Young Jane Young
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Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida, makes the life-changing mistake of...
Legion
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Brandon Sanderson is one of the most significant fantasists to enter the field in a good many years....
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration
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The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations...
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That’s the Way it Crumbles
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Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest...
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918
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With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of...
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Riot Days
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From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory,...
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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies
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Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon—the legacy of P. T....
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The Egyptians: A Radical Story
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'I started reading this and couldn't stop. It's a remarkable piece of work, and very revealing. A...
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Lenin on the Train
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By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons,...
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Afterglow: A Dog's Memoir
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Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic...
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