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Believing : our thirty-year journey to end gender violence / Anita Hill. cover

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The quick fix kitchen : easy recipes & time-saving tips for a healthier, stress-free life / Tia Mowry ; photography by Matt Armendariz. cover

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Where tomorrows aren't promised : a memoir / Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins. cover

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Bourdain : the definitive oral biography / Laurie Woolever. cover

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No cure for being human : (and other truths I need to hear) / Kate Bowler. cover

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Unbound : my story of liberation and the birth of the Me Too movement / Tarana Burke. cover

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Warrior : Audrey Hepburn cover

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Hero of two worlds : the Marquis de Lafayette in the age of revolution / Mike Duncan. cover

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The girls in the wild fig tree : how I fought to save myself, my sister, and thousands of girls worldwide / Nice Leng'ete with Elizabeth Butler-Witter. cover

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The Mountbattens : the lives and loves of Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten / Andrew Lownie. cover

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This will all be over soon : a memoir / Cecily Strong. cover

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You got anything stronger? : stories / Gabrielle Union ; with Kevin Carr O'Leary. cover

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Unrequited infatuations : odyssey of a rock and roll consigliere : (a cautionary tale) / Stevie Van Zandt ; edited by Ben Greenman. cover

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Vanderbilt : the rise and fall of an American dynasty / Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe. cover

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Beautiful country : a memoir / by Qian Julie Wang. cover

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Good anxiety : harnessing the power of the most misunderstood emotion / Wendy Suzuki, PhD, with Billie Fitzpatrick. cover

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Rationality : what it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters / Steven Pinker. cover

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The comfort book / Matt Haig. cover

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The no-nonsense meditation book : a scientist's guide to the power of meditation / Steven Laureys, MD ; [translated by Henriette Korthals Altes]. cover

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Courage is calling : fortune favors the brave / Ryan Holiday. cover

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You were made for this moment : courage for today and hope for tomorrow / Max Lucado. cover

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System error : where big tech went wrong and how we can reboot / Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy M. Weinstein. cover

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Saving us : a climate scientist's case for hope and healing in a divided world / Katharine Hayhoe. cover

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Demystifying disability : what to know, what to say, and how to be an ally / Emily Ladau. cover

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Race against time : the politics of a darkening America / Keith Boykin. cover

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The Kaepernick effect : taking a knee, changing the world / Dave Zirin. cover

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Brothers on three : a true story of family, resistance, and hope on a reservation in Montana / Abe Streep. cover

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Baby, unplugged : one mother's search for balance, reason, and sanity in the digital age / Sophie Brickman. cover

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The raging 2020s : companies, countries, people--and the fight for our future / Alec Ross. cover

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Shutdown : how COVID shook the world's economy / Adam Tooze. cover

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The antisocial network : the GameStop short squeeze and the ragtag group of amateur traders that brought Wall Street to its knees / Ben Mezrich. cover

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Home, land, security : deradicalization and the journey back from extremism / Carla Power. cover

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They knew : the federal government's fifty-year role in causing the climate crisis / James Gustave Speth. cover

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Slonim Woods 9 : a memoir / Daniel Barban Levin. cover

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Redhanded : an exploration of criminals, cannibals, cults, and what makes a killer tick / Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire. cover

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The Violence Project : how to stop a mass shooting epidemic / Jillian Peterson, PhD, & James Densley, PhD. cover

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My brother the killer : a family story / Alix Sharkey. cover

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Arriving today : from factory to front door--why everything has changed about how and what we buy / Christopher Mims. cover

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The secret history of food : strange but true stories about the origins of everything we eat / Matt Siegel. cover

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Where did the universe come from? and other cosmic questions : our universe, from the quantum to the cosmos / Chris Ferrie, Geraint F. Lewis. cover

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Hurricane lizards and plastic squid : the fraught and fascinating biology of climate change / Thor Hanson. cover

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Fuzz : when nature breaks the law / Mary Roach. cover

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The secret body : how the new science of the human body is changing the way we live / Daniel M. Davis. cover

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Your life depends on it : what you can do to make better choices about your health / Talya Miron-Shatz, PhD. cover

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Women, food, and hormones : a four-week plan to achieve hormonal balance, lose weight, and feel like yourself again / Sara Gottfried, MD. cover

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Voices from the pandemic : Americans tell their stories of crisis, courage and resilience / Eli Saslow. cover

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You bet your life : from blood transfusions to mass vaccination, the long and risky history of medical innovation / Paul A. Offit. cover

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Love your gut : supercharge your digestive health and transform your well-being from the inside out / Dr. Megan Rossi. cover

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Floating in the deep end : how caregivers can see beyond Alzheimer's / Patti Davis. cover

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Traumatized : identify, understand, and cope with PTSD and emotional stress / Kati Morton, LMFT. cover

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The sleeping beauties : and other stories of mystery illness / Suzanne O'Sullivan. cover

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Food without fear : identify, prevent, and treat food allergies, intolerances, and sensitivities / Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, with Kristin Loberg. cover

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Navigating autism : 9 mindsets for helping kids on the spectrum / Temple Grandin, Debra Moore. cover

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The Speckled Beauty : a dog and his people / Rick Bragg. cover

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Cook once dinner fix : quick & exciting ways to transform tonight's dinner into tomorrow's feast / Cassy Joy Garcia ; photography by Kristen Kilpatrick. cover

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Burnt toast and other disasters : a book of heroic hacks, fabulous fixes, and secret sauces / Cal Peternell. cover

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Good Housekeeping the best-ever cookie book : 175 tested-'til-perfect recipes for crispy, chewy & ooey-gooey treats / edited by Tiffany Blackstone, Trish Clasen & Kate Merker ; foreword by Jane Francisco. cover

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Kevin Belton's cookin' Louisiana : flavors from the parishes of the Pelican State / Kevin Belton with Monica Belton ; photographs by Denny Culbert. cover

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Declutter like a mother : a guilt-free, no-stress way to transform your home and your life / Allie Casazza. cover

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Why is my child in charge? : a roadmap to end power struggles, increase cooperation, and find joy in parenting young children / Claire Lerner. cover

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Jungalow : decorate wild / Justina Blakeney ; written with Jason Rosencrantz ; principal photography by Dabito. cover

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Please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes : essays / Phoebe Robinson. cover

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The sisters of Auschwitz : the true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory / Roxane van Iperen ; translated from the Dutch by Joni Zwart. cover

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In the company of heroes : the inspiring stories of Medal of Honor recipients from America's longest wars in Afghanistan and Iraq / by James Kitfield. cover

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Cuba : an American history / Ada Ferrer. cover

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Travels with George : in search of Washington and his legacy / Nathaniel Philbrick. cover

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Wildland : the making of America's fury / Evan Osnos. cover

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Ordinary heroes : a memoir of 9/11 / Joseph Pfeifer, first FDNY Chief at the World Trade Center. cover

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Three girls from Bronzeville : a uniquely American memoir of race, fate, and sisterhood / Dawn Turner. cover

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Make good the promises : reclaiming Reconstruction and its legacies / edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo ; foreword by Eric Foner ; preface by Spencer R. Crew ; contributions by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Mary Elliott, Candra Flanagan, Katherine Franke, Thavolia Glymph [and 3 others]. cover

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Somebody's daughter a memoir / Ashley C. Ford. cover

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My broken language a memoir / Quiara Alegria, Hudes. cover

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The comfort book Matt Haig. cover

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The woman they could not silence one woman, her incredible fight for freedom and the men who tried to make her disappear / Kate Moore. cover

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The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights / by Dorothy Wickenden. cover

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Come fly the world the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am / by Julia Cooke. cover

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The sisters of Auschwitz the true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory / Roxane van Iperen ; translated from the Dutch by Joni Zwart. cover

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The rise and fall of Osama bin Laden Peter L. Bergen. cover

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The man I knew the amazing story of George H.W. Bush's post-presidency / Jean Becker. cover

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Eartha & Kitt a daughter's love story in black and white / Kitt Shapiro and Patricia Weiss Levy. cover

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101 ways to be less stressed simple self-care strategies to boost your mind, mood, and mental health / Dr. Caroline Leaf. cover

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Debt free degree the step-by-step guide to getting your kid through college without student loans / Anthony ONeal ;  Dave Ramsey (foreword). cover

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Frankly, we did win this election: the inside story of how Trump lost / Michael C. Bender. cover

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