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A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution, Paperback - Martin Padgett

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The Book of Poetry for Hard Times: An Anthology, Paperback - Robert Pinsky

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The Stone Girl, Paperback - Dirk Wittenborn

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Master and Commander, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem, Paperback - Sandra Tsing Loh

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Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris, Paperback - Arthur J. Magida

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In Deep: The Fbi, the Cia, and the Truth about America's Deep State, Paperback - David Rohde

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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes, Paperback - David Robson

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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and Democracy in the 21st Century, Paperback - Thant Myint-U

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Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob, Hardcover - Russell Shorto

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A Children's Bible, Paperback - Lydia Millet

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds, Hardcover - Scott Weidensaul

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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time, Hardcover - Craig Taylor

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The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write: Poems, Paperback - Gregory Orr

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Appropriate: A Provocation, Paperback - Paisley Rekdal

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The Age of Football: Soccer and the 21st Century, Hardcover - David Goldblatt

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Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea, Paperback - John Lehman

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When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapo...

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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965, Hardcover - Jia Lynn Yang

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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome, Hardcover - Douglas Boin

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Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization, " at least in the conve...

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Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car, Hardcover - Anthony M. Townsend

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For decades we have dreamed of building an automobile that can drive itself. But as that dream of autonomy draws close, we are discovering that the...

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The Stone Girl, Hardcover - Dirk Wittenborn

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Reading the World, Paperback - Michael Austin

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8 Keys to Brain-Body Balance - Robert Scaer

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The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century, Paperback - David Reynolds

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American Government: A Brief Introduction, Paperback - Stephen Ansolabehere

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Signs of Safety: A Solution and Safety Oriented Approach to Child Protection, Hardcover - Steve Edwards

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The Meaning of Night: A Confession, Paperback - Michael Cox

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Norton Anthology of Western Music, Paperback - J. Peter Burkholder

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Wolves of Eden, Paperback - Kevin McCarthy

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Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire, Paperback - Morris Berman

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In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish Way to World-Class Schools - Pasi Sahlberg, Timothy D. Walker

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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, Hardcover - Annalee Newitz

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We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year, Hardcover - Charles Wheelan

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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation, Hardcover - ***

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December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abra...

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How to Treat People: A Nurse's Notes, Paperback - Molly Case

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The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media, Paperback - Brooke Gladstone

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When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep, Hardcover - ***

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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution, Hardcover - ***

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Felon: Poems, Paperback - Reginald Dwayne Betts

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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, Paperback - Claudio Saunt

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Floaters: Poems, Hardcover - Martín Espada

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What Einstein Kept Under His Hat: Secrets of Science in the Kitchen, Paperback - Robert L. Wolke

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Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel, Hardcover - Stephen Budiansky

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Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design, Paperback - Mark Foster Gage

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Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World, Hardcover - Richard C. Francis

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H. M. S. Surprise, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy, Paperback - Dani Anguiano

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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Paperback - Adrienne Rich

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Once, Paperback - Meghan O'Rourke

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Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry, Paperback - Joy Harjo

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At the Chinese Table: A Memoir with Recipes, Hardcover - Carolyn Phillips

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All the Water I've Seen Is Running, Hardcover - Elias Rodriques

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The Sea We Swim in: How Stories Work in a Data-Driven World, Hardcover - Frank Rose

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When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer, Hardcover - Curtis Wilkie

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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945, Paperback - Ian W. Toll

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The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration, Hardcover - Sarah Everts

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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans, Hardcover - Cynthia Barnett

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Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before g...

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Mother Grains: Recipes for the Grain Revolution, Hardcover - Roxana Jullapat

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Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto, Paperback - Jenny Price

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Poor George, Paperback - Paula Fox

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Trespass, Paperback - Rose Tremain

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How We Practice Therapy Now, Paperback - Chanté D. Deloach

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Future psychotherapy is not confined to the office: it can be online, virtual, wellness-oriented, flexible, racially conscious, and in service of p...

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The Beauty of Your Face, Paperback - Sahar Mustafah

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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense, Hardcover - Edward White

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