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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (Hardcover)

By Jennifer L. Eberhardt

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ISBN: 9780735224933

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Published: Viking - March 26th, 2019
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making (Hardcover)

By Jared Yates Sexton

$26.00

ISBN: 9781640091818

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Published: Counterpoint LLC - May 7th, 2019
Miracle Creek: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Angie Kim

$27.00

ISBN: 9780374156022

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Published: Sarah Crichton Books - April 16th, 2019

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Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 7 p.m.

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Friday, March 22, 2019 at 7 p.m.

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Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 3:30 p.m.

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Monday, March 25, 2019 at 7 p.m.

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Music

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7:00 pm

Mathangi Subramanian - A People's History of Heaven & T Kira Madden - Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir — in conversation with Sunu Chandy — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

Thu

21

7:00 pm

Lisa See - The Island of Sea Women

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22

7:00 pm

Adam Rutherford - Humanimal: How Homo Sapiens Became Nature's Most Paradoxical Creature--A New Evolutionary History — in conversation with David Epstein

Fri

22

7:00 pm

Elizabeth McCracken - Bowlaway — in conversation with Matthew Klam — at Politics and Prose at Union Market

Sat

23

1:00 pm

Suzannah Lessard - The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape — in conversation with Howard Norman

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4:00 pm

Laurie Halse Anderson - Shout—in conversation with Jill Filipovic at GW Jack Morton Auditorium

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3:30 pm

Xi Xu - This Fish Is Fowl: Essays of Being

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6:00 pm

Michael Ames - American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan

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6:00 pm

Josh Frank - Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made — at Politics and Prose at Union Market

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1:00 pm

David Downie - The Gardener of Eden — in conversation with Colleen Daly

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3:00 pm

Mary Pipher - Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing as We Age

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5:00 pm

POSTPONED: Patricia S. Lemer - Outsmarting Autism: Build Healthy Foundations for Communication, Socialization, and Behavior at All Ages

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