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Hemingway’s Boat

By Paul Hendrickson From National Book Critics Circle Award winner Paul Hendrickson, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will...

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Just My Type

By Simon Garfield New in paperback! A delightfully inquisitive tour that explores the rich history and the subtle powers of fonts. Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie...

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Proof of Heaven

By Dr. Eben Alexander A scientist’s case for the afterlife… Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those...

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Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper

By Marina Marchese New in paperback! “Surpassing the predictable “how I changed careers” memoir of finding the good life, Marchese’s informative guide is packed with facts about everything from...

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For All of Us, One Today

By Richard Blanco, 2013 inaugural poet For All of Us, One Today is a fluid, poetic account of Richard Blanco’s life-changing experiences as the inaugural poet in 2013. In this brief and evocative...

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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the...

By Nathalia Holt. Traces the pivotal achievements of the elite female science recruits at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where in the mid-twentieth century they transformed rocket design and enabled...

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Lab Girl

By Hope Jahren. Lab Girl (now in paper) is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s remarkable stories: about her...

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

By Ibram X. Kendi. A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and...

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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel

By Lisa See. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about...

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Priestdaddy

By Patricia Lockwood. NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2017 SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post * Elle * NPR * New York Magazine * Boston Globe * Nylon * Slate * The Cut...

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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

By Thomas E. Ricks. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the...

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Artemis

By Andy Weir. Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon’s wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find...

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Proof of Heaven

By Dr. Eben Alexander A scientist’s case for the afterlife… Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those...

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Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper

By Marina Marchese New in paperback! “Surpassing the predictable “how I changed careers” memoir of finding the good life, Marchese’s informative guide is packed with facts about everything from...

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For All of Us, One Today

By Richard Blanco, 2013 inaugural poet For All of Us, One Today is a fluid, poetic account of Richard Blanco’s life-changing experiences as the inaugural poet in 2013. In this brief and evocative...

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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the...

By Nathalia Holt. Traces the pivotal achievements of the elite female science recruits at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where in the mid-twentieth century they transformed rocket design and enabled...

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Lab Girl

By Hope Jahren. Lab Girl (now in paper) is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s remarkable stories: about her...

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

By Ibram X. Kendi. A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and...

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Artemis

By Andy Weir. Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon’s wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find...

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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel

By Lisa See. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about...

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