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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein Author

One writer’s attempt to confront her own double—and in so doing, confronting the sinister doppelgangers and shadow…

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A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age

by Alec Wilkinson Author

This book is a spirited exploration of math’s deepest mysteries and conundrums. Decades after struggling with math as…

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Essays One: Reading and Writing

by Lydia Davis Author

This collection of essays offers a glimpse into the mind of a master writer, known for her sharp wit and original…

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Eliot After The Waste Land

by Robert Crawford Author

This is the untold story of T. S. Eliot’s adult life, drawing from the intimate exchanges between T. S. Eliot and his…

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Sing, Aretha, Sing!: Aretha Franklin, "Respect," and the Civil Rights Movement

by Hanif Abdurraqib Author and Ashley Evans Illustrator

This picture book biography celebrates Aretha Franklin's profound impact on the Civil Rights Movement as a powerful…

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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

by Mitchell Duneier Author

This book traces a history of a place that dates back over 500 years, looking at the first Jewish ghetto to the present…

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Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

by Dan Saladino Author

In this book, author and journalist Dan Saladino travels the world to document endangered foods. He highlights stories…

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The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captican Cook to Climate Change

by Iain McCalman Author

The Great Barrier Reef has captivated people for centuries. However, its history has been elusive. In this book,…

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Something's Wrong!: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear

by Jory John Author and Eric Kraan Illustrator

In this laugh-out-loud picture book from acclaimed children's author Jory John, follow the story of Jeff the bear as he…

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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

by John Tresch Author

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is a fascinating biography on Edgar Allan Poe with a particular focus on his…

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Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

by John Waters Author

A darkly hilarious tale of romance gone awry from author and filmmaker John Waters. Marsha is a suitcase thief, a…

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Heart: A History

by Sandeep Jauhar Author

Question: What makes the human heart unique? While it was beyond our understanding for millenia, with advances in…

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The Ghosts Went Floating

by Kim Norman Author and Jay Fleck Illustrator

Forty illustrated pages take the reader on a journey leading to a Halloween party!  Inspired by the children's song…

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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Morality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

by Anne Boyer Author

Capitalism, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, corporate lies, and having the wellbeing of our bodies determined by digital…

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber Author and David Wengrow Author

In this new comprehensive history of human existence, David Graeber teams up with David Wengrow to chart the history of…

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman Author

In this international bestseller, renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Daniel Kahneman,…

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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

by Sarah Schulman Author

In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities,…

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Magic: A History, From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

by Chris Gosden Author

Over the last few centuries, magic has developed a bad reputation—thanks to the unsavory tactics of shady…

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The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood

by Julian Rubinstein Author

On the last Friday evening of the summer of 2013, five shots rang out in the parking lot of a new Boys & Girls Club in…

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Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

by Peter Godfrey-Smith Author

In his acclaimed 2016 book Other Minds, the philosopher and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explored the mind of the…

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Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and…

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Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

by John Gray Author

Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, and how to be…

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This Book of Mine

by Sarah Stewart Author and David Small Illustrator

From a girl reading her favorite book out on a fire escape to a butterfly watcher with a guidebook in the park, a little…

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The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (With Recipes)

by Kate Lebo Author

A is for Aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, and superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for…

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Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church

by Megan Phelps-Roper Author

At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members…

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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

by Roald Dahl Editor

Who better to investigate the literary spirit world than that supreme connoisseur of the unexpected, Roald Dahl? Of the…

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Art Is Life: The Life of Artist Keith Haring

by Tami Lewis Brown Author and Keith Negley Illustrator

Keith Haring believed that art should be enjoyed by everyone, not just those with the money or inclination to visit…

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The Art of the Publisher

by Roberto Calasso Author and Richard Dixon Author

A reflection and insight into the world of publishing through Roberto Calasso's artistic work. Publishing is an art, a…

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Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

by Moira Weigel Author

Did you know that the origins of dating stem from prostitution? Especially in today's dating landscape, it's hard enough…

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Pedal Power: How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World

by Allan Drummond Author

Amsterdam is well-known for being a bike city - and although nowadays bicycling within the city is a safe and beneficial…

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