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American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
BUY Amazon | IndieBound What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is...
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The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Author Louise Erdrich on ‘The Night Watchman’ Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked...
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Brave Enough by Jessie Diggins, Todd Smith
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Skier Jessie Diggins on next week’s World Cup race – and her new memoir Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on...
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Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Too busy? Make time to 'do nothing' We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? Despite our...
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My Name Is Tani . . . and I Believe in Miracles: The Amazing True Story of One Boy's Journey from Refugee to Chess Champion by Tanitoluwa Adewumi,
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: This young chess champion is 'not scared of anything on that board' Every few years the story of an extraordinary child captures...
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: A history book that isn't: Finding a way to teach racism to a new generation The National Book Award winning history of...
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Later: My Life at the Edge of the World by Paul Lisicky
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Later' takes us to 1990s Provincetown, as hope for AIDS treatment rises A stunning portrait of community, identity, and sexuality by the...
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Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Electoral college 'not carved in stone:' Author advocates rethinking how we vote The framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have...
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case, Angus Deaton
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Deaths Of Despair' examines the steady erosion of U.S. working-class life From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a...
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