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In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
by Tom Junod
Lou Junod dominated every room he entered. He worshipped the sun and the sea, his own bronzed body, Frank Sinatra, and beautiful
women. He was a successful traveling handbag salesman who carried himself like a celebrity. He'd return from the road with stories of going
to nightclubs where the stars--Ava Gardner, maybe Liz Taylor--couldn't
keep their eyes off . . . your father. He had countless affairs and didn't
do much to hide them. Lou could be cruel to Fran, his wife of fifty-nine years, but he loved his youngest son. Tom was a skin-and-bones, nervous boy, devoted to his mother, but Lou sought to turn him into a version of himself. When one of Lou's mistresses stood up at his funeral and announced, Can we all . . . just agree . . . that this . . . was a man, Tom set off to learn the facts of his father's life, and why he was the
way he was. The stunning secrets he uncovered--about his father, his father's lovers, and deceptions going back generations--staggered Tom, but in the process allowed him, at last, to become his own man, by his own lights. In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man is an intensely emotional detective story powered by a series of cascading revelations. The book is a triumph of bravura writing; it is a tale of a son reckoning with the consequences of his father's life, and
in the end, the story of the son's redemption.
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American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
by Eric Lichtblau
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice from the
Pulitzer-winning author of the New York Times bestseller
The Nazis Next Door, this is a deeply reported exploration of the
violent resurgence of hatred and white supremacy through
the lens of Orange County, California--ground zero for racial
extremism. It is the story of one brutal murder there that
revealed the deep roots of violent bigotry as a bellwether
for the country. Revealing how Orange County has exported
racial hatred to the rest of the country and the world, American
Reich weaves this tragic tale together with stories from across
the nation. It shows what this haunted place and the colliding
paths of two of its residents reveal about America's fractured
soul and our hope for healing.
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The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism,
and the Lure of Belonging
by Noelle Cook
In this gripping investigation of conspiracy culture, researcher
Noelle Cook explores the ways women are radicalized. The
Conspiracists draws us into the lives of women who stormed the
Capitol and explores what brought them there in the first place.
What does the rise of women's conspiracism mean? And is it
possible to reach across the divide?
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares
in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by Karen Hao
From a brilliant longtime AI Insider with intimate access to the
world of Sam Altman's OpenAI, an eye-opening account of arguably
the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in
real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy.
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Joyful, Anyway
by Kate Bowler
You can't always be happy, but you can be joyful, anyway. We live in a culture convinced that chasing happiness will optimize our bodies, our minds, our relationships, our lives. But in the meantime, bad news usually stays bad: illness, chronic pain, grief, and disappointment don't obey our timelines or vision boards. We are left wondering why, if we're doing everything right, life still feels so hard. Honest and bracingly tender, Joyful, Anyway proves that experiencing joy does not depend
on resolving everything that makes life difficult. Drawing on a decade of living with serious illness and a lifetime studying America's obsession with progress, Kate Bowler shows why people so busy chasing
happiness miss out on actual joy. Joy reminds us that no matter what, life is still worth loving. For every time we ask is this it?, joy will
answer: There is more.
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The Anatomy of Awakening: The 5 Hidden Codes to Activate Self-Healing, Unlock Your Higher Consciousness, and Live Your Divine Destiny
by Sue Morter
Using an approach keyed to the higher states of consciousness within
all of us, The Anatomy of Awakening opens what Dr. Sue describes as a vibrational combination lock, activating deeper levels of awareness and helping us become more masterful in how we live, feel, and respond.
We align with five transformative universal principles or quantum codes to reveal a greater Truth: Access our inner guidance and clarity; Move from overthinking into aligned action; Regulate the nervous system
and change the way we experience life; See beyond limiting
narratives; Integrate light and shadow to empower everyday life. With the precision of a master teacher and the heart of a mystic, Dr. Sue reveals the sacred 'codes' that dissolve the illusion of separation and awaken the God Presence in every breath, cell, and choice.
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Reparenting the Inner Child: The New Science of Our Oldest Wounds and How to Heal Them
by Flatiron Author to Be Revealed Mar 2026
As adults, we often fall into patterns that feel irrational or out of character--shutting down, lashing out, people-pleasing, or self-sabotaging. Beneath those reactions lies our inner child, a younger
part of us still trying to get its needs met the only way it knows how.
We all carry the imprint of our earliest years. Childhood is brief, yet its impact is lifelong. Reparenting the Inner Child offers a clear, compassionate path to self-integration, combining practical exercises, somatic tools, and guided reflections to help us create the safety, love, and boundaries we've always needed. Through her holistic framework that models individual development, Dr. LePera explains how we can cultivate the emotional maturity and regulation to respond calmly
instead of reacting, to embrace desire instead of shame, and to
question the stories we've long believed about who we have to be.
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How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
by Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson is full of contradictions. She's a celebrated author, but battles self-doubt, paralysis, and anxiety. She's an award-winning humorist, but struggles with treatment-resistant depression. The questions people most often ask her are, How do you do it? How do
you keep going even when it feels impossible? How do you keep creating? This book is her answer. It's for anyone who struggles with self-doubt, guilt, motivation, and mental blocks and wants to rekindle their passion for creating. Funny, simple, empathetic, and full of hope,
it will encourage you not to just survive but to find and curate joy in
the face of difficult times.
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A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness
by Michael Pollan
In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives--scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelic--to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life. In Pollan's dazzling exploration
of consciousness, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than
our everyday reality. Eye-opening and mind-expanding, A World
Appears takes us into the laboratories of our own minds, ultimately showing us how we might make better use of the gift of awareness to more meaningfully connect with the world and our deepest selves.
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Traversal
by Maria Popova
In Traversal, Maria Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with the bewilderment of being alive--our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems--through the intertwined lives, loves, and legacies of visionaries both celebrated and sidelined by history, people born into the margins of their time and place who lived
to write the future: Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Fanny Wright, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Marie Tharp, Alfred Wegener, Humphry Davy, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Woven throughout their stories are other threads--the first global scientific collaboration,
the Irish potato famine, the decoding of the insulin molecule, the invention of the bicycle, how nature creates blue--to make the tapestry of meaning more elaborate yet clearer as the book advances,
converging on the ultimate question of what makes life alive and worth living.
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How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough Success
by George Newman
In How Great Ideas Happen, cognitive scientist George Newman
draws on cutting-edge research to show that creativity isn't magic, it's
method. With vivid examples from the arts, science, and
business, Newman shows how creativity often comes from discovering what was already there. By revealing the hidden steps behind breakthrough success, How Great Ideas Happen uncovers a repeatable method that anyone can follow, reframing creativity not as a rare gift, but as a universal capacity waiting to be unlocked through exploration.
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The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans
by Maya Shankar
Life has a way of thwarting our best-laid plans. Out of nowhere, we're confronting the end of a relationship, an unexpected diagnosis, the
loss of a job, or some other twist of fate. In these moments, it can
feel like we're free-falling into the unknown. As a cognitive scientist, Maya Shankar has spent decades studying the human mind. When
an unwanted change in her own life left her reeling, she sought out
people who had navigated major disruptions. In The Other Side of Change, Shankar tells their riveting, singular stories and weaves in scientific insights to illuminate universal lessons hidden within them.
The result is a rich portrait of our complex reactions to change and a deep well of wisdom we can draw from during these experiences.
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Why Do I Keep Doing This?: Unlearn the Habits Keeping You Stuck and Unhappy
by Kati Morton
We can feel like we are too much by just existing in the same
place as someone else, or that we are less deserving of their time
and care. This struggle with asserting ourselves, or taking what we require, can harm our development. We sometimes think the only
way to feel okay and get what we need is to please everyone else
first.
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God's Homecoming: The Forgotten Promise of Future Renewal
by N. T. Wright
Many devout believers have been lured into the classic
misunderstanding that Christianity teaches how we must leave earth
and go somewhere else to be with God. But this outlook dangerously suggests that God created a world he loves only to abandon it.
Nothing could be further from the scriptural truth, N. T. Wright
contends. In God's Homecoming, Wright excavates the forgotten story
of God's original purpose to dwell with us and make his home--and
ours--in this new creation. In his groundbreaking Surprised by Hope, Wright dismantled the going to heaven narrative. In God's
Homecoming, he returns with a panoramic pilgrimage tracing God's homecoming promise from Genesis through Revelation. When we read the Bible as a whole, Wright argues, we do not find a narrative of souls ascending a spiritual ladder to heaven, but of God coming down to
dwell with us.
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Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning with and Reimagining Faith
by Rachel Held Evans
For a generation finding their footing in life after evangelicalism,
Rachel Held Evans was one of the most trusted and beloved voices of our time. Stubborn in her hope, courageous in her questions, and devoted to inclusivity, her online writing was a sanctuary to the
millions who read her words daily. Her death to a sudden illness in
2019 invoked a global outpouring of stories of her legacy and
influence. Today, her words still speak, and now for the first time, fans old and new can experience her most viral and enduring essays in
print--from those tackling patriarchy, white supremacy, and religious nationalism to those offering new interpretations of Scripture, freeing perspectives on doubt, and a better way forward.
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Peace Be with You!: My Words to the Church and to the World
by Pope Leo XIV
Collected in this beautiful edition are the sermons and speeches Pope Leo XIV has delivered since his May 8, 2025, election. These first addresses convey some of Pope Leo XIV's vision for the future: the primacy of God, communion in the Church, and the pursuit of peace.
His countless calls for reconciliation are addressed not only to politics, but to the heart of every person. Peace begins with each of us: from
the way we look at others, listen to others, and speak about others. He shows us that unity is possible, and it begins in our hearts. In his own words, Pope Leo XIV welcomes us all into communion and calls us to
act to protect our shared humanity and our precious home.
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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal,
and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
by Candace Fleming
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more
than 900 of his followers to commit revolutionary suicide by
drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative
nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious
cults in American history. Using riveting first-person accounts,
award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster
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Conversations on Faith
by Martin Scorsese
From the legendary film director Martin Scorsese, a book in which
he and Father Antonio Spadaro discuss the visionary filmmaker's relationship to faith throughout his life. From his Italian-American upbringing as a Catholic in New York to the meditations on religion, belief, and the divine found in his filmography, Martin Scorsese's relationship to his faith has touched every aspect of his life and
work.
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Not Our Problem: The True Story of an Afghan Refugee, an American Promise, and the World Between Them
by Abdulhaq Sodais
In an Afghan village, a boy learns his letters under a mullah's stick and dreams of a life free of the Taliban; in Virginia, a cadet learns to read a map and lead a platoon into combat. Years later, on a wind-scoured ridgeline overlooking Zabul Province, helicopters roaring overhead, Afghan interpreter Abdulhaq Sodais and U.S. Army Lieutenant Spencer Sullivan must learn to trust each other if they hope to survive.
In 2021, when the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, the Taliban
reassert their rule, disappearing, torturing, and killing U.S.
collaborators, including Abdulhaq's fellow interpreters. Yet Abdulhaq's applications for asylum in America are repeatedly denied. In
alternating voices, this story traces the cross-continental distance between a promise and its keeping, interrogating a world in crisis
while celebrating how friendship can outlast the war that created it.
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Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life
by Alex Mayyasi
For their first-ever book, longtime contributor Alex Mayyasi and the
hosts of NPR's Planet Money present brand new stories and insights gathered from more than a decade of reporting that reveal ways AI might help you or replace you, demystify dating markets, and show
how pro sports’ "dumbest" contract holds the secret to building wealth. Taking readers on adventures to a smartphone factory in Patagonia, a raisin cartel in California, and an Indigenous reserve in Canada that might just have a solution for the housing crisis, Planet Money shows how economics shapes our world, and how we can harness key principles to make our own lives a little richer.
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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
by Patrick Radden Keefe
In the early morning of November 29th, 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain's spy agency, captured video of a
young man pacing back and forth on a high balcony of Riverwalk, a luxury tower on the bank of the river Thames. At 2:24 a.m., he jumped into the river. In a quiet London neighborhood several miles away, Rachelle Brettler was worried about her son. Zac had told her that he had gone to stay with a friend, but then he did not come home. Days later, a police car pulled up and two officers relayed the dreadful news: her son was dead. In their unbearable grief, Rachelle and her husband, Matthew, struggled to understand what had happened to Zac. As they would soon discover, however, there was a lot they did not know about their son. Only after his death did they learn that he had adopted a fictitious alter-ego: Zac Ismailov, son of a Russian oligarch and heir to
a great fortune. Under this guise, Zac had become entangled with a slippery London businessman named Akbar Shamji, and a murderous gangster known as Indian Dave. As the Brettlers set about investigating their son's death, they were pulled into a different and more dangerous London than the one they'd always known, and came to believe that something much more nefarious than a suicide had claimed Zac's life. But to their immense frustration, Scotland Yard seemed unable--or unwilling--to bring the perpetrators to justice.
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Nuclear Weapons: An International History
by David Holloway
The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally changed the world
order. Its power was harnessed, nuclear bombs invented, and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed. In recurring international crises and calls for arms control, the threat of nuclear war has hung
over humanity ever since. David Holloway traces how these weapons shaped the last century, from the US-Soviet arms race to the rivalry between India and Pakistan. Deterrence and intimidation, alliances and war plans, international treaties and organizations have all played their role. This is a global history of these fearsome weapons and our attempts to deal with the consequences of their existence--a story at once fascinating and repellent, of a very dangerous period in our
history.
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When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
by Suzanne Simard
Raised in a family of loggers committed to sensible forest stewardship, trailblazing ecologist Suzanne Simard has watched as timber
companies leave forests at higher risk for wildfires, water crises, and plant and animal extinction. But her research has the potential to chart
a new course. The forest, she reveals, is a symphony of finely honed cycles of regeneration--from mushrooms breaking down logs to dying elder trees passing their genetic knowledge to younger ones--that hold the key to protecting our forests. When the Forest Breathes is a vital reminder of all the natural world has to teach us about adaptability, resilience, and community.
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The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds
by James H. McCommons
The Feather Wars is an entertaining and expansive work of American history, an incredible story about how disparate characters--progressive politicians, free-thinking society belles, nature writers and artists, bird-loving U.S. presidents, gunmakers, business titans, and brave game wardens--came together to save hundreds of species of birds. Heroes, martyrs, villains, and conflicted do-gooders--the early bird conservation movement had them all. Together they transformed how Americans thought and cared about birds, forever altering the American
landscape.
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Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America
by Andrew McCarthy
Who Needs Friends charts McCarthy's journey over nearly ten thousand miles behind the wheel, following him on often-unexpected travels through Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, the Chihuahuan Desert, the Rocky Mountains with one driving purpose: to reconnect. Along the way he talks to countless men about their male friendships, from cowboys and blues musicians to preachers and rootless teens. What began as a simple desire to catch up with a few friends turned into a deep exploration of the challenges and rewards that men experience in forming bonds with each other. In McCarthy's own words, It turns out that guys have a difficult time with friendship. But that's not the way it needs to be.
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Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
by Ibram X. Kendi
Recall the words chanted in Charlottesville, Virginia: You will not
replace us! Recall the string of mass shooters across the globe--in
Oslo, Christchurch, Buffalo, El Paso, and Pittsburgh--who claimed their crimes were a defense against White genocide. Recall business and media figures cultivating anxiety and furor over demographic change. These incidents only scratch the surface: Popular and ruling politicians
in every region of the world have expressed some version of great replacement theory, eroding democratic norms in the name of
preventing demographic change. The term was coined in 2011 by a French novelist who argued that Black and Brown immigrants were invading Europe, brought by shadowy elites to replace the White population. From there, politicians and theorists in the United States
and elsewhere repackaged it as a story of globalists welcoming
migrant criminals and promoting diversity to take away the jobs, cultures, electoral power, and very lives of White people. In Chain of Ideas, Ibram X. Kendi offers an unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian age--and how we can free ourselves from it.
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The Money Habit: The Worry-Free Way to Financial Independence
by Mike Michalowicz
In the follow-up to his international bestseller Profit First, entrepreneur and money expert Mike Michalowicz reveals how to achieve financial freedom by working with your natural habits rather than trying to
change them, and offers a radically simple alternative, guiding you to leverage your existing habits for financial success.
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To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right
by Christopher Mathias
A searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist
and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascist groups working to expose and stop these hateful factions. Demonized as extremist by conservatives and liberals alike, antifa became a bogeyman during Donald Trump's first term. But few Americans understood the dangerous work antifa was doing to disrupt and unmask a new generation of white supremacists or listened when antifa sounded the alarm about these white supremacists taking positions of power. Now this underground network of militant anti-fascists is determined to stop the rising tide of fascism in America. No matter the cost. In the tradition of in-the-room investigative classics
such as The Smartest Guys in the Room and Bad Blood, To Catch a Fascist follows different factions of antifascists as they work to unmask hateful extremists before they commit devastating acts of violence.
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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
by Belle Burden
In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at
their house on Martha's Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together--building fires in the late afternoons, drinking
whisky sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of twenty years announced that he was
leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. In Strangers, Burden revisits her marriage,
searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought
he was. As she examines her relationship through a new lens, she reckons with her own family history and the lessons she intuited about how a woman is expected to behave in the face of betrayal. Through
all of it, she is transformed. The discreet, compliant woman she once was--someone nicknamed Belle the Good--gives way to someone
braver, someone determined to use her voice.
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The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
by Rebecca Solnit
In this sequel to her bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it
is an inevitability. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.
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In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America's Caregiving Crisis
by Laura Mauldin
An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spouses and
intimate partners. These are heartbreaking stories of love under strain
-- relationships full of extraordinary intimacy and resilience, but pushed to the edge by an ableist society that would rather look away from its most vulnerable citizens. Urgent, unflinching, and full of grace, In Sickness and In Health is a rallying cry for a radical reimagining of
care--not as an individual act of devotion, but as a collective responsibility. In connecting the care crisis to the politics of love and intimacy, Mauldin reframes the conversation, urging us to build a world where no one is left to do the work of love alone.
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American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
by Jon Meacham
In a polarized era, history can become a subject of political contention. Many see America as perfect; many others argue that the national experiment is fundamentally flawed. The truth, Meacham shows, likely lies between these extremes. America has had shining hours, and also dark ones. In American Struggle, Jon Meacham illuminates the nation's complicated past. This rich and diverse collection covers a wide
spectrum of history, from 1619 to the twenty-first century, with primary-source documents that take us back to critical moments in which Americans fought over the meaning and the direction of the national experiment.
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Mafia: A Global History
by Ryan Gingeras
In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras takes readers on a fascinating journey into the shadowy world of organized crime and its far-reaching impact on contemporary society. From backroom deals to global power plays, this compelling narrative spans two centuries, unraveling the complex ties between crime syndicates and law enforcement--and how these relationships have reshaped both sides in unexpected ways. Gingeras delivers a masterful blend of storytelling and meticulous analysis that will leave you questioning just how much of the world around us is shaped by those operating in the shadows.
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The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
by Nicolas Niarchos
The Elements of Power tells the story of the war for the global supply
of battery metals--essential for the decarbonization of our economies--and the terrible, bloody human cost of this badly misunderstood
industry. Swaths of the war-torn Congo lack basic infrastructure, and, after many decades of colonial occupation, its people are officially
among the poorest in the world. But hidden beneath the soil are vast quantities of cobalt, lithium, copper, tin, tantalum, tungsten, and other treasures. Recently, this veritable periodic table of resources has
become extremely valuable because these metals are essential for the global energy transition--the plan for wealthy nations to wean themselves off fossil fuels by shifting to sustainable forms of energy, such as solar and wind. Nicolas Niarchos reveals how the scramble to control these metals and their production is overturning the world
order, just as the global race to drill for oil shaped the twentieth
century.
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Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood
by William J. Mann
The brutal murder of Elizabeth Short--better known as the Black Dahlia--in 1947 has been in the public consciousness for nearly eighty years, yet no serious study of the crime has ever been published. Short has been mischaracterized as a wayward sex worker or vagabond, and--like the seductive femme fatales of film noir--responsible for and perhaps deserving of her fate. William J. Mann, however, is interested in the truth. His extensive research reveals her as a young woman with curiosity and drive, who leveraged what little agency postwar society gave her to explore the world, defying draconian postwar gender expectations to settle down, marry, and have children. Mann deftly sifts through the sensationalized journalism, preconceived notions, myths, and misunderstandings surrounding the case to uncover the truth about Elizabeth Short like no book before.
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Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
by Heather Ann Thompson
On December 22, 1984, in a graffiti-covered New York City subway car, passengers looked on in horror as a white loner named Bernhard Goetz shot four Black teens at point-blank range. The man the tabloid media dubbed the Death Wish Vigilante would become a celebrity and a hero
to countless ordinary Americans who had been frustrated with the economic fallout of the Reagan 80s. Overnight, Goetz's young victims would become villains. Out of this dramatic moment would emerge an angry nation, in which Rupert Murdoch's New York Post and later Fox News Network stoked the fear and the fury of a stunning number of Americans. Heather Ann Thompson narrates the Bernie Goetz subway shootings and their decades-long reverberations, while deftly covering the lives of the boys whom too many decided didn't matter.
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Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation
by Elliot Williams
On a dirty New York subway car on December 22, 1984, Bernhard
Goetz shot Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, and James
Ramseur, four teenagers from the Bronx, at point blank range.
Goetz claimed they were going to mug him; the teens claim that one
of them had simply asked for five dollars. Crime was at an all-time
high. So was racial tension. Was Goetz, who was white, a hero who finally fought back? Or a bigot whose itchy trigger finger seriously wounded three unarmed black kids and condemned a fourth to irreversible brain damage? A shocking account of a pivotal moment in our history, Five Bullets demonstrates why, in order to understand today's debates about race, crime, safety, and the media, it's
imperative to reflect on what went down in the subway four decades ago. As Williams's powerful narrative reveals, it was not just Goetz on trial, but the conscience of a nation.
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Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention
by Clara E. Mattei
In this radical rethinking of economics, Clara Mattei argues that
enduring problems such as poverty, unemployment, and inflation are
not bugs in the economy but core features. They are justified with pseudoscientific models, fabrications built to support a capitalist economy that unfairly rewards people with the most resources. In this revelatory manifesto, Mattei sets out a revolutionary vision that may
one day allow us to achieve true economic freedom and finally escape from capitalism.
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2026: For Preparing Your 2025 Tax Return
by J K Lasser Institute
J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2026: For Preparing Your 2025 Tax Return delivers practical and hands-on guidance for everyday people preparing to file their taxes for the 2025 calendar year. You'll find timely and up-to-date info about the latest changes to the US tax code, as well as worksheets and forms you can use to make filing your taxes easier.
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Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic
by Kenneth R. Rosen
A gripping blend of travelogue and frontline reporting that reveals
how climate change, military ambition, and economic opportunity
are transforming the Arctic into the epicenter of a new cold war,
where a struggle for dominance between the planet's great powers heralds the next global conflict. Drawing on hundreds of interviews
and three years of reporting from the frontlines of climate change
and great power competition, Rosen's deeply researched and
personal accounts capture the diverse landscapes, people, and
conflicted interests that define this complex northern region. The
result is both an elegy for a vanishing landscape and an urgent
warning about how the race for Arctic dominance could spark the
next global conflict.
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Quick & Legal Will Book
by Denis Clifford
Quick & Legal Will Book is the easiest way to make your own will
using a book. Use it to create a simple will that distributes your
property, names your executor, and sets up guardianships for your children. If you die without an estate plan, state law--rather than
you--will determine what happens to your property, which is an
outcome few people want.
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Personal Finance in Plain English: Definitions. Examples. Uses.
by Michele Cagan
Managing your money is not an easy job, and it's made even
more complicated by the specific terminology used in personal
finance. Reading through a loan agreement, credit card terms and conditions, or a stock market report can leave even the most
financially responsible people wondering, 'What exactly does this
mean?' Now, this book has the answers.
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The Land Trap: A New History of the
World's Oldest Asset
by Mike Bird
How the world's oldest asset secretly shapes our modern economy
In The Land Trap, Mike Bird, Wall Street editor at The Economist,
reveals how this ancient asset still exerts outsize influence over
the modern world. From the speculative land grabs of colonial
America to China's real estate crisis today, Bird shows how
fortunes are built--and destroyed--on the bedrock of land.
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Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia: Volume 2 of the Borgata Trilogy
by Louis Ferrante
This epic three-volume history of the mafia continues with Borgata:
Clash of Titans, covering 1960 to 1985, as the mob comes into
conflict with the American political elite--and confronts internal
wars that will shake the organization to its foundations. The first
serious external threat to the mafia's existence in America comes
from U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who repeatedly
expresses his desire to eradicate organized crime in America.
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The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
by David McWilliams
In this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David
McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money,
from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley.
The story of humanity is inextricable from that of money. No
innovation has defined our own evolution so thoroughly and
changed the direction of our planet's history so dramatically.
And yet despite money's primacy, most of us don't truly
understand it.
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Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department
by Carol Leonnig
Trump's war with the Justice Department will mark a turning
point from which it will be hard to recover these injustices. The
jaw-dropping account of partisans and enablers undoing democracy, heroes still battling to preserve a nation governed by laws, and a
call to action for those who believe in liberty and justice for all.
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Smartphone Nation: Building Digital Boundaries When Offline Isn't an Option
by Kaitlyn Regehr
Essential reading anyone who knows there's more to life than
staring at a screen--or who wants to raise children who believe
that, too--Smartphone Nation shows how to: - Navigate the
attention economy, which prioritizes engagement at all costs.
Improve your digital nutrition for better mental health-
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Retribution: Donald Trump and the
Campaign That Changed America
by Jonathan Karl
The must-read new book from Jonathan Karl, the author of
New York Times bestsellers Tired of Winning, and Front Row at
the Trump Show. In Retribution, Jonathan Karl's unparalleled
access brings us behind closed doors deep inside the White
House and presidential campaigns, revealing the extraordinary
moments that ended one man's presidency and brought another
back to power.
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Notes on Being a Man
by Scott Galloway
Bestselling author, NYU professor, and cohost of the Pivot podcast
Scott Galloway offers a path forward for men and parents of boys.
Boys and men are in crisis. Rarely has a cohort fallen further and
faster than young men living in Western democracies. Boys are
less likely to graduate from high school or college than girls. One in seven men reports having no friends, and men account for three of
every four deaths of despair in America.
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The Complete IEP Guide: How to
Advocate for Your Special Ed Child
by Lawrence M. Siegel
Get the educational services and support your child deserves
Federal law guarantees every child a free appropriate education,
and the goal of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) is to
assure that every child with special needs receives what the law promises.
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