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OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?: A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work Cover Image

Had I Known: Collected Essays Cover Image

Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World Cover Image

What Makes a Marriage Last: 40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life Cover Image

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Cover Image

Camp Girls: Fireside Lessons on Friendship, Courage, and Loyalty Cover Image

What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Sibley Guides) Cover Image

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Cover Image

Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator Cover Image

The Paladin: A Spy Novel Cover Image

All Adults Here: A Novel Cover Image

Little Family: A Novel Cover Image

Big Summer: A Novel Cover Image

The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel Cover Image

Weather: A novel Cover Image

The End of October: A novel Cover Image

Redhead by the Side of the Road: A novel Cover Image

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Sea Wife: A novel Cover Image

Children & Teens Books

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Thank You, Omu! Cover Image

We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands Cover Image

What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Cover Image

Now You Know How It Works Cover Image

Kitten and the Night Watchman Cover Image

Audiobooks: Start Listening

Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel Cover Image

Educated: A Memoir Cover Image

The Witch Elm: A Novel Cover Image

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P&P Live!: Anthony DePalma — The Cubans

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P&P Live!: Sarah Posner - Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump - in conversation with Jeff Sharlet

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P&P Live!: Seventh Inning Stretch with Christopher Beha and Emily Nemens

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P&P Live!: Sam Wedelich - Chicken Little: The Real and Totally True Tale

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P&P Live!: Alexandra Petri - Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why - in conversation with Emily Nussbaum

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Live @ Lunch!: Rick Hanson - Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness

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P&P Live!: Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, and Meg Kelly — Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth

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P&P Live!: Masha Gessen - Surviving Autocracy — in conversation with Dahlia Lithwick

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P&P Live!: Roseanne A. Brown - A Song of Wraiths and Ruin — in conversation with Kiersten White

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P&P Live!: Megha Majumdar - A Burning, and C Pam Zhang - How Much of These Hills Is Gold

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P&P Live!: Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half - in partnership with Girls Night In

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P&P Live!: Sinéad Gleeson – Constellations: Reflections from Life —in conversation with Leslie Jamison

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This is a story about a woman and her dog sent to clean out her estranged, and now deceased, grandmother... read more
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Since Lab Girl, Jahren relocated to Oslo, Norway, where, along with her award-winning work in... read more
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What happens when your savior isn't enough? How do you protect your family? Through visceral and vibrant... read more
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After college, Jason Hardy finds himself selling watches at J.C. Penney’s. Totally unsuited for the job... read more
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Voting rights are under attack. If we want a fair election, consider this book required reading.... read more
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Prescott’s favorite writer is Kafka, so any echo of The Trial or The Castle in his title is likely... read more

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“Dear Dreamer,” Jason Reynolds writes, “This letter is being written / from a place of raw honesty and... read more
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“You were born to be so many things,” Peter Reynolds writes in his uplifting new picture book. On double... read more
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“Did you know it’s all right to wonder? There are all kinds of wonderful things!” In A Beautiful Day in... read more

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