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• 2024

  How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America

  Dawsey, Josh,

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  In 2024, award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive, inside story of the most tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign in our history.

• Midnight on the Potomac

  the Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America

  Ellsworth, Scott (Historian),

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  From the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War—and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

• JFK

  Public, Private, Secret

  Taraborrelli, J. Randy,

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  From the New York Times bestselling Kennedy historian and author of Jackie: Public, Private, Secret comes the other side of the story―her husband’s: JFK: Public, Private, Secret.

• I Want to Burn This Place Down

  Essays

  Kreizman, Maris,

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  A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman—an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the political left.

• On Her Game

  Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports

  Brennan, Christine,

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  A news-making and electrifying portrait of sports phenomenon Caitlin Clark, whose dramatic ascendance in college basketball and now in the WNBA has captured the attention of media and fans unlike any other female team-sport athlete in history.

• The Aviator and the Showman

  Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made An American Icon

  Shapiro, Laurie Gwen,

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  In 1928, a young social worker and hobby pilot named Amelia Earhart arrived in the office of George Putnam, heir to the Putnam & Sons throne and hitmaker, on the hunt for the right woman for a secret flying mission across the Atlantic. A…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Eating the Earth

  the Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate

  Grunwald, Michael, 1970-

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  From the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the fight to fix our food system.

• Empire of AI

  Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

  Hao, Karen,

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  From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The CIA Book Club

  the Secret Mission to Win the Cold War With Forbidden Literature

  English, Charlie,

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  An intriguing and little-known Cold War moment: the astonishing true story of the CIA's secret program to smuggle millions of books through the Iron Curtain.

• Dinner With King Tut

  How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations

  Kean, Sam,

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of The Disappearing Spoon , a romp through the entire history of humankind-from 75,000 B.C. to the dawn of the modern age.

• The Idaho Four

  An American Tragedy

  Patterson, James, 1947-

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  The murders of four innocent college students attending the University of Idaho left us all with so many questions. Now, after more than 300 interviews, James Patterson and prize-winning journalist Vicky Ward finally have some answers.