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The Museum of Other People

Adam Kuper
Format: Hardcover


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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.. For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate....
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Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy

Isaac Arnsdorf - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself. Inspired by Donald Trump's election lies, a growing...
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How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

Lyn Slater - Plume
Format: Hardcover

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon,"brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental...
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

David Gibbins - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's...
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Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America

Jonathan Vigliotti - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, a character-driven and shocking up-close look at the way climate change is affecting America, right now, and a call to action to protect the people and places we stand to lose if nothing is done to preserve our planet.. Discussion of the climate...
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Finding the Fox: Encounters With an Enigmatic Animal

Andreas Tjernshaugen - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover

An intimate portrait of a mysterious and misunderstood animal.. "Tjernshaugen writes in an easy-to-read style that is full of insight and understanding. I felt like I was sitting beside him as he described fox behavior." - Rick McIntyre, Yellowstone wolf researcher and author...
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Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy

Teresa Ghilarducci - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States - and how we can fix it. While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the notion of dignified retirement for all....
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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Stefanos Geroulanos - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

"In this remarkable and enlivening study, Stefanos Geroulanos traces the development of our modern fascination with humanity's deep past, and lays out that fascination's deadly costs." -- Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century...
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On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

Abrahm Lustgarten - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

"On the Move explains how we got here and where we're headed. It's crucial guide to the world we are creating." -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth ExtinctionA vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know...
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