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Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
A brave and imaginative memoir by the Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amanda Nguyen, detailing her healing journey and groundbreaking activism in the aftermath of her rape at Harvard. Determined to not let her assault derail her goal of joining NASA after graduation, Nguyen opted...- $ 550.00
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The Golden Bough
A Study in Comparative Religion. Published in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures. Frazer's learning inspired a...- $ 700.00
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The Bridge Between Worlds
In a world increasingly preoccupied by borders, bridges celebrate the possibility of connection, allowing the flow of goods, people and ideas. Bridges are among our grandest physical structures with the power of transforming lives and economies, but we also stand (or fall) upon the...- $ 500.00
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Summer
The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer. The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses...- $ 500.00
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
What will the world look like when artificial intelligence outpaces our understanding? How can we protect truth in an age of misinformation, or prepare our children for a future we can barely imagine? What happens to freedom when every move is tracked by data?...- $ 400.00
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How to Say Babylon
Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya...- $ 450.00
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How to Speak Whale
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak with a friend just off the coast of California. It was cold, but idyllic—until a humpback whale breached, landing on...- $ 450.00
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Not the End of the World
This "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems—and explains how we can solve them. In this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges. In...- $ 630.00
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Health and Safety
In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt had recently quit antidepressants for a more expansive world of psychedelic experimentation. From her apartment in Brooklyn, she began to...- $ 600.00
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Pageboy
Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page captures the universal human...- $ 400.00
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A Fine Brother
Flora Sandes, the only Western woman to officially serve as a soldier in World War I, became a national heroine when she fought alongside the Serbian Army and rose through its ranks. This compelling biography traces her remarkable journey—from her spirited almost tomboyish childhood...- $ 500.00
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Secondhand Time
A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a...- $ 550.00
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Based on three years of rigorous reporting, Behind the Beautiful Forevers brings to life the hopes and struggles of Annawadi, a makeshift settlement beside Mumbai’s luxury hotels. As India’s economy booms, the residents of Annawadi chase dreams of a better future amid grinding poverty...- $ 450.00
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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century is a provocative call to realign our modern lives with our ancient biology. Evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein argue that many of today’s struggles—rising anxiety, poor health, political chaos—stem from living in ways that clash...- $ 550.00
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Fight Right
Conflict is the top reason couples seek help—but it's also an opportunity for greater intimacy, deeper connection, and lasting love according to this essential guide from the world’s leading relationship scientists and authors of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and Eight Dates....- $ 550.00
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Sent...- $ 450.00
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My Lady Parts
In My Lady Parts, Doon shares her experience on stage, screen and in real life, examining how our culture still expects women to adhere to certain stereotypes - and punishes those who don't. Doon looks at the stories we are telling and asks: what...- $ 550.00
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In Cold Blood
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost...- $ 450.00
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Written in Water
Written in Water: Keats's Final Journey offers a meticulously researched and evocative account of the last five months in the life of the Romantic poet John Keats. Departing London in September 1820 with his friend Joseph Severn, Keats embarked on a journey to Italy in...- $ 500.00
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The Warmth of Other Suns
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in...- $ 450.00
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The Looming Tower
A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of...- $ 450.00
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The End of Love
Told as a series of personal reflections on her own experiences, this is a bold manifesto by a brilliant young mind on our contemporary understanding of romantic love and how the contradictions of inherited traditions and technology affect the way we build relationships. Tenenbaum...- $ 400.00
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions--direct, wryly funny, and...- $ 400.00
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Break the Cycle
From Dr. Mariel Buqué, a leading trauma psychologist, comes this groundbreaking guide to transforming intergenerational pain into intergenerational abundance. With Break the Cycle , she delivers the definitive guide to healing inherited trauma. Weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the...- $ 550.00
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
When five-year-old Milad Salama’s school bus crashes on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Abed Salama begins a desperate search for his five-year-old son, Milad. What follows is a harrowing journey through roadblocks—both literal and systemic—as Abed confronts the harsh realities of life under occupation. Trapped...- $ 500.00
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Love to Eat: 75 Easy, Craveworthy Recipes for Healthy, Intuitive Eating
In Love to Eat, Nicole Keshishian Modic teaches you how to listen to your body’s cues around food, discover a more flexible relationship to your diet, and nourish your body with real, whole-foods recipes that celebrate flavor. Growing up in Los Angeles, Nicole was surrounded...- $ 500.00
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The Feel Good Foodie Cookbook: 125 Recipes Enhanced with Mediterranean Flavors
125 simple, healthy recipes that are all about marrying the Middle East to the Midwest and finding joy in the process--from the creator of the popular Feel Good Foodie blog. During her childhood in Lebanese communities in Sierra Leone and Michigan, Yumna Jawad grew...- $ 550.00
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It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping
An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to confront our inherited traumas and prejudices so that we may heal the sins of our fathers--from the bestselling author of Never Unfriended. Lisa-Jo...- $ 500.00
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The Demon of Unrest
Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of...- $ 550.00
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The Art of Rivalry
Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart of some of...- $ 500.00
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Patch Work
An expert and intimate exploration of a life in clothes: their memories and stories, enchantments and spells. A linen sheet, smooth with age. A box of buttons, mother-of-pearl and plastic, metal and glass, rattling and untethered. A hundred-year-old pin, forgotten in a hem. Fragile...- $ 400.00
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The Girl Who Was on Fire
Katniss Everdeen's adventures may have come to an end, but her story continues to blaze in the hearts of millions worldwide. In The Girl Who Was on Fire - Movie Edition , sixteen YA authors take you back to the world of the Hunger...- $ 300.00
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The Apology
Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead....- $ 450.00
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The Portable Thoreau
Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the...- $ 430.00
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Killers of the Flower Moon
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one...- $ 320.00
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Molly Roden Winter was a mom of two young children in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids' bedtime, again , she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At impromptu...- $ 400.00
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley
In this new biography, the historian David Waldstreicher offers the fullest account to date of Wheatley’s life and works, correcting myths, reconstructing intimate friendships, and deepening our understanding of her verse and the revolutionary era. Throughout The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley , he demonstrates...- $ 400.00
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The Intelligent Woman's Guide
As a lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of human life, perverting family affections and the relations between the sexes. According to him, all British institutions were “corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest” – and idealism,...- $ 250.00
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The Life of Castruccio Castracani
Set amid the ferment and factionalism of early modern Italy, Life of Castruccio Castracani is a vivid and action-packed account of the rise and fall of a very "Machiavellian" prince. A charismatic warlord of the early 14th century, Castruccio Castracani came from humble beginnings...- $ 400.00
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Prophecies
Found in the Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo da Vinci's writings and drawings, 'The Prophecies' are a collection of enigmatic divinatory pronouncements, some punning and playful, others dire and ominous. While the author's intentions behind these utterances are unclear, they clearly attest to the artist's...- $ 300.00
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Deep Down Dark
When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. For Deep Down Dark, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners...- $ 350.00
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Ordinary Notes
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past--public ones alongside...- $ 500.00
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The Cutting Edge
The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cultural revolution as the most tangible symbol of the Sixties' psychedelic dream of peace, love and playful rebellion. In the midst...- $ 340.00
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.I Am, I Am,...- $ 350.00
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A Confession and Other Religious Writings
Leo Tolstoy confronts life’s deepest questions with unflinching honesty. Wrestling with faith, mortality, and the meaning of existence, these powerful texts mark his spiritual awakening and critique of organized religion. Through works like ‘A Confession’ and ‘The Law of Love and the Law of Violence’,...- $ 350.00
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My Name Is Why
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian....- $ 300.00
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Pimp: The Story Of My Life
In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the men in...- $ 350.00
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The Devil’s Dictionary
If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to...- $ 300.00
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Island on the Edge of the World
For more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopian even; but in the nineteenth century the islands were discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought with them money, disease and despotism....- $ 330.00
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The Abundance
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond...- $ 350.00
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