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Biography
Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair by William J. Mann
A noted Hollywood biographer delves into the courtship and twelve-year marriage of Hollywood legends Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart with extraordinary new revelations into both their personal and professional lives.
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The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
Part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, the author, midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, explores the state of being that awaits him, not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics and customs so he can not only survive this transition but grow from it.
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First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent by Lorissa Rinehart
This biography of photojournalist Dickey Chapelle chronicles her trailblazing and heroic career from World War II through the early days of Vietnam, including her radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed.
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Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Based on hundreds of new interviews, this often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady explores the flaws and contradictions that only served to make her even more iconic.
Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones by Elizabeth Winder
Introduces the four women who inspired, styled, wrote for, remixed and ultimately helped create the legend of the Rolling Stones and transformed them into international stars, but who were themselves marginalized by the male-dominated rock world of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.
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A Patriot's Promise: Protecting My Brothers, Fighting for My Life, and Keeping My Word by Israel Del Toro, Jr. Contributions by T.L. Heyer
An Air Force Special Warfare Operator recalls his harrowing ordeal of surviving an IED attack in Afghanistan in order to keep a promise he made to his dying father to take care of his younger siblings.
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President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C. W. Goodyear
A prominent historian presents this magisterial biography chronicling the extraordinary, tragic life and times of our 20th president—an impoverished boy working his way from the frontier to the Presidency, trying to raise a more righteous, peaceful Republic out of the ashes of civil war.
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Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles by Kate Flannery
Arriving in Los Angeles after graduating college for a new job at an upstart clothing company called American Apparel, the author slowly loses herself in rowdy sex-positivity, racy photo shoots and a cultlike devotion to the unorthodox CEO, leading her to question the company’s ethics and wrestle with her own.
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
Featuring beautiful full-color images of Dutch paintings throughout, this stunning book about one of the most vibrant periods in European art and life is centered around the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap – an enormous explosion in 1654 Holland that claimed the life of one of the greatest artists of the 17th century.
General Nonfiction
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren. Foreword by Michael Connelly
Chronicles one woman’s mission to uncover the secrets of America’s most prolific serial killer from his prison cell.
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Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men over Motherhood by Allison Yarrow
An award-winning journalist exposes the ways that modern maternal healthcare is designed to take power from women, and offers solutions to return power and control to birthing people.
Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s by Alan Paul
Based on first-person interviews, historical documents and deep research, a New York Times best-selling author looks at the profound musical and cultural impact of the Allman Brothers’ 1973 LP Brothers and Sisters.
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Dark Future: Uncovering the Great Reset's Terrifying Next Phase by Glenn Beck with Justin Trask Haskins
The authors reveal what they think are the most important technologies and social and cultural changes that will soon cause an unprecedented level of disruption in the United States, as well as in countless other nations.
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems by Giorgio Parisi
The 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics looks at how observing the flight patterns of birds can help us understand complex systems of all kinds as well as the surprising kinship between physics and other disciplines.
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Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas by Karen Pinchin
This look at how at how our insatiable appetite for tuna transformed a cottage industry into a global force also reveals the terrible effects that climate change and over-fishing are having on our oceans.
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The Life We Chose: William “Big Billy” D'elia and the Last Secrets of America's Most Powerful Crime Family by Matt Birkbeck
An investigative journalist takes readers deep inside the inner workings of the mob from the perspective of William “Big Billy” D’Elia, the “adopted” son of legendary organized crime boss Russell Bufalino who was a witness and participant to major historical events that have stymied law enforcement to this day.
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Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement by Roy A. Meals
Shedding new light on the essential tissue that moves us through life, an orthopedic surgeon takes us on a wide-ranging journey through anatomy, biology, history and health to unlock the mysteries of our muscles and explore major advancements in medicine and fitness.
Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America's Cartels by Deborah Bonello
Giving voice to the women of notorious drug-trafficking monarchies for the first time, a VICE journalist explores the hidden power these women wield in Latin American drug cartels and shows how they are fully capable of being as ambitious, innovative, ruthless and violent as their male counterparts.
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 by John McPhee
Looking back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, and reflecting on projects he never got around to – people to profile, regions he meant to portray, a literary legend presents a collection of vignettes and a “reminiscent montage” from a writing life.
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
An award-winning investigative journalist takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry, the secretive multibillion dollar world underpinning the modern economy, to tell a new story of humanity based on what we leave behind, and, along the way, shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world.
History
Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski
This history and celebration of the cultures of Eastern Europe chronicles a thousand years of war, strife and bloodshed, from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism and the birth of modern nation-states.
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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience—told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic.
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MEDICAL
Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care by Ilana Yurkiewicz
An award-winning physician-writer exposes how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy and lives—and how we can fix them.
Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health by Anupam B. Jena & Christopher Worsham
A book at the intersection of health and economics reveals the hidden side of medicine and how unexpected—but predictable—events can profoundly affect our health.
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We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care by Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein
Drawing on original research, American history and a comparative analysis of what works and what doesn’t from systems around the world, a Stanford health economist and an MIT economist and MacArthur Genius present a thought-provoking proposal for American health insurance reform, arguing for automatic, basic and universal coverage for everyone.
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Political Science
Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump by Miles Taylor
The author of the New York Times best-seller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting the stage for “The Next Trump.”
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End by Neil Howe
The visionary behind the best-selling The Fourth Turning returns with an extraordinary new prediction: what we see all around us—the polarization, the growing threat of civil conflict and global war—will culminate by the early 2030s, posing both great danger and great promise.
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The King of Late Night by Greg Gutfeld
The five-time New York Times best-selling author and host of the #1 rated late night show GUTFIELD! reveals never-before-told stories of his upbringing and early career, what it’s like going head-to-head with the liberal media and what it took to flip the script on the comedy landscape.
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SCIENCE
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
A New York Times best-selling journalist shares an explosive new understanding of heat in this searing examination of the impact that rising temperatures will have on our lives and on our planet.
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It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World by Mark Miodownik
In this hilarious guide, a best-selling science writer and materials scientist profiles the 10 gases that shaped human history, from hydrogen to neon, and presents the story of that tricky space where science and belief collide, and of the elusive limits of human understanding.
Social Science
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman
Compiled by the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts and featuring contributions from fourteen of the most cutting-edge crime writers of our time, this anthology sheds light on cases that offer critical perspectives on our society.
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Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey
From a cultural historian and the acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power.
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