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A Rebel in Gaza: A Daughter of Rafah Speaks
A Rebel in Gaza is the powerful memoir of Asmaa al-Ghoul, a fearless Palestinian journalist and activist born in Rafah and raised in the Gaza Strip. From a young age, she defied the restrictive norms around her—refusing to cover her hair, questioning political dogma,...- $ 450.00
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The Argonauts
Genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which...- $ 350.00
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The Geography of Bliss
Part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens...- $ 450.00
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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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Notes from an Island
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, where for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the visual...- $ 600.00
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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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Wildwood
Naturalist and writer Roger Deakin takes readers on a rich, immersive journey through forests around the world, from the ancient oak woods of England to the walnut groves of Kyrgyzstan and the pine forests of Eastern Europe. With poetic insight and a deep reverence...- $ 600.00
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The Mushroom at the End of the World
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it...- $ 400.00
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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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The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. This is the third and last of Sir David’s...- $ 500.00
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Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth
Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert,...- $ 450.00
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Forest of Noise
Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for...- $ 400.00
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Sister Outsider
In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope....- $ 400.00
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The Earth Transformed
Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In...- $ 550.00
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka
An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most important, influential, and visionary writers Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including...- $ 550.00
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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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The Wild Silence
Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 homeless miles along The Salt Path, living on the windswept and wild English coastline; the cliffs, the sky and the chalky earth now feel like their home. Moth has a terminal...- $ 400.00
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The Salt Path
Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630...- $ 400.00
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Arboretum
Step into the majestic world of trees with this beautifully illustrated guide from the Welcome to the Museum series. From ancient oaks and mythical yews to rare ginkgos and towering redwoods, Arboretum showcases the wonder and diversity of trees across the globe. With expert...- $ 800.00
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Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm
Isabella Tree tells the remarkable true story of how she and her husband, Charles Burrell, transformed their struggling 3,500-acre farm in West Sussex, England, into one of the most important rewilding projects in Europe. Faced with declining soil fertility and failing profits from intensive...- $ 500.00
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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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Doppelganger
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d...- $ 500.00
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the...- $ 500.00
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Aftermath
Acclaimed author Rachel Cusk offers a raw account of life after the collapse of her ten-year marriage. Set in the aftermath of personal upheaval, the memoir follows Cusk as she navigates the complex process of rebuilding her identity—not just as a writer or woman,...- $ 500.00
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A Short History Of Myth
Since the dawn of humanity, we have created myths to make sense of our world. In A Short History of Myth, acclaimed author Karen Armstrong traces the arc of mythmaking from prehistoric burial rites to the rise of the modern novel, revealing how stories...- $ 300.00
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A Journey Around My Room
What happens when you're confined to a single room for six weeks? For Xavier de Maistre, a young French officer arrested after a duel in 1790, the answer was simple: he became a traveler in his own home. Dressed in his pink and blue...- $ 300.00
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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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A Calendar of Wisdom
In the final years of his life, Leo Tolstoy set out to distill the wisdom of the ages. The result was, A Calendar of Wisdom—a deeply personal, daily collection of reflections drawn from the world’s greatest thinkers, including Socrates, the Buddha, Jesus, Confucius, and...- $ 400.00
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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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On the Edge
In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape—and dominate—so much...- $ 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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In Order to Live
In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto...- $ 400.00
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The Message
In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with...- $ 450.00
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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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Our Migrant Souls
In Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive and personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the United States right now. Taking on the impacts of colonialism, public policy, immigration, media, and pop culture, Our Migrant...- $ 500.00
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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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Bicycle Diaries
Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads David Byrne--who has relied on a bike to get around New York City since the early 1980s--relates his...- $ 450.00
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares...- $ 250.00
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Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus—a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history. Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost...- $ 800.00
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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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Cobalt Red
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the...- $ 350.00
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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 Passage of Power
The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to 1964. It is an unparalleled account of the machinations behind both John Kennedy’s 1960 presidential nomination and his decision to offer Johnson the vice...- $ 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 Color of Everything
Growing up in the mountains of Utah, Cory Richards was constantly surrounded by the outdoors. His father, a high school teacher and a ski patroller, spent years teaching Richards and his brother how to ski, climb, mountaineer, and survive in the wild. Despite a...- $ 580.00
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Postwar
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on...- $ 500.00
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Persepolis
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The...- $ 400.00
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