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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
- 37 words : Title IX and fifty years of fighting sex discrimination
- 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 brief history of time
- A church called Tov : forming a goodness culture that resists abuses of power and promotes healing
- A collective bargain : unions, organizing, and the fight for democracy
- 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 delusions : the glass king, a substitute husband and a walking corpse
- A history of underwear : with Professor Chicken
- A house built by slaves : African American visitors to the Lincoln White House
- A human history of emotion : how the way we feel built the world we know
- A is for Asian American : an Asian Pacific Islander Desi American alphabet
- A life on our planet : my witness statement and a vision for the future
- A little book about the big bang
- A little devil in America : notes in praise of Black performance
- 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 queer dharma : yoga and meditations for liberation
- A raven named Grip : how a bird inspired two famous writers, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe
- A river's gifts : the mighty Elwha River reborn
- 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
- Abandoned : America's lost youth and the crisis of disconnection
- Abuelita faith : what women on the margins teach us about wisdom, persistence, and strength
- 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
- Aesop's animals : the science behind the fables
- 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 the fall : being American in the world we've made
- After whiteness : an education in belonging
- Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
- Aftershocks : pandemic politics and the end of the old international order
- 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 our families : disability lineage and the future of kinship
- All the white friends I couldn't keep : hope—and hard pills to swallow—about fighting for black lives
- 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
- America on fire : the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s
- American JewBu : Jews, Buddhists, and religious change
- 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
- American women's suffrage : voices from the long struggle for the vote, 1776-1965
- An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States
- An abolitionist's handbook : 12 steps to changing yourself and the world
- An answer for everything : 200 infographics to explain the world
- Anatomy of a witch : a map to the magical body
- And then they stopped talking to me : making sense of middle school
- Anglerfish : the seadevil of the deep
- 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!
- Anti racist ally : an introduction to action & activism
- Antisocial : online extremists, techno-utopians, and the hijacking of the American conversation
- Apache
- Art & crime
- Art : a visual history
- Art history for dummies
- Asian American histories of the United States
- Assad or we burn the country : how one family's lust for power destroyed Syria
- 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
- Audience of one : Donald Trump, television, and the fracturing of America
- Baby, unplugged : one mother's search for balance, reason, and sanity in the digital age
- Ball of collusion : the plot to rig an election and destroy a presidency
- 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
- Be who you want : unlocking the science of personality change
- Beasts before us : the untold story of mammal origins and evolution
- Beaverland : how one weird rodent made America
- Because internet : understanding the new rules of language
- Becoming Elijah : prophet of transformation
- Becoming a firefighter
- Becoming a veterinarian
- Becoming abolitionists : police, protests, and the pursuit of freedom
- Becoming brave : finding the courage to pursue racial justice now
- 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 ape and human : an anthropologist on the trail of a hidden hominoid
- Between two fires : truth, ambition, and compromise in Putin's Russia
- Beyond : how humankind thinks about heaven
- Big book of small home plans
- Biochemistry
- Bird show
- Birds
- Birds of all feathers : doing diversity and inclusion right
- 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
- Black in White space : the enduring impact of color in everyday life
- Blackpink : queens of K-pop
- Blitzed : drugs in the Third Reich
- Blood and iron : the rise and fall of the German Empire, 1871-1918
- Blood and ruins : the last imperial war, 1931-1945
- Blood gun money : how America arms gangs and cartels
- Blood on the river : a chronicle of mutiny and freedom on the Wild Coast
- Bloom boom!
- Blowout : corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on Earth
- Blue : a history of the color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky
- Boardwalk babies
- Bobcat prowling
- Bodies on the line : at the front lines of the fight to protect abortion in America
- Body talk : 37 voices explore our radical anatomy
- Bones : inside and out
- 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
- Borrowing life : how scientists, surgeons, and a war hero made the first successful organ transplant a reality
- 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
- Breathing lessons : a doctor's guide to lung health
- Bringing up race : how to raise a kind child in a prejudiced world
- 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
- Carving out a humanity : race, rights, and redemption
- 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
- City witchery : accessible rituals, practices & prompts for conjuring and creating in a magical metropolis
- Classical music
- Clean : the new science of skin
- Clearer, closer, better : how successful people see the world
- Cleveland Browns
- Cleveland Cavaliers
- Climate change
- Co-parenting through separation and divorce : putting your children first
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Comanche
- Come and hear : what I saw in my seven-and-a-half-year journey through the Talmud
- 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
- Cooking class global feast! : 44 recipes that celebrate the world's cultures
- Corruptible : who gets power and how it changes us
- Counting : how we use numbers to decide what matters
- Craft : an American history
- Craftfulness : mend yourself by making things
- Creative Interventions toolkit : a practical guide to stop interpersonal violence
- 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 and magical places : the neuroscience of navigation
- 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
- Decoding your cat : the ultimate experts explain common cat behaviors and reveal how to prevent or change unwanted ones
- Decolonizing Christianity : becoming badass believers
- Democracy's data : the hidden stories in the U.S. census and how to read them
- Demystifying Shariah : what it is, how it works, and why it's not taking over our country
- Depression, anxiety, and other things we don't want to talk about
- 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!
- Different baby, different story : pregnancy and parenting after loss
- Digging for words : José Alberto Gutiérrez and the library he built
- Dinosaurs
- Dirty work : essential jobs and the hidden toll of inequality in America
- 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
- Distracted : why students can't focus and what you can do about it
- Diversity and inclusion in libraries : a call to action and strategies for success
- 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
- Dress codes : how the laws of fashion made history
- Drug use for grown-ups : chasing liberty in the land of fear
- Drunk : how we sipped, danced, and stumbled our way to civilization
- Duped : why innocent people confess and why we believe their confessions
- Dvořák's prophecy : and the vexed fate of Black classical music
- Eagle down : the last special forces fighting the forever war
- 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 : how feelings shape our thinking
- 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
- Endless forms : the secret world of wasps
- Entangled life : how fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures
- 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
- Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die : bioethics and the transformation of health care in America
- 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
- Exploring American girlhood through 50 historic treasures
- Extra bold : a feminist inclusive anti-racist nonbinary field guide for graphic designers
- Extraterrestrial : the first sign of intelligent life beyond Earth
- Facing the mountain : a true story of Japanese American heroes in World War II
- Facing the mountain : a true story of Japanese American heroes in World War II
- 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
- Fear of black consciousness
- Fear of missing out : practical decision-making in a world of overwhelming choice
- Fears of a setting sun : the disillusionment of America's Founders
- 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
- Fight like hell : the untold history of American labor
- 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
- 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
- Freedom! : the story of the Black Panther Party
- Freeing Jesus : rediscovering Jesus as friend, teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence
- Fresh air, clean water : our right to a healthy environment
- 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
- Full spectrum : how the science of color made us modern
- Future minds : the rise of intelligence, from the big bang to the end of the universe
- Future sea : how to rescue and protect the world's oceans
- Future stories : what's next?
- Future tense : why anxiety is good for you (even though it feels bad)
- 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
- Giving thanks : how Thanksgiving became a national holiday
- 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
- Goodbye, things : the new Japanese minimalism
- Grace & steel : Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty