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Wildland: The Making of America's Fury (Hardcover)

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Antoni: Let's Do Dinner (Hardcover)

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I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America (Hardcover)

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The Death of Francis Bacon: A Novel (Hardcover)

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White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality (Hardcover)

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Talk to Me: A Novel (Hardcover)

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Dark Things I Adore (Hardcover)

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To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers (Hardcover)

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The Inconvenient Journalist: A Memoir (Hardcover)

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Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li (Hardcover)

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Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System (Hardcover)

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Apples Never Fall (Hardcover)

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The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future (Hardcover)

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Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy (Hardcover)

By Nathaniel Philbrick

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