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- #MeToo in the corporate world : power, privilege, and the path forward
- 30-second coding : the 50 essential principles that instruct technology, each explained in half a minute
- 50 animals that have been to space
- 7 secrets to investing like Warren Buffett : a simple guide for beginners
- 8 billion and counting : how sex, death, and migration shape our world
- A (very) short history of life on Earth : 4.6 billion years in 12 pithy chapters
- A Peacemaker for warring nations : the founding of the Iroquois League
- A brief history of artificial intelligence : what it is, where we are, and where we are going
- A brief history of equality
- A church called Tov : forming a goodness culture that resists abuses of power and promotes healing
- A deeper sickness : journal of America in the pandemic year
- A gentle answer : our "secret weapon" in an age of us against them
- A history of underwear : with Professor Chicken
- A human history of emotion : how the way we feel built the world we know
- A life on our planet : my witness statement and a vision for the future
- A little book about the big bang
- A molecule away from madness : tales of the hijacked brain
- A most peculiar book : the inherent strangeness of the Bible
- A natural history of the future : what the laws of biology tell us about the destiny of the human species
- A new way to age : the most cutting-edge advances in antiaging
- A place to land : Martin Luther King Jr. and the speech that inspired a nation
- A queer dharma : yoga and meditations for liberation
- A sense of self : memory, the brain, and who we are
- A short history of Christian Zionism : from the Reformation to the twenty-first century
- A short history of Russia : how the world's largest country invented itself, from the pagans to Putin
- A short history of humanity : a new history of old Europe
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A thousand small sanities : the moral adventure of liberalism
- A wolf at the schoolhouse door : the dismantling of public education and the future of school
- A woman's place : inside the fight for a feminist future
- A world beneath the sands : the golden age of Egyptology
- A world history of photography
- A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond
- ADHD 2.0 : new science and essential strategies for thriving with distraction-from childhood through adulthood
- Accused! : the trials of the Scottsboro Boys : lies, prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
- Ace : what asexuality reveals about desire, society, and the meaning of sex
- Acupressure with essential oils : a self-care guide to enhance your health and lift your spirit--includes 24 common conditions
- Aesthetic intelligence : how to boost it and use it in business and beyond
- Africa, amazing Africa
- African Europeans : an untold history
- After campus sexual assault : a guide for parents
- After the apocalypse : America's role in a world transformed
- After whiteness : an education in belonging
- Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
- Against white feminism : notes on disruption
- Ageless : the new science of getting older without getting old
- Aging : growing old in church
- Algonquin
- Alien nation : 36 true tales of immigration
- All are welcome : how to build a real workplace culture of inclusion that delivers results
- All thirteen : the incredible cave rescue of the Thai boys' soccer team
- Allow me to retort : a Black guy's guide to the Constitution
- Already toast : caregiving and burnout in America
- American JewBu : Jews, Buddhists, and religious change
- American Marxism
- American cheese : an indulgent odyssey through the artisan cheese world
- American conservatism : reclaiming an intellectual tradition
- American contagions : epidemics and the law from smallpox to COVID-19
- American founders : how people of African descent established freedom in the new world
- American injustice : inside stories from the underbelly of the criminal justice system
- American kleptocracy : how the U.S. created the world's greatest money laundering scheme in history
- American republics : a continental history of the United States, 1783-1850
- American rule : how a nation conquered the world but failed its people
- Amphibian acrobats
- An abolitionist's handbook : 12 steps to changing yourself and the world
- And then they stopped talking to me : making sense of middle school
- Angry weather : heat waves, floods, storms, and the new science of climate change
- Animal facts by the numbers : a book of infographics
- Animalkind : remarkable discoveries about animals and revolutionary new ways to show them compassion
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Answers in the form of questions : a definitive history and insider's guide to Jeopardy!
- Antisocial : online extremists, techno-utopians, and the hijacking of the American conversation
- Apache
- Art & crime
- Art : a visual history
- Asteroids
- Astro poets : your guides to the zodiac
- Astrology for beginners : learn to read your birth chart
- At home with the beaver : the story of a keystone species
- At the edge of time : exploring the mysteries of our universe's first seconds
- Atlanta Hawks
- Baby, unplugged : one mother's search for balance, reason, and sanity in the digital age
- Banana : the fate of the fruit that changed the world
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Be an inventHer : an everywoman's guide to creating the next big thing
- Be my guest : reflections on food, community, and the meaning of hospitality
- Be the refuge : raising the voices of Asian American Buddhists
- Beasts before us : the untold story of mammal origins and evolution
- Because internet : understanding the new rules of language
- Becoming Elijah : prophet of transformation
- Becoming a firefighter
- Becoming abolitionists : police, protests, and the pursuit of freedom
- Becoming wild : how animal cultures raise families, create beauty, and achieve peace
- Becoming wild : how animal cultures raise families, create beauty, and achieve peace
- Bedeviled : a shadow history of demons in science
- Beehive
- Being Jewish today : confronting the real issues
- Being a human : adventures in forty thousand years of consciousness
- Being frog
- Believing : our thirty-year journey to end gender violence
- Belonging : the key to transforming and maintaining diversity, inclusion and equality at work
- Beneath the surface : a teen's guide to reaching out when you or your friend is in crisis
- Betrayal in Berlin : the true story of the Cold War's most audacious espionage operation
- Better, not perfect : a realist's guide to maximum sustainable goodness
- Between two fires : truth, ambition, and compromise in Putin's Russia
- Beyond : how humankind thinks about heaven
- Biochemistry for dummies
- Bird show
- Birds
- Black & Buddhist : what Buddhism can teach us about race, resilience, transformation & freedom
- Black fatigue : how racism erodes the mind, body, and spirit
- Black fatigue : how racism erodes the mind, body, and spirit
- Black flora : profiles of inspiring Black flower farmers + florists
- Blitzed : drugs in the Third Reich
- Blood on the river : a chronicle of mutiny and freedom on the Wild Coast
- Bloom boom!
- Boardwalk babies
- Body talk : 37 voices explore our radical anatomy
- Border wars : inside Trump's assault on immigration
- Born in Blackness : Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War
- Born of lakes and plains : mixed-descent peoples and the making of the American West
- Born to fly : the first women's air race across America
- Borrowing bunnies : the surprising true tale of fostering rabbits
- Boston Celtics
- Bottle of lies : the inside story of the generic drug boom
- Boys & sex : young men on hookups, love, porn, consent, and navigating the new masculinity
- Boys will be boys
- Brain wash : detox your mind for clearer thinking, deeper relationships, and lasting happiness
- Brainscapes : the warped, wondrous maps written in your brain-and how they guide you
- Brazil : a biography
- Breaking hate : confronting the new culture of extremism
- Breaking the social media prism : how to make our platforms less polarizing
- Breaking up with sugar : a plan to divorce the diets, drop the pounds, and live your best life
- Breath : the new science of a lost art
- Britain at bay : the epic story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
- Broke : hardship and resilience in a city of broken promises
- Brothers in arms : one legendary tank regiment's bloody war from D-day to VE-day
- Buddhish : a guide to the 20 most important Buddhist ideas for the curious and skeptical
- Burn : new research blows the lid off how we really burn calories, lose weight, and stay healthy
- Busy builders
- Butchering deer : a complete guide from field to table
- Buzz, sting, bite : why we need insects
- By the light of burning dreams : the triumphs and tragedies of the second American revolution
- COVID-19 : the pandemic that never should have happened and how to stop the next one
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Can American capitalism survive? : why greed is not good, opportunity is not equal, and fairness won't make us poor
- Can fish count? : what animals reveal about our uniquely mathematical minds
- Can we talk about Israel? : a guide for the curious, confused, and conflicted
- Can't even : how millennials became the burnout generation
- Can't stop won't stop : a hip-hop history
- Cannabis & CBD for health and wellness : an essential guide for using nature's medicine to relieve stress, anxiety, chronic pain, inflammation, and more
- Caring for loved ones with heart disease
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- Celebrating birds : an interactive field guide featuring art from Wingspan
- Change on the run : 44 ways to survive workplace uncertainty
- Charles Darwin's barnacle and David Bowie's spider : how scientific names celebrate adventurers, heroes, and even a few scoundrels
- Chicago Cubs : stars, stats, history, and more!
- Chicago's great fire : the destruction and resurrection of an iconic American city
- Children of ash and elm : a history of the Vikings
- Children under fire : an American crisis
- Christians against Christianity : how right-wing Evangelicals are destroying our nation and our faith
- Classical music
- Clean : the new science of skin
- Cleveland Browns
- Cleveland Cavaliers
- Cleveland Indians : stars, stats, history, and more!
- Climate change
- Co-parenting through separation and divorce : putting your children first
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Comanche
- Commercial real estate investing
- Competition overdose : how free market mythology transformed us from citizen kings to market servants
- Conquistadores : a new history of Spanish discovery and conquest
- Conscious leadership : elevating humanity through business
- Consent (for kids!) : boundaries, respect, and being in charge of you
- Controlling women : what we must do now to save reproductive freedom
- Conversations on love : lovers, strangers, parents, friends, endings, beginnings
- Cooking class global feast! : 44 recipes that celebrate the world's cultures
- Corruptible : who gets power and how it changes us
- Craft : an American history
- Craftfulness : mend yourself by making things
- Creative care : a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care
- Crossing the Rubicon : Caesar's decision and the fate of Rome
- Crusaders : the epic history of the wars for the holy lands
- Cryptography : the key to digital security, how it works, and why it matters
- Cult of glory : the bold and brutal history of the Texas Rangers
- Cultish : the language of fanaticism
- Cyber crisis : protecting your business from real threats in the virtual world
- Dangerous melodies : classical music in America from the Great War through the Cold War
- Dare to speak : defending free speech for all
- Dark towers : Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an epic trail of destruction
- Davos man : how the billionaires devoured the world
- Dear Ally, how do you write a book?
- Dear treefrog
- Death by Shakespeare : snakebites, stabbings and broken hearts
- Death in Mud Lick : a coal country fight against the drug companies that delivered the opioid epidemic
- Death is but a dream : finding hope and meaning at life's end
- Debunk it, fake news edition : how to stay sane in a world of misinformation
- Desert diary : Japanese American children behind barbed wire
- Desert notebooks : a road map for the end of time
- Detroit Pistons
- Detroit Tigers : stars, stats, history, and more!
- Digging for words : José Alberto Gutiérrez and the library he built
- Dirty work : essential jobs and the hidden toll of inequality in America
- Disaster strikes! : the most dangerous space missions of all time
- Disasterology : dispatches from the frontlines of the climate crisis
- Discovering the true self : Kodo Sawaki's art of Zen meditation
- Divine messengers : the untold story of Bhutan's female shamans
- Dog's best friend : the story of an unbreakable bond
- Doom : the politics of catastrophe
- Dreams of El Dorado : a history of the American West
- Drug use for grown-ups : chasing liberty in the land of fear
- Drunk : how we sipped, danced, and stumbled our way to civilization
- Early : an intimate history of premature birth and what it teaches us about being human
- Earthkeeping and character : exploring a Christian ecological virtue ethic
- Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town
- Eating to extinction : the world's rarest foods and why we need to save them
- Eight days at Yalta : how Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin shaped the post-war world
- Eight days in May : the final collapse of the Third Reich
- Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life
- Emerging gender identities : understanding the diverse experiences of today's youth
- Emotional inflammation : discover your triggers and reclaim your equilibrium during anxious times
- Emperors of the deep : sharks--the ocean's most mysterious, most misunderstood, and most important guardians
- Emperors of the deep : sharks--the ocean's most mysterious, most misunderstood, and most important guardians
- Empire of the scalpel : the history of surgery
- Ending Parkinson's disease : a prescription for action
- Equality's call : the story of voting rights in America
- Europe against the Jews : 1880-1945
- Every breath you take : exploring the science of our changing atmosphere
- Everyday trauma : remapping the brain's response to stress, anxiety, and painful memories for a better life
- Evil geniuses : the unmaking of America : a recent history
- Evolution gone wrong : the curious reasons why our bodies work (or don't)
- Exercise is medicine : how physical activity boosts health and slows aging
- Exercise of power : American failures, successes, and a new path forward in the post-Cold War world
- Exercised : why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding
- Experimentation works : the surprising power of business experiments
- Fairy spell : how two girls convinced the world that fairies are real
- Faithful anti-racism : moving past talk to systemic change
- Fake : fake money, fake teachers, fake assets : how lies are making the poor and middle class poorer
- Fakes, forgeries, and frauds
- Fallout : spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown
- Fanocracy : turning fans into customers and customers into fans
- Farmhouse : reimagining the classic American icon
- Fashionopolis : the price of fast fashion--and the future of clothes
- Father figure : how to be a feminist dad
- Feel the fog
- Feminist city : claiming space in a man-made world
- Fentanyl, Inc. : how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic
- Fight : how Gen Z is channeling their fear and passion to save America
- Fight like a mother : how a grassroots movement took on the gun lobby and why women will change the world
- Finding home : the journey of immigrants and refugees
- Finding normal : sex, love, and taboo in our hyperconnected world
- Finding refuge : real-life immigration stories from young people
- Finish the fight! : the brave and revolutionary women who fought for the right to vote
- Fire in the sky : cosmic collisions, killer asteroids, and the race to defend Earth
- First friend : how dogs evolved from wolves to become our best friends
- First light : switching on stars at the dawn of time
- Flipped : how Georgia turned purple and broke the monopoly on Republican power
- Flowers in the gutter : the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, teenagers who resisted the Nazis
- Folkloric American witchcraft and the multicultural experience : a crucible at the crossroads
- Foodwise : a whole systems guide to sustainable and delicious food choices
- Footnotes : the Black artists who rewrote the rules of the Great White Way
- Footprints : in search of future fossils
- Forget the Alamo : the rise and fall of an American myth
- Fossil men : the quest for the oldest skeleton and the origins of humankind
- Four lost cities : a secret history of the urban age
- Freedom : the overthrowing of the slave empires
- Freeing Jesus : rediscovering Jesus as friend, teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence
- From Russia with blood : the Kremlin's ruthless assassination program and Vladimir Putin's secret war on the West
- From Warsaw with love : Polish spies, the CIA, and the forging of an unlikely alliance
- From a whisper to a rallying cry : the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement
- Fulfillment : winning and losing in one-click America
- Future sea : how to rescue and protect the world's oceans
- Future stories : what's next?
- Fuzz : when nature breaks the law
- Gambling with Armageddon : nuclear roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
- Games of deception : the true story of the first U.S. Olympic basketball team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany
- Garden allies : the insects, birds, & other animals that keep your garden beautiful and thriving
- Genesis : the story of how everything began
- Genius makers : the mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the world
- Geniuses at war : Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the dawn of the digital age
- Girl code : gaming, going viral, and getting it done
- Go for the moon : a rocket, a boy, and the first moon landing
- Good economics for hard times
- Good guys : how men can be better allies for women in the workplace
- Good thinking : why flawed logic puts us all at risk and how critical thinking can save the world
- Grace & steel : Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty
- Gridiron : stories from 100 years of the National Football League
- Ground rules : 100 easy lessons for growing a more glorious garden
- Halfway home : race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration
- Hatchet man : how Bill Barr broke the prosecutor's code and corrupted the Justice Department
- Healing : our path from mental illness to mental health
- Hector : a boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- Helgoland : making sense of the quantum revolution
- Hello, I'm here!
- Herbal handbook : 51 profiles in words and art from the Rare Books and Folio Collection of The New York Botanical Garden
- Hiding in plain sight : the invention of Donald Trump and the erosion of America
- High risk : stories of pregnancy, birth, and the unexpected
- Hitler's American gamble : Pearl Harbor and Germany's march to global war
- Holy misogyny : why the sex and gender conflicts in the early church still matter
- Home of the brave : an American history book for kids : 15 immigrants who shaped U.S. history
- Homes in the wild : where baby animals and their parents live
- Houston Astros : stars, stats, history, and more!
- Houston Rockets
- How (not) to save the world : the truth about revealing God's love to the people right next to you
- How a mother should talk about money with her daughter : a step-by-step guide to budgeting, saving, investing, and other important lessons
- How babies sleep : the gentle, science-based method to help your baby sleep through the night
- How civil wars start : and how to stop them
- How the South won the Civil War : oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America
- How the brain works : the facts visually explained
- How the world really works : the science behind how we got here and where we're going
- How to be less stupid about race : on racism, White supremacy, and the racial divide
- How to change everything : the young human's guide to protecting the planet and each other
- How to win friends and influence people in the digital age
- How was that built? : the stories behind awesome structures
- How we got to the moon : the people, technology, and daring feats of science behind humanity's greatest adventure
- How we learn : why brains learn better than any machine ... for now
- Humankind : a hopeful history
- Hummingbird
- Hurricane lizards and plastic squid : the fraught and fascinating biology of climate change
- Hurts so good : the science and culture of pain on purpose
- I ain't marching anymore : dissenters, deserters, and objectors to America's wars
- I alone can fix it : Donald J. Trump's catastrophic final year
- I am farmer : growing an environmental movement in Cameroon
- I am not your enemy : stories to transform a divided world
- I see you : how love opens our eyes to invisible people
- I want an apple : how my body works
- I want to be an engineer
- I've seen the end of you : a neurosurgeon's look at faith, doubt, and the things we think we know
- ICE! : poems about polar life
- If the world were 100 people : a visual guide to our global village
- If you lived during the Plimoth Thanksgiving
- If you want to visit a sea garden
- Imagination : the science of your mind's greatest power
- Imagined life : a speculative scientific journey among the exoplanets in search of intelligent aliens, ice creatures, and supergravity animals
- Immortality, Inc. : renegade science, Silicon Valley billions, and the quest to live forever
- Impact : how rocks from space led to life, culture, and Donkey Kong
- In our prime : how older women are reinventing the road ahead
- In search of mycotopia : citizen science, fungi fanatics, and the untapped potential of mushrooms
- In search of safety : voices of refugees
- In the midst of civilized Europe : the pogroms of 1918-1921 and the onset of the Holocaust
- In the name of God : the role of religion in the modern world, a history of Judeo-Christian and Islamic tolerance
- In whose ruins : power, possession, and the landscapes of American empire
- Inclusify : the power of uniqueness and belonging to build innovative teams
- Inconspicuous consumption : the environmental impact you don't know you have
- Indecent advances : a hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall
- Indelible city : dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong
- Insurrection : rebellion, civil rights, and the paradoxical state of Black citizenship
- Into the clouds : the race to climb the world's most dangerous mountain
- Into the deep : an exploration of our oceans
- Intuitive fasting : the flexible four-week intermittent fasting plan to recharge your metabolism and renew your health
- Invisible Americans : the tragic cost of child poverty
- Invisible women : data bias in a world designed for men
- Invited : the power of hospitality in an age of loneliness
- Islamic empires : the cities that shaped civilization : from Mecca to Dubai
- Island infernos : the US Army's Pacific War odyssey, 1944
- Islands of abandonment : nature rebounding in the post-human landscape
- It could happen here : why America is tipping from hate to the unthinkable--and how we can stop it
- It feels good to be yourself : a book about gender identity
- It's elemental : the hidden chemistry in everything
- Jane against the world : Roe v. Wade and the fight for reproductive rights
- Jesus and John Wayne : how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation
- Journeys toward gender equality in Islam
- Just so : money, materialism, and the ineffable, intelligent universe
- Just work : get sh*t done, fast & fair
- Justice on the brink : the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and twelve months that transformed the Supreme Court
- K-pop : the ultimate fan book : your essential guide to all the hottest K-pop bands
- Keto for life : reset your biological clock in 21 days and optimize your diet for longevity
- Killer style : how fashion has injured, maimed, & murdered through history
- Killer whale vs. great white shark
- Kingdom of Nauvoo : the rise and fall of a religious empire on the American frontier
- Kingdom of characters : the language revolution that made China modern
- Kingdom of frost : how the cryosphere shapes life on Earth
- Kitten Lady's big book of little kittens
- Knock 'em dead resumes : a killer resume gets more job interviews!
- Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power
- Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world
- Launching while female : smashing the system that holds women entrepreneurs back
- Leadershift : the 11 essential changes every leader must embrace
- Leading transformation : how to take charge of your company's future
- Let the Lord sort them : the rise and fall of the death penalty
- Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
- Life is simple : how Occam's razor set science free and shapes the universe
- Lights day and night : the science of how light works
- Little kids first big book of where
- Little libraries, big heroes
- Little platoons : a defense of family in a competitive age
- Living is dying : how to prepare for death, dying, and beyond
- Looking for the good war : American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness
- Los Angeles Dodgers : stars, stats, history, and more!
- Los Angeles Lakers
- Losing Earth : a recent history
- Losing Eden : our fundamental need for the natural world and its ability to heal body and soul
- Losing our minds : the challenge of defining mental illness
- Louder than hell : the definitive oral history of metal
- Love in the time of contagion : a diagnosis
- Magic : a history : from alchemy to witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the present
- Make, think, imagine : engineering the future of civilization
- Making the world over : confronting racism, misogyny, and xenophobia in U.S. history
- Mama dug a little den
- Mama's last hug : animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves
- Managing Generation Z : how to recruit, onboard, develop, and retain the newest generation in the workplace
- Manifestation magic : 21 rituals, spells, and amulets for abundance, prosperity, and wealth
- Mario and the hole in the sky : how a chemist saved our planet
- Marketing mess to brand success : 30 challenges to transform your organization's brand (and your own)
- Mastering the process : from idea to novel
- Masters : major works by leading artists, Book arts
- Maxine Waters : the life, times, and rise of "Auntie Maxine"
- Mayo Clinic on osteoporosis : keep your bones strong and reduce your risk of fractures
- Medieval bodies : life, death and art in the Middle Ages
- Mediocre : the dangerous legacy of white male America
- Meerkats
- Meet me by the fountain : an inside history of the mall
- Men who hate women : from incels to pickup artists : the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all