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By: Ignatieff, Michael
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
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Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned histo

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- Author: Ignatieff, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0805055223
- Language: English
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By: Healy, Thomas
Soul City
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“One of the greatest least-told stories in American history. . . . Healy does an excellent job recounting the details.”
–The New York Times Book Review

In 1969, with America’s inner cities in turmoil

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- Author: Healy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250811260
- Language: English
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By: Kao Kalia Yang
Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir
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From “an exceptional storyteller,” Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author

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- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1250296854
- Language: English
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By: Sfard, Michael
Wall and the Gate
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From renowned human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, an unprecedented exploration of the struggle for human rights in Israel’s courts

A farmer from a village in the occupied West Bank, cut off from his ol

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- Author: Sfard, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1250860644
- Language: English
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By: Leana Wen
Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health
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From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider’s account of public health and its crucial role–from opioid addiction to global pandemic–and an inspiring story of her journey from struggl
- Author: Wen, Leana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250839351
- Language: English
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By: Slobodian, Quinn
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
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A Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023

In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal:

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- Author: Slobodian, Quinn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250871859
- Language: English
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By: Graver, Elizabeth
Kantika
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A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.

A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s

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- Author: Graver, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250869838
- Language: English
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By: Taylor, Astra
Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
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What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a “New Civil Rights Leader” (LA Times), provides surprising answers.

There is no sh

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- Author: Taylor, Astra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1250231280
- Language: English
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By: Gawande, Atul
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
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A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.

Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient i

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- Author: Gawande, Atul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0805063196
- Language: English
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By: Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander
The Passenger
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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

“A jewel of a rediscovery . . . . A riveting, noirish, intensely filmic portrait of an ambivalent fugitive, cornered but not captured, safest when in motion, at greatest risk

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- Author: Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1250811287
- Language: English
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By: Merlan, Anna
Republic of Lies
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A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond

American society has a

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- Author: Merlan, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1250231272
- Language: English
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By: Xuetao, Shuang
Rouge Street: Three Novellas
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“Rouge Street gives voice to an intriguing cast of characters left behind by China’s economic miracle . . . Shuang pulls no punches . . . From start to finish, his scope is close to the ground, his la

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- Author: Xuetao, Shuang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 125087114X
- Language: English
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By: Jake Halpern
Welcome to the New World
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Now in a full-length book, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic story of a refugee family who fled the civil war in Syria to make a new life in America

After escaping a Syrian prison, Ibr

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- Author: Halpern, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1250305594
- Language: English
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By: Snowden, Edward
Permanent Record
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he he

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- Author: Snowden, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250772907
- Language: English
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By: Zinn, Howard
A People’s History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation
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Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form

Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of the United St

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- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0805087443
- Language: English
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By: Gawande, Atul
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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#1 New York Times Bestseller

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

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- Author: Gawande, Atul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0805095152
- Language: English
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By: Joe Sacco
Paying the Land
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, POP MATTERS, COMICS BEAT, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

From the “heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Ec

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- Author: Sacco, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1627799036
- Language: English
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By: Orlando Figes
The Story of Russia
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“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West.”
–Anne Applebau

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- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871395
- Language: English
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By: Nordell, Jessica
The End of Bias: A Beginning: How We Eliminate Unconscious Bias and Create a More Just World
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Finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Lukas Book Prize, and the Royal Society Science Book Prize

Winner of the 2022 Nautilus Book Award Silver Medal and an Hono

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- Author: Nordell, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250812089
- Language: English
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By: Greg Grandin
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall.

Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of a
- Author: Grandin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 1250214858
- Language: English