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  • MAYDAY 1971
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    MAYDAY 1971
    LAWRENCE ROBERTS
    An "illuminating" account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history "that resonates today, when our democracy is again being challenged" (Larry Tye, New York Times–bestselling author of  Demagogue). They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a ...

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  • THE BOHEMIANS
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    THE BOHEMIANS
    NORMAN OHLER
    "An astonishing story of the anti-Nazi resistance—a story of love, incredible bravery and self-sacrifice . . . brilliantly told." —Antony Beevor,  New York Times-bestselling author   Harro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leadi...

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  • THE DALAI LAMA
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    THE DALAI LAMA
    ALEXANDER NORMAN
    The first definitive biography of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning spiritual leader—a story by turns inspiring, surprising—from an acclaimed Tibetan scholar. The Dalai Lama's message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame, he remains personally elusive. Now, Alexander Norman, acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of the his...

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  • THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD
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    THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD
    KENT GARRETT / JEANNE ELLSWORTH
    The untold story of Harvard's class of '63, whose Black students fought to craft their own identities on the cusp between integration & affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen "Negro" boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazi...

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  • VIRGINIA WOOLF
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    VIRGINIA WOOLF
    GILLIAN GILL
    An insightful, witty look at the life of Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her . How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies—of strength, style, and creativity—shaped Woolf's path to the radical writing that inspires so many today. Gil...

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  • IMPEACH
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    IMPEACH
    NEAL KATYAL / SAM KOPPELMAN
    An acclaimed Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General argues why impeachment is the only remedy for the dangers posed by President Trump. No one is above the law. This belief is as American as freedom of speech and turkey on Thanksgiving—held sacred by Democrats and Republicans alike. But as the celebrated Supreme Court Lawyer and former acting solicitor general...

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  • RETURN TO THE REICH
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    RETURN TO THE REICH
    ERIC LICHTBLAU
    The remarkable story of a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines. Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States—they were among the last German Jews to escape, in 1938.   In America, Freddy tried...

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  • EYES IN THE SKY
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    EYES IN THE SKY
    ARTHUR HOLLAND MICHEL
    The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon secretly developed a godlike surveillance system for monitoring America's enemies overseas, and how it is now being used to watch us in our own backyards. Whereas ...

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  • THEY BLED BLUE
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    THEY BLED BLUE
    JASON TURBOW
    "A skillful mixture of biographies, on-field action, and behind-the-scenes baseball politics in a story with a happy ending for Dodgers fans." — Kirkus Reviews The award–winning author of  Dynastic, Fantastic, Bombastic and  The Baseball Codes delivers a sprawling, mad tale of excess and exuberance, the likes of which could only have occurred in that place, at that time. That i...

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  • A SEASON ON THE WIND
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    A SEASON ON THE WIND
    KENN KAUFMAN
    A close study of one season along Lake Erie that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment.   "Kenn Kaufman knows his birds and their miraculous journeys—and he feels them deeply, too. An enlightening, thought-provoking, and poignant read." —Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Genius of Birds Every spring, billions of bird...

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  • INSIDE THE EMPIRE
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    INSIDE THE EMPIRE
    BOB KLAPISCH / PAUL SOLOTAROFF
    New York Times Bestseller: "Pops open the hood of how the Yankees are run and gives us a rare peek at the machinery." —Tom Verducci, New York Times–bestselling author of The Cubs Way This is a unique behind-closed-doors look at the New York Yankees, the wealthiest and most famous sports franchise in the world. Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop,  Inside the Empire g...

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  • CHEROKEE AMERICA
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    CHEROKEE AMERICA
    MARGARET VERBLE
    This Spur Award–winning novel of the Cherokee Nation follows an epic saga of family alliances and culture clashes in the aftermath of the Civil War. Cherokee Nation West, 1875. It's early in spring, and a baby has gone missing—along with a preacher, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, and a stash of gold. Cherokee America Singer is not amused. Known as "Check," the wealthy ...

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  • SILENCE
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    SILENCE
    JANE BROX
    A compelling history of silence as a shaper of the human mind—in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives—from the author of Brilliant. Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society. B...

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  • LINCOLN'S LIEUTENANTS
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    LINCOLN'S LIEUTENANTS
    STEPHEN W. SEARS
    A multilayered group biography of the Civil War commanders who led the Army of the Potomac: "a staggering work . . . by a masterly historian" ( Kirkus, starred review). The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. T...

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  • ALL THE GALLANT MEN
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    ALL THE GALLANT MEN
    DONALD STRATTON / KEN GIRE
    The  New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor "An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage." — Reader's Digest In this, the first memoir by a USS  Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the  Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight.  At 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Sea...

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  • THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2016
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    THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2016
    KAREN JOY FOWLER / JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS
    From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and...

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  • THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2016
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    THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2016
    JUNOT DÍAZ
    "This terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers lives up to Diaz's 'rah-rah' (his term) rallying cry for the form." — USA Today "If the novel is our culture's favored literary form, upon which we heap all our desiccated literary laurels, if the novel is, say our Jaime Lannister, then the short story is our very own Tyrion: the disdained little br...

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  • SIDDHARTHA'S BRAIN
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    SIDDHARTHA'S BRAIN
    JAMES KINGSLAND
    Guardian science editor James Kingsland unlocks the ancient science of enlightenment through the journey of Siddhartha—better known as Buddha. In a lush grove on the banks of the Neranjara in northern India—400 years before the birth of Christ, when the foundations of western science and philosophy were being laid by the great minds of Ancient Greece—a prince turned ascetic wan...

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  • CONVERSATIONS WITH STALIN
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    CONVERSATIONS WITH STALIN
    MILOVAN DJILAS
    A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich. ...

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  • NUMBERS IN THE DARK
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    NUMBERS IN THE DARK
    ITALO CALVINO
    From the acclaimed, genre-bending Italian fabulist author, a posthumous collection of career-spanning stories previously unavailable in English. "Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story." —from Numbers in the Dark Written between 1943 and 1984, the storie...

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  • THE COMPLETE COSMICOMICS
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    THE COMPLETE COSMICOMICS
    ITALO CALVINO
    The complete collection of "nimble and often hilarious" short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR).   Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of a "cosmic know-it-all" with the unpronounceable name of Qfwfq, Calvi...

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  • A TEACHER'S GUIDE FOR A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY
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    A TEACHER'S GUIDE FOR A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY
    JOHN IRVING / AMY JURSKIS
    A teacher's guide to the classic coming of age novel, written in alignment with Common Core Standards. For teachers: We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a s...

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  • SPARTAN UP!
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    SPARTAN UP!
    JOE DE SENA / JEFF O'CONNELL
    "A must read for anyone looking to take his performance to the next level, be it in athletics or in life." —Dean Karnazes, ultramarathoner and  New York Times–bestselling author of  Ultra Marathon Man What do marathoners do when 26.2 miles just isn't enough anymore? They try obstacle racing, combining the endurance challenges of a marathon with the mind- and body-bending rigors...

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  • AUTO BIOGRAPHY
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    AUTO BIOGRAPHY
    EARL SWIFT
    A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy—a car that has already passed through twelve pairs of hands before his—while financial ruin, government bureaucrats and the FBI close in on him. Slumped among hundreds of other decrep...

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  • NATURAL OBSESSIONS
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    NATURAL OBSESSIONS
    NATALIE ANGIER
    This classic work of science writing chronicles the search for the origins of cancer—with a new introduction by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author. In Natural Obsessions, acclaimed science writer Natalie Angier holds a microscope up to the agony and ecstasy of scientific research. Angier spent close to a year observing the work of two prominent biologists—MIT's Robert Weinberg a...

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  • END OF DAYS
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    END OF DAYS
    JAMES SWANSON
    In End of Days, James L. Swanson, the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, brings to life the minute-by-minute details of the JFK assassination—from the Kennedys' arrival in Texas through the shooting in Dealey Plaza and the shocking aftermath that continues to reverberate in our national consciousness fifty years later. The assas...

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  • CHASER
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    CHASER
    JOHN W. PILLEY / HILARY HINZMANN
    "This marvelous blend of good science and heartwarming dog story will inspire all of us to reexamine our canine friends." — Booklist, starred review The New York Times–bestselling story of a very smart Border collie who redefined animal intelligence. A joyous explanation of behavior, learning, and perception—any pet owner, parent, teacher, or psychologist will be enriched by th...

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  • NINJA
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    NINJA
    JOHN MAN
    The definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man's own treks across Asia "An immensely entertaining history, packed with splendidly blood-thirsty tales of derring-do, feats of endurance and self-sacrifice." — The Guardian Out of the violent chaos of medieval Japan, a remarkable band of peasants rose to become the w...

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  • FRANCONA
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    FRANCONA
    TERRY FRANCONA / DAN SHAUGHNESSY
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "Eloquent and dazzling," the story of the legendary baseball manager's tenure with the Boston Red Sox ( Philadelphia Daily News). When Terry Francona took over as manager of the Boston Red Sox in 2004, the storied franchise hadn't won a World Series championship in eighty-six years. Led by Francona, the team won two over the course of four years. ...

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  • BLINDING LIGHT
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    BLINDING LIGHT
    PAUL THEROUX
    Slade Steadman's lone opus, published twenty years ago, was Trespassing, a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend Ava in tow, Steadman sets out for Ecuador's jungle in search of a rare hallucinogenic drug and the cure for his writer's block. Amid a gang of thrill-seeking tourists, he finds his dr...

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