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The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
$32.50 Add to cartImagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.
In this propulsive and eminently read
- Author: Brettschneider, Corey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324006277
- Language: English
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Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
$26.99 Add to cartGeorge Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between t
- Author: Beers, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075082
- Language: English
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American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous
$27.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be a “diva”? A shifting, increasingly loaded term, it has been used to both deride and celebrate charismatic and unapologetically fierce performers like Aretha Franklin, Divine, a
- Author: Paredez, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035307
- Language: English
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Old King
$27.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1976, Duane Oshun finds himself stranded in a remote Montana town beset by a series of strange and menacing events. He takes a job as a logger and builds a cabin on an isolated road n
- Author: Loskutoff, Maxim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0393868192
- Language: English
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Why War?
$27.99 Add to cartRichard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whe
- Author: Overy, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324021748
- Language: English
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Coexistence: Stories
$15.99 Add to cartA grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exchange for a painter’s love. The anonymous voices of queer native men converge amid violent eroti
- Author: Belcourt, Billy-Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075945
- Language: English
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Caledonian Road
$32.50 Add to cartCampbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and f?ted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public–yet he never imagined that a single year in L
- Author: O’Hagan, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074876
- Language: English
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Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History
$13.54 Add to cartA refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels
- Author: Glover, Hoke S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078871
- Language: English
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Such Kindness
$18.99 Add to cartTom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family’s dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortga
- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076135
- Language: English
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The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
$32.50 Add to cartWith the nation lurching from one crisis to the next, many Americans believe that something fundamental has gone wrong. Why aren’t college graduates able to achieve financial security? Why is governme
- Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091169
- Language: English
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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
$17.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatme
- Author: Sevigny, Melissa L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076119
- Language: English
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
$27.99 Add to cartIn 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live i
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882004
- Language: English
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Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
$23.99 Add to cartOur politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation on subjects from the seemingly minor (“Ode to Nap
- Author: Parker, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091630
- Language: English
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Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
$32.50 Add to cartEconomist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he’s often radically opposed to the political mainstream, and delights in upending what’s expected of a Black pu
- Author: Loury, Glenn C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881342
- Language: English
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Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin
$35.00 Add to cartBy early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University’s brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association
- Author: Markel, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324036745
- Language: English
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
$39.99 Add to cartIn a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035285
- Language: English
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Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
$35.00 Add to cartWe are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brou
- Author: Parkinson, Robert G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091770
- Language: English
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My Darling Boy
$21.99 Add to cartSeven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, lique
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074604
- Language: English
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
$29.99 Add to cartThe Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.
Carl Elliott is a bioethici
- Author: Elliott, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1324065508
- Language: English
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Two Minds: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartDoes loss define us, or do we define loss? Tracing the duality of grief as it reverberates through a family, Callie Siskel wrestles with questions of identity and inheritance in precise, lucid poetry.
- Author: Siskel, Callie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073675
- Language: English
