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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War - a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. One of Time's Most Anticipated Books...
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The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

Tracie McMillan - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A genre-bending work of journalism and memoir by award-winning writer Tracie McMillan tallies the cash benefit -- and cost -- of racism in America. In The White Bonus, McMillan asks a provocative question about racism in America: When people of color are denied so much, what are white...
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The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union

Stephen Puleo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero.. In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart-when the very future of the nation hung in the balance-Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest,...
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The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now

Bakari Sellers - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landscape and policies that are impacting Black families and communities and offers solutions for a better tomorrow.In late May in 2020, while discussing the murder of George Floyd on CNN, Bakari...
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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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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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Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

Peter Schweizer - Harper
Format: Hardcover

It's often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality is far worse: the war is hot, and the body count is one-sided.China is killing Americans and working aggres­sively to maximize the carnage while our leaders remain passive and, in some cases, compliant. Why?If anyone...
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Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the "Pill Mill Killer"

PHILIP EIL - Steerforth
Format: Hardcover

An obsessive true crime investigation of a bizarre and unlikely perpetrator, who's serving the opioid epidemic's longest term for illegal prescriptions - four life sentences Written in the tradition of I'll Be Gone in the Dark and True Crime Addict, combining Dopesick's...
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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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