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion - as great...
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Magic: The Life of Earvin "Magic" Johnson

Roland Lazenby - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of the basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson, from the highly respected, career sportswriter and author of Michael Jordan: The Life.Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and at times controversial, athletes in history. His iconic smile lifted the dowdy...
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Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You

A'ja Wilson - Flatiron Books: A Moment of Lift Book
Format: Hardcover

"Through honest stories and inspiring lessons from her life, A'ja Wilson reminds us to never doubt who we are or apologize for being true to ourselves. Dear Black Girls is a must-read for every Black girl out there." -- Gabrielle Union, New York Times bestselling author of We're...
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Alphabetical Diaries

Sheila Heti - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour.Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. Passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are her alphabetical diaries.
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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

József Debreczeni - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps - with a foreword by Jonathan Freedland. József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944;...
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Failure Is Not NOT an Option: How the Chubby Gay Son of a Jesus-Obsessed Lesbian Found Love, Family, and Podcast Success . . . and a Bunch of Other Stuff

Patrick Hinds - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

Patrick Hinds has failed. A lot. In fact, he's kind of an expert at it - which is why he's uniquely qualified to say that failure is a good thing.. On paper, the chubby, poor, gay son of a lesbian who wrote pornographic letters to Jesus isn't the person that you think of when...
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