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  • Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition by Shetterly, Margot Lee
    Margot Lee Shetterly

    Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

    The uplifting, amazing true story--a New York Times bestseller This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly's acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It's the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space...
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  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Diamond, Jared
    Jared Diamond

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist theories of...
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  • A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Egan, Timothy
    Timothy Egan

    A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction - An NPR Best Book of the Year - A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year - A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year - A New York...
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  • Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Kendall, Mikki
    Mikki Kendall

    Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women." --Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How...
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  • Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Stanley, Jason
    Jason Stanley

    Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

    From Yale professor and bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the authoritarian right's attacks to undo a century of work to advance social justice action on race, gender, sexuality, and class. Combining historical research with an in-depth analysis of our...
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  • Nuclear War: A Scenario by Jacobsen, Annie
    Annie Jacobsen

    Nuclear War: A Scenario

    The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller "In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail...Terrifying."--Wall Street Journal There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike...
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  • Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Ambrose, Stephen E.
    Stephen E. Ambrose

    Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

    Stephen E. Ambrose's classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical momenAuthor: Stephen E. AmbroseISBN-10: 1501179403ISBN-13: 9781501179402Publisher:...
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  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Goodwin, Doris Kearns
    Doris Kearns Goodwin

    An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

    #1 New York Times Bestseller The perfect gift for Mother's Day and Father's Day! An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you...
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  • Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Kennedy, Jonathan
    Jonathan Kennedy

    Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "gripping" (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs "Superbly written . . . Kennedy seamlessly weaves together scientific...
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  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by X, Malcolm
    Malcolm X

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the...
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  • The Secret History of the World by Booth, Mark
    Mark Booth

    The Secret History of the World

    A New York Times bestseller, Mark Booth's The Secret History of the World is "an entire library's worth of scholarship [in] a single volume" (San Francisco Gate). "Authentically mind-boggling." --Kirkus Reviews They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history--or...
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  • The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Thompson, Wright
    Wright Thompson

    The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

    "The Barn is the most brutal, layered and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read...Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more important, than this." --Kiese Laymon,...
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  • The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl
    Karl Marx

    The Communist Manifesto

    A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration....
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  • The Fifteen: Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America by Geroux, William
    William Geroux

    The Fifteen: Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America

    The revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown. The American government was faced with...
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  • The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by Grann, David
    David Grann

    The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction "with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller"(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of...
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  • The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War by Donohue, John Chick
    John Chick Donohue

    The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY PETER FARRELLY, STARRING ZAC EFRON AND RUSSELL CROWE!Instant New York Times BestsellerInstant USA Today Bestseller"Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you...
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  • Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Philip, Leila
    Leila Philip

    Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver--the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science...
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  • The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Blackhawk, Ned
    Ned Blackhawk

    The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

    National Bestseller Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction - Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History - Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction Named a best book of 2023 by New Yorker, Esquire, Barnes &...
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  • On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Snyder, Timothy
    Timothy Snyder

    On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug "Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable lessons of...
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  • American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Bird, Kai
    Kai Bird

    American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer

    THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD(R)-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER - "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the...
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  • Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Larson, Erik
    Erik Larson

    Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania "Both terrifying and enthralling."--Entertainment Weekly"Thrilling, dramatic and powerful."--NPR"Thoroughly engrossing."--George R.R. Martin On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its...
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  • Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World

    In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman...
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  • Maus I & II Paperback Box Set by Spiegelman, Art
    Art Spiegelman

    Maus I & II Paperback Box Set

    The bestselling graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker) - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - One of Variety's "Banned and Challenged Books Everyone...
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  • A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Purnell, Sonia
    Sonia Purnell

    A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London Winner...
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  • The Art of War by Tzu, Sun
    Sun Tzu

    The Art of War

    Discover Sun Tzŭ's The Art of War with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning Art of War special edition features sprayed edges, color end pages, a built-in ribbon bookmark, and embossed foil cover. The beautiful design...
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  • The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Chang, Iris
    Iris Chang

    The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

    The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal--and forgotten--massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II, "piecing together the abundant eyewitness reports into an undeniable tapestry of horror". (Adam Hochschild, Salon) In...
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  • How Democracies Die by Levitsky, Steven
    Steven Levitsky

    How Democracies Die

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE - SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post...
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  • The U.S. Constitution: Explained--Clause by Clause--For Every American Today by Raphael, Ray
    Ray Raphael

    The U.S. Constitution: Explained--Clause by Clause--For Every American Today

    Politicians come and go, but the Constitution stands as the supreme law of the land. Setting forth the workings of our democracy, it is the bedrock document from which we derive our policies on topics as diverse and galvanizing as immigration, gun ownership, voting...
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  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by Shirer, William L.
    William L. Shirer

    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

    The fiftieth anniversary edition of the National Book Award-winning bestseller that is the definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II. This special edition now features a new introduction by Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler...
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  • Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Higginbotham, Adam
    Adam Higginbotham

    Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research--a riveting history that reads like a thriller. On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds...
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  • The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice by Fairweather, Jack
    Jack Fairweather

    The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

    From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer, the powerful true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past. At...
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  • A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Standage, Tom
    Tom Standage

    A History of the World in 6 Glasses

    New York Times Bestseller * The inspiration for the TV series starring Dan Aykroyd "There aren't many books this entertaining that also provide a cogent crash course in ancient, classical and modern history." --Los Angeles Times Beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola: In...
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  • 1776 by McCullough, David
    David McCullough

    1776

    America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake...
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  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Wilkerson, Isabel
    Isabel Wilkerson

    The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize-winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the...
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  • Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America by Risen, Clay
    Clay Risen

    Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America

    As relevant as it is comprehensive, Red Scare tells the story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare--based in part on newly declassified sources--by an award-winning writer of history and New York Times reporter. The film Oppenheimer has awakened interest in this vital period of...
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  • UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There by Graff, Garrett M.
    Garrett M. Graff

    UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There

    "One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded." --The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history) comes...
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  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Hillenbrand, Laura
    Laura Hillenbrand

    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption. "Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic."--The Wall Street Journal Hailed as...
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  • Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Beinart, Peter
    Peter Beinart

    Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

    A bold, urgent appeal from the acclaimed columnist and political commentator, addressing one of the most important issues of our time In Peter Beinart's view, one story has long dominated Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases...
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  • How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Smith, Clint
    Clint Smith

    How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

    This "important and timely" (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America--and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on...
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  • Between the World and Me by Coates, Ta-Nehisi
    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Between the World and Me

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH" - NOW...
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  • The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Spiegelman, Art
    Art Spiegelman

    The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale

    The definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker) - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - One of Variety's "Banned and...
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  • The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England by Jones, Dan
    Dan Jones

    The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

    The New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain's greatest and worst dynasty--"a real-life Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal) The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it...
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  • Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust by Adlington, Lucy
    Lucy Adlington

    Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana...
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  • Thunderstruck by Larson, Erik
    Erik Larson

    Thunderstruck

    A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush."In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect...
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  • Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Woo, Ilyon
    Ilyon Woo

    Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

    One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times Bestseller Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery...
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  • Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Price, Neil
    Neil Price

    Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

    A "thrilling" (Wall Street Journal) history of the Vikings by a pre-eminent scholar The Viking Age saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe....
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  • The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back by Moore, Kate
    Kate Moore

    The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back

    From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women's rights and exposed injustices that still...
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  • The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem by Schiff, Stacy
    Stacy Schiff

    The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later,...
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  • The Fire Next Time by Baldwin, James
    James Baldwin

    The Fire Next Time

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s--and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. - "The finest essay I've ever read." --Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James...
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  • Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Harriot, Michael
    Michael Harriot

    Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 From acclaimed columnist and political commentator...
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