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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer."— Oprah Daily

From an award-winning writer at the New York Tim…

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Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement

Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana—all for …

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The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, …

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The Santa Claus Girl

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The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story

In 1972, Martha "Marty" Goddard volunteered at a crisis hotline, counseling girls who had been molested by their fathers, their teachers, their uncles. Soon, Marty was on a mission to answer a questio…

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Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide

A leading social scientist explains the psychology of our current social divide and how understanding it can help reduce the conflicts it causes. There has been much written about the impact of polari…

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Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith

A hilarious and eye-opening account of leaving Christian Nationalism behind to follow Jesus better. April Ajoy wouldn’t have called herself a Christian Nationalist when she performed her original so…

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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world’s deadliest plagues: tuberculos…

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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confoundi…

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Poverty, by America

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

The United States, the richest country on earth, has more …

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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire--the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century--and a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate…

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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. No one …

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American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15

The epic history of America’s most controversial weapon

In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Ston…

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They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America…

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Newtown: An American Tragedy

A journalist for The Daily News (New York) offers a “meticulous account of the Newtown massacre and its aftermath.…it’s been a year, and this harrowing book might be a reminder that the debate needs r…

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Sandy Hook

Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson’s landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting, th…

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Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

"Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump's presidency-a…

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Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of t…

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White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least likely to defend its core principles

White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demograph…

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