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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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A Fever in the Heartland : The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Egan, TimothyPenguin Publishing Group 2023NEW 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 B...
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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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The Kindred
Dow, AlechiaInkyard Press 2022"Utterly swoony...an endearing reminder that true love can change the world" —J. Elle, New York Times bestselling author of Wings of EbonyTo save a galactic kingdom from revolution...
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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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Unsettled : What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
Koonin, Steven E.BenBella Books 2021"Unsettled is a remarkable book—probably the best book on climate change for the intelligent layperson—that achieves the feat of conveying complex information clearly and in depth....
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Meant to Be : A Novel
Deveraux, JudeMIRA Books 2021"An entertaining page-turner." —Kirkus Reviews on Met Her Match An inspiring family saga about two headstrong sisters who long to forge their own paths.It's 1972 and times are chan...
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The Age of Wood : Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
Ennos, RolandScribner 2020A "smart and surprising" (Booklist) "expansive history" (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—including human evolution and...
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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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The Man Who Ran Washington : The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
Baker, Peter; Glasser, SusanKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2020BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • The Washington Post • Fortune • Bloomberg From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of leg...
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Begin Again : James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Glaude, Eddie S.Crown 2020NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure...
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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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Ingredients : The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us
Zaidan, GeorgePenguin Publishing Group 2020"In Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us, George Zaidan delivers an enthusiastic introduction to nutritional epidemiology... Using simple illustrations...
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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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A Very Stable Genius : Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
Rucker, Philip; Leonnig, CarolPenguin Publishing Group 2020The instant #1 bestseller. “This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date." - Dwight Garner, Th...
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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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Yale Needs Women : How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
Gardiner Perkins, AnneSourcebooks 2019WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE"Perkins makes the story of these early and unwitting f...
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The Mosquito : A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Winegard, Timothy C.Penguin Publishing Group 2019**The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the RBC Taylor Award “Hugely impressive, a major work.”—...