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Dive into a world of adventure, insight, and inspiration with our handpicked selection of books perfect for any interest.
 
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Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, rise above the tit for tats on social media, and triumph in a successful and productive debate in the real world.
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking a book by Mehdi Hasan
 
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.
Letter to My Daughter a book by Maya Angelou
 
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The Heart of a Woman is filled with unforgettable vignettes of such renowned people as Billie Holiday and Malcom X, but perhaps most importantly chronicles the joys and the burdens of a black mother in America and how the son she has cherished so int...
The Heart of a Woman a book by Maya Angelou
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From France's #1 bestselling author, Central Park is a taut and suspenseful thriller that will keep readers riveted until its final shocking twist.
Central Park a book by Guillaume Musso and Sam Taylor
 
Will You Be There? a book by Guillaume Musso
 
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The breakthrough two-million-copy international bestseller about how to befriend your inner child to find happiness
The Child in You: The Breakthrough Method for Bringing Out Your Authentic Self a book by Stefanie Stahl
 
Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams a book by Stefanie K Johnson
 
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The novel describes the lives of four sisters: Meg, Beth, Jo, and Amy, describing their passage from childhood, coming of age to adulthood
Little Woman a book by Louisa May Alcortt
 
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Beloved a book by Toni Morrison
 
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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
To Kill a Mockingbird a book by Harper Lee
 
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You can have more time, flexibility, recognition, income, and impact. You're capable of so much more than you know. You've got this!
Two Weeks Notice: Find the Courage to Quit Your Job, Make More Money, Work Where You Want, and Change the World a book by Amy Porterfield
 
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Named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub
Braiding Sweetgrass a book by Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
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Taylor Jenkins Reid is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo a book by Taylor Jenkins Reid
 
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From nationally bestselling, award-winning author Liam Callanan, the story of an opportunity to start over at midlife, a chance to save a struggling convent in the Eternal City, and the dramatic re-emergence of an old flame . . .
When in Rome a book by Liam Callanan
 
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The basis of the Oscar-nominated film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.
Women Talking a book by Miriam Toews
 
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In this expansive guide, expert Maura Thomas explores how to combat insidious problems that are costing your organization millions.
Everyone Wants to Work Here: Attract the Best Talent, Energize Your Team, and Be the Leader in Your Market a book by Maura Thomas
 
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"Delightful and absorbing." --The New York Times -
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow a book by Gabrielle Zevin
 
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In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels.
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir a book by Maggie Smith
 
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Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced.
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility a book by Thelma Young Lutunatabua and Rebecca Solnit
 
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From Lane Moore, the critically acclaimed author of How to Be Alone, comes a searingly intimate, yet wildly funny exploration of the frustrating, messy, and, at times, deeply joyful experience of learning how to make meaningful friendships as an adul...
You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult a book by Lane Moore
 
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OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of ...
The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) a book by Abraham Verghese
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Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings--asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass--offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear...
Braiding Sweetgrass a book by Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
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When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they were inseparable. Selasi was exuberant and funny, Akorfa quiet and studious. They would do anything for each other, imploring their parents to let them be togeth...
Nightbloom a book by Peace Adzo Medie
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With unflinching honesty and heart, this relatable debut from a fresh new voice explores grief and mental health while capturing the timeless nature of what it's like to be young and in love--with your friends, with your city, and with a person who c...
Adelaide a book by Genevieve Wheeler
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Wander from scenes of a book nook filled with plants to a hiking trail in the Pacific Northwest and explore gardens filled with everything from sunflowers to artichokes. If you love flowers, plants, and pausing to appreciate the beauty and wonder of ...
The Plant Lady: A Floral Coloring Book with Succulents and Flowers a book by Sarah Simon and Paige Tate & Co
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"[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increas...
This Is How You Lose the Time War a book by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
 
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A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevit...
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity a book by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford
 
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A potent and electrifying critique of today's feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot a book by Mikki Kendall
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100 Ways to Change Your Life offers real answers to questions, and so many more. This is a new kind of personal growth book; here, veteran journalist Liz Moody translates her years of experience interviewing the world's leading doctors, scientists, a...
100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success a book by Liz Moody
 
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You deserve to feel empowered to take matters into your own hands--and it's not as hard as you might think. In this book, Mercury will show you how to tackle the projects that need improvement in your home--from how to properly fix a clog in your bat...
Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair a book by Mercury Stardust
 
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Viola Ford Fletcher's memoir Don't Let Them Bury My Story vividly recounts the lasting impact of the Tulsa Massacre on her life. As the oldest survivor and last living witness of the tragic events that unfolded in 1921, she shares her testimony with ...
Don't Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words a book by Ike Howard and Viola Ford Fletcher
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This definitive book illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell's incredibly diverse and exciting body of work--from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress Roden Crater. Whether projecting shapes on a flat wall or in...
James Turrell: A Retrospective a book by E C Krupp, James Turrell, Michael Govan, et al.
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In My Brother, Muhammad Ali, Rahaman offers an insider's perspective on the well-known stories as well as never-before-told tales, painting a rich and intimate portrait of a proud, relentlessly polarizing, yet often vulnerable man. In this extraordin...
My Brother, Muhammad Ali: The Definitive Biography a book by Rahaman Ali, Fiaz Rafiq, and Jim Brown
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A book of salt and grit, blood and sweat, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea is an unmissable portrait of a woman who leads with the courage and ruthlessness of our darkest and most beloved heroes.
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea a book by Rita Chang-Eppig
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Survival became her reporter's beat. In places like India, Tibet, and Niger, she interviewed those who had been through the unimaginable. In Cambodia, where she lived for six years, she watched a country reckon with the horrors of its own recent hist...
Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir a book by Rachel Louise Snyder
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Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers, and a few unsung heroes, written like a thriller and a reference, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing feat of journalism. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, Nicole P...
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race a book by Nicole Perlroth
 
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Based on real events and told through the "minutes" of the women's all-female symposium, Toews's masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.
Women Talking a book by Miriam Toews
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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striv...
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, 1)
 
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Don’t miss the explosive new sequel to Rebecca Yarros’s bestselling hit, Fourth Wing.
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, 2)
 
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Don't miss the New York Times and USA Today bestseller and addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that’s burning up Instagram and TikTok--Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid is perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell, and Verity.
The Housemaid
 
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This absolutely explosive and shockingly twisty sequel to international bestseller The Housemaid will keep you racing through the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose, The Woman in the Window and Gone Girl w...
The Housemaid's Secret: A gripping psychological thriller
 
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An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is “a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper. The kind of book that gets handed down
It Ends with Us: A Novel (1)
 
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Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-pounding” (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more...
It Starts with Us: A Novel (2) (It Ends with Us)
 
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Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us.
Verity
 
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Twisted Love is a contemporary brother's best friend/grumpy sunshine romance. It's book one in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone.
Twisted Love (Twisted, 1)
 
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Unexpected and forbidden, theirs is a love that could destroy a kingdom...and doom them both.
Twisted Games (Twisted, 2)
 
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Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad — and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need...
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Kids
 
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The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the mor...
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer a book by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin
 
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A poignant guide to embracing the present and deepening relationships during great vulnerability, How to Say Goodbye shows that just as there is no one right way to live a good life, there is no one right way to say goodbye. Whether we're confused, s...
How to Say Goodbye a book by Wendy Macnaughton
 
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Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, An...
Tom Lake a book by Ann Patchett
 
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This book uses one of the most popular accessories of childhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning. Some readings would see Barbie as reproducing ethnicity and gender in a particularly coarse and damaging way - a cultural ic...
Barbie Culture a book by Mary F. Rogers
 
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We all know how important it is to reduce our environmental footprint, but it can be daunting to know where to begin.
101 Ways to Go Zero Waste a book by Kathryn Kellogg