
John Adams
by David McCullough
David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Adams, the principled, irascible, and frequently underestimated second president of the United States.
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by David McCullough
David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Adams, the principled, irascible, and frequently underestimated second president of the United States.
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by Joanna Gaines
The second Magnolia Table cookbook, with 145 new comforting, family-friendly recipes from Joanna Gaines's home and the Magnolia restaurants, built around the spirit of gathering.
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by Joanna Gaines
The third Magnolia Table cookbook, featuring timeless, nostalgic family recipes reimagined for today's home cook, in Joanna Gaines's signature cozy, gathering-focused style.
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by Joanna Gaines
From the Fixer Upper star and Magnolia founder, a collection of approachable, comforting family recipes built around the idea that a shared table is the heart of a home.
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by Lori Gottlieb
Therapist Lori Gottlieb writes about going to therapy herself after a painful breakup, interweaving her own journey as a patient with the stories of four clients she is treating simultaneously.
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by Brad Thor
Scot Harvath faces his most personal mission — hunted by an enemy who knows his every move, in a race across Europe that becomes a fight for survival against someone who may be his equal.
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by Jennifer Segal
Jennifer Segal's second cookbook, smartly split between 70 quick-fix weeknight dinners and 30 more indulgent weekend recipes, all with her trademark foolproof reliability.
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by Min Jin Lee
Following four generations of a Korean family from Japanese-occupied Korea to Osaka's Korean minority community, Pachinko is an epic about survival, identity, and the persistence of discrimination.
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by Yotam Ottolenghi
The follow-up to Ottolenghi's game-changing Plenty, featuring more vegetable-focused recipes that combine Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Asian influences with his signature bold flavours.
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by Yuval Noah Harari
From the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa to the 21st century, Harari traces the full sweep of human history, asking why our species conquered Earth while others failed.
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by Deb Perelman
Deb Perelman's second cookbook, a collection of unfussy, obsessively tested everyday recipes designed for the meals home cooks actually make day in and day out.
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by Deb Perelman
Deb Perelman's third cookbook, a collection of new classics — the keeper recipes built to be made for years, refined to Smitten Kitchen's exacting, obsessively tested standard.
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by Richard Feynman
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's collection of outrageous, funny, and illuminating adventures — from cracking safes at Los Alamos to learning to draw, playing bongo drums, and embarrassing the censors of the Brazilian physics curriculum.
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by Markus Zusak
Set in Nazi Germany, a young girl's love of words and storytelling sustains her through air raids, poverty, and death — narrated by Death itself.
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by Abraham Verghese
A multigenerational saga spanning seventy years of a South Indian Christian family whose members drown in every generation, told against the backdrop of colonial and postcolonial India.
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by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller's classic drama of the 1692 Salem witch trials, written as an allegory of McCarthy-era persecution. As accusations of witchcraft consume a Puritan village, John Proctor must choose between saving his life and keeping his name in a community gone mad.
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by Alex Snodgrass
A Whole30-endorsed collection of healthy, wholesome weeknight recipes that prove eating well can be genuinely satisfying — gluten-free, dairy-free, and grain-free comfort food the whole family will eat.
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by Brandon Sanderson
In a world where ash falls from the sky and the Dark Lord won a thousand years ago, a young thief with extraordinary magical ability joins a crew planning the most audacious heist in history.
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by Stephen King
A death row corrections officer in 1930s Louisiana encounters a gentle giant with miraculous healing powers awaiting execution for a crime he may not have committed.
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by Barbara Tuchman
A narrative history of the first month of World War I — August 1914 — tracing how Europe's powers stumbled into catastrophe through a combination of rigid military planning, diplomatic failure, and the momentum of mobilization.
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by Rebecca Skloot
The story of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent in 1951 and became the most important biological materials in modern medical history — all while her family lived in poverty and ignorance of what had been done.
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by Franz Kafka
Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find he has been transformed into a giant insect — and the story focuses less on the transformation than on his family's response to it.
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by Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander's landmark argument that mass incarceration is the newest system of racial caste control in America — the functional successor to Jim Crow laws and before them, slavery.
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by Kristin Hannah
Two French sisters take radically different paths through the Nazi occupation of France, one hiding Jews in her home, one becoming a resistance fighter guiding Allied pilots to safety.
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