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“But just as a drowned body will rise to the surface, whatever is repressed will always return.”

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“It is a long story set to music, a rich and jeweled history sung to the rhythm of the decades, each poet making a case for joy . . .”

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The Rev. William J. Barber II is one of the nation’s foremost civil rights and anti-poverty leaders. Although African American, he has always insisted on a multiracial agenda in his activism.

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Edward Wong, a diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times, has written a hybrid book that combines family history, a wider examination of China through the ages, snippets of reportage

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“an exceptional account of the impact of trauma, the struggle for healing, and the very real chance to find freedom.”

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“an exciting, disturbing portrait of Hollywood’s cultural power during its heyday.” 

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Tiger, Tiger is not the first, nor will it most likely be the last, attempt to write the definitive biography of Tiger Woods, arguably the greatest golfer in the history of the game.

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“Muir’s ideas on race and religion . . . were far from remarkable and very much congruous with contemporaneous ideological hegemony. What stands out . . .

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“Buckle your seatbelts and look forward to the futuristic ride of your lifetime.”

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We Refuse goes a long way to helping us understand an important part of our national past, slavery, racism and resistance.” 

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“a heartfelt book that will definitely speak to many people who have had to navigate the cracks, fissures, and fault lines between radically different cultures across generations.”

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Music industry executive and cultural ambassador David Junk, and veteran music journalist Fred Bronson, have combined their talents to write a fast-moving, information-rich narrative about the inte

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“a story of astonishing self-indulgence and greed by France’s tiny, privileged nobility at the expense of the subjects of the realm.”

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Here is a book for anyone hoping to learn more about the emergence of female liberation; for any historian anxious to take in another facet of life in one of Europe’s most dazzling cities; and for

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This magisterial biography rightly places John Quincy Adams at the forefront of great American statesmen.”

The words “with me” tickled Salman Khan’s imagination when he was naming his new invention, an AI tutor for academic studies.

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“a genre-expanding noir memoir-detective story, full of drama, intrigue, bizarre characters, even more bizarre behavior, and unexpected twists.”

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“That same summer, Sheila Rohan traveled by bus, ferry, and two different subway lines to get from Staten Island to Harlem,” writes author Karen Valby about these pioneering Black ballerinas and th

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White people have a lot to learn about people of color, both in history and today. This book might very well help some of us understand.”

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Kara Loewentheil hosts a very successful podcast UNF*CK YOUR BRAIN: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone, and in her new book draws on cognitive psychology, feminist theory, and years of experience as “

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The Iraq War is only beginning to receive its due historical reckoning, with many new volumes uncovering the background of the 2003 invasion and discussing the biased, chaotic and often dysfunction

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“Night Flyer reminds readers that even the most unlikely of persons can impact their worlds, for good or evil.

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“Paul McCartney, put it well. He said she had ‘the best female voice in the world, melodic, tuneful, distinctive.’”

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