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Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot by Vivien Goldman
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Revenge of the She-Punks' sets out to rectify a gender imbalance As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman’s perspective on music...
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Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: In 'Rough Magic,' a young woman competes in the Mongol Derby At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the...
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'No Visible Bruises' upends stereotypes of abuse, sheds light on domestic violence We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call...
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'The Pioneers' dives deep into lives of Northwest Territory settlers Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American...
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Our Man' provides an inside look at the life of Richard Holbrooke Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy...
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Furious Hours' tells the tale of Harper Lee and her unfinished work Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of...
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: In 'Upheaval,' Jared Diamond examines crisis resolution through a personal lens In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of...
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Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Take a breath and dive into 'Exhalation' "THE UNIVERSE BEGAN AS AN ENORMOUS BREATH BEING HELD."In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories,...
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The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years by John Paul Stevens
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Retired Justice John Paul Stevens talks history, his new book and ping-pong When Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the Supreme Court of the...
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