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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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Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant - Get Lifted Books
Format: Hardcover

In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist. . Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant...
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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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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.. "Sides has mastered the art of you-are-there historical...
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Drive: The Lasting Legacy of Tiger Woods

Bob Harig - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

Bob Harig's latest deep-dive into Tiger Woods' thrilling career, as seen through his iconic 2019 Masters comeback and win. In April of 1997, the world of golf was forever changed. At the age of 21, a young Tiger Woods won the most prestigious golf tournament in the world, the Masters,...
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No Cloak, No Dagger: A Professor's Secret Life Inside the CIA

Lester Paldy - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Lester Paldy, a distinguished professor, was tapped by the CIA in 1988 to join the Agency for a "trial run" as they faced a troubling new situation in Russia. That "temporary" assignment would last for 25 years, during which he would find himself tested by a shifting...
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Baseball Heaven: Up Close and Personal, What It Was Really Like in the Major Leagues

Peter Golenbock - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A behind-the-scenes look at baseball history, as told through timeless interviews with major leaguersFor fifty years, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has been interviewing some of the most fascinating figures in baseball. Their conversations are a journey back in time to the days of Ruth...
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Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

Catherine Coldstream - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"A profoundly moving memoir which gripped me . . . It's about spirituality and asceticism and silence and sisterhood, but also about how flawed human beings can abuse power and how hermetically sealed communities, which should care for and protect their members, can be dangerously...
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Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field

Deion Sanders - Gallery/13A
Format: Hardcover

Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders is one of the greatest motivators and inspirational leaders of all time - on the field, in business, with family, and in his community. Now, he delivers the ultimate playbook of inspiring personal stories, winning strategies, and the motivation required...
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER. "An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction...
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