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  • A City on Mars

    Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

    *** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Hugo Award * Scientific American’s #1 Book for 2023 * Winner of Royal Society's Trivedi Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Trivedi Prize * A Times Best Science and Environment Book of 2023 * A Tor.com Best Book of 2023 *“Exceptional. . . Forceful, engaging and funny . . . This book will make you happy ... Read more

    $2.42 USD

  • Mao

    The Unknown Story

    The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown ... Read more

    $2.42 USD

  • On Tyranny

    Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has writ... ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

  • Them

    Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal

    by Ben Sasse ...
    This New York Times bestseller “argues that Americans are richer, more informed and ‘connected’ than ever—and unhappier, more isolated and less fulfilled” (George Will, The Washington Post).Something is wrong. We all know it.American life expectancy is declining. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn’t just wrong; they’re evil. We’re the richest country in ... Read more

    $13.69 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon

    A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

    by Bill McKibben ...
    One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022**Bill McKibben—award-winning author, activist, educator—is fiercely curious.“I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.”**Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing—knowing—that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution ... Read more

    $10.39 USD

  • Original Meanings

    Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has meant different things at ... Read more

    $2.42 USD

  • Voices of Protest

    Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression

    by Alan Brinkley ...
    The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest origins and their parallel rise together in the early years of the Great Depression to ... Read more

    $2.42 USD

  • Surviving Autocracy

    by Masha Gessen ...
    “When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times“A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —InterviewAs seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Unredacted

    Russia, Trump, and the Fight for Democracy

    The intelligence officer behind the explosive “Steele Dossier” steps out of the shadows, revealing a searing new report on the threat Putin and Trump pose to democracy, based on alarming intelligence exposed in these pages for the first time“Putin is now desperate to have Donald Trump back in the White House. If he succeeds in helping Trump get reelected, I am convinced that the global political ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

    What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped).Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin—enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America and Europe. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Democracy Awakening

    Notes on the State of America

    **A New York Times BestsellerA vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.“Magisterial.” –The Washington Post“An excellent primer for anyone who needs the important facts of the last 150 years of American ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • The Message

    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.“Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race.”—Associated Press“Coates exhorts readers, ... Read more

    $13.19 USD

  • Untouchable

    How Powerful People Get Away with It

    by Elie Honig ...
    A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ'#1 ON COSMOPOLITAN'S 11 BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOKS TO ADD TO YOUR TBR PILE IN 2023CNN senior legal analyst and nationally bestselling author Elie Honig explores America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the powerful— including, most notoriously, Donald Trump—manipulate the legal system to escape justice and get away with vast ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • Tyranny of the Minority

    Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die“[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity about how the forces of the right have co-opted the enshrined rules to exert their tyranny.”—The Washington PostONE OF THE CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF BOOKS’ TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A NEWSWEEK BES... ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

  • Out: How Brexit Got Done and the Tories Were Undone

    by Tim Shipman ...
    The hotly anticipated final book of bestselling author Tim Shipman’s Brexit quartet. The Johnson Years to Rishi SunakHow did Boris Johnson supersede Theresa May to become Britain's Prime Minister? How did he pursue his promise to Get Brexit Done amidst multiple Brexit secretaries, repeated coup attempts and reshuffles, and an extraordinarily terse relationship with Brussels? What really happened ... Read more

    $21.09 USD

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  • Our Time Is Now

    Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

    by Stacey Abrams ...
    From New York Times bestselling author of Lead From The Outside and political leader Stacey Abrams, a blueprint to end voter suppression, empower our citizens, and take back our country."With each page, she inspires and empowers us to create systems that reflect a world in which all voices are heard and all people believe and feel that they matter." **—**Kerry WashingtonA recognized expert on fair ... Read more

    $8.89 USD

  • Overshoot

    How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown

    A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a PipelineIt might soon be far too hot on this planet. What do we do then? In the era of "overshoot," schemes abound for turning down the heat–not now, but a few decades down the road. We’re being told that we can return to liveable temperatures by means of technologies for ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The People, No

    A Brief History of Anti-Populism

    by Thomas Frank ...
    A “brilliantly written, eye-opening” look at how elites distort the meaning of populism by the bestselling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? (The Washington Post).Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How the World Really Works

    The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.”*—*Bill Gates“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you ... Read more

    $14.89 USD

  • We Were Eight Years in Power

    An American Tragedy

    **In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • I Alone Can Fix It

    Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

    **The instant #1 New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of 2021The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters and authors of A Very Stable Genius.“Chilling.” – Anderson Cooper“Jaw-dropping.” – John Berman“Shocking.” – John Heilemann“Explosive.” – Hallie ... Read more

    $2.42 USD

  • Hate Inc.

    Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

    by Matt Taibbi ...
    Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment businessIn this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Stolen Pride

    Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

    In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land**, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance.**A 2024 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice PickFor all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • The Big Guy

    How a President and His Son Sold Out America

    The New York Post columnist, Fox News contributor, and national bestselling author of Laptop from Hell returns with the explosive, definitive account of the Biden family scandals.It’s rare that a campaign season has anything like an IRS whistleblower and a California US attorney saying they were blocked from pursuing charges, foreign wire transfers of millions of dollars going to several members ... Read more

    $18.49 USD