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Wonder Drug : The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
Vanderbes, JenniferRandom House Publishing Group 2023“A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keef...
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Shine Bright : A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Smith, DanyelRandom House Publishing Group 2022American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women gen...
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There Is Nothing For You Here : Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Hill, FionaHarperAudio 2021 Unabridged""This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up."—Timothy Snyder, New York Times be...
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Our Biggest Experiment : An Epic History of the Climate Crisis
Bell, AliceCatapult 2021Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defini...
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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) : An American History
Ferrer, AdaScribner 2021WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweep...
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Cyber Privacy : Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care
Doss, April FalconBenBella Books 2020"Chilling, eye-opening, and timely, Cyber Privacy makes a strong case for the urgent need to reform the laws and policies that protect our personal data. If your reaction to that s...
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The Daughters of Yalta : The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
Katz, Catherine GraceHarperAudio 2020 UnabridgedThe untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful r...
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Caste : The Origins of Our Discontents
Wilkerson, IsabelRandom House Publishing Group 2020#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garn...
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Becoming Kim Jong Un : A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator
Pak, Jung H.Random House Publishing Group 2020A groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un—from his nuclear ambitions to his summits with President Donald J. Trump—by a leading American expert “Shrewdly s...
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Legendary Children : The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life
Fitzgerald, Tom; Marquez, LorenzoPenguin Publishing Group 2020A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo NPR's Best B...
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Edison
Morris, EdmundRandom House Publishing Group 2019NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. N...
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Songs of America : Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
Meacham, Jon; McGraw, TimRandom House Publishing Group 2019NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and music superstar Tim McGraw "Jon...
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Antifa : The Antifascist Handbook
Bray, MarkMelville House 2017The National Bestseller “Focused and persuasive... Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a re...
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How to Survive a Plague : The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
France, DavidKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2016One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Decade A definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the gra...
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The Invention of Russia : The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News
Ostrovsky, ArkadyPenguin Publishing Group 2016WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARDFINALIST FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR “Fast-paced and excellently written…much needed,...
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The House of Twenty Thousand Books
Abramsky, SashaNew York Review Books 2015Named one of Kirkus's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast...
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Dance of the Reptiles : Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns
Hiaasen, CarlKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2014NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A collection of the best Miami Herald columns from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me on burning issues like animal welfare, polluted r...
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Arik : The Life of Ariel Sharon
Landau, DavidKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2014From the former editor in chief of Haaretz, the first in-depth comprehensive biography of Ariel Sharon, the most important Israeli political and military leader of the last forty y...
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Amsterdam : A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Shorto, RussellKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amste...
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The New Digital Age : Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
Schmidt, Eric; Cohen, JaredKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world whe...