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Under a White Sky
Elizabeth Kolbert
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now...
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Uncommon Carriers
John McPhee
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The Circuit
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing “The Circuit is the best sports book I've read in...
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On Freedom
Cass R. Sunstein
From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means—and requires—today In...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste |...
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Gang Leader for a Day
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
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In Search of Lost Books
Giorgio Van Straten
The gripping and elegiac stories of eight lost books, and the mysterious circumstances behind their disappearances. They exist as a...
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores,...
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