Category: Current Nonfiction

Battle of the Bands

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Candlewick : September 2021

Seller ID: 88978

ISBN-13: 9781536214338

Fifteen young adult authors and one real-life rock star band together for one epic--and interconnected--take on a memorable high school rite of passage. A daughter of rock 'n' roll royalty has a secret crush. A lonely ticket taker worries about his sister. An almost-famous songwriter nurses old wounds. A stage manager tires of being behind the scenes. A singer-songwriter struggles to untangle her feelings for her best friend and his girlfriend. In this live-out-loud anthology, the disparate protagonists of sixteen stories are thrown together for one unforgettable event: their high school's bat...
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Price: $7.00

Publisher: One World : November 2021

Seller ID: 72178

ISBN-13: 9780593230572

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States. The New York Time...
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When Home Is Not Safe: Writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional and Physical Abuse

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Exposit Books : August 2021

Seller ID: 59048

ISBN-13: 9781476683928

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Even if you haven't been hurt by domestic violence, someone you know has and wishes they could tell you about it. Perhaps you are a therapist, teacher, academic, or social worker who wants to help those who are suffering. Or maybe you are in an abusive relationship and need to know that you are not alone. The poetry, memoirs, and creative nonfiction pieces collected here tell of real incidents of verbal, emotional, and physical abuse, as well as of those who left destructive and unsalvageable relationships. The beauty and truth of the language, as well as the honesty and courage on the page, s...
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You Are Radically Loved: A Healing Journey to Self-Love

By: Acosta, Rosie

Price: $7.00

Publisher: TarcherPerigee : February 2022

Seller ID: 93048

ISBN-13: 9780593330159

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the award-winning host of the Radically Loved podcast, an invitation to discover the healing power of who you are, body, mind, and spirit. Growing up in East L.A. in the nineties, Rosie Acosta dismissed spirituality and wellness as something people like her didn't do. But after being arrested at age fifteen, she knew that only a radical change would lead her away from debilitating anxiety and self-doubt. As she puts it, yoga offered her a ladder and she began to climb. In this empowering and accessible guide, Acosta leads readers through the essential spiritual practices she uses to crea...
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Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One

By: Adams, Katrina M

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Amistad : February 2021

Seller ID: 72751

ISBN-13: 9780062936820

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the former President and CEO of the United States Tennis Association--the first black woman and youngest person ever to hold the position--comes a behind-the-scenes look at the leadership skills involved in hosting the U.S. Open, the largest and most lucrative sports event in the world--lessons that can be applied across business and to any life challenge.One of professional tennis's Grand Slam Tournaments, the U.S. Open has been described as a fourteen-day Superbowl. This single tennis championship, held annually in New York City, attracts top professionals from around the globe, generat...
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The Trayvon Generation

By: Alexander, Elizabeth

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing : April 2022

Seller ID: 74456

ISBN-13: 9781538737897

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It

By: Bartlett, Jamie

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Hachette Books : June 2022

Seller ID: 88479

ISBN-13: 9780306829161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Bloom, Amy

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Random House : March 2022

Seller ID: 80562

ISBN-13: 9780593243947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this powerful memoir of boundary-defying love, New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom tells the story of her husband's painful and affirming decision to choose his own ending.In Love is an unforgettable portrait of one couple's determination to support each other in their last journey together. Amy Bloom and her husband Brian's world was changed forever when an MRI confirmed the truth they could no longer ignore. Bloom reflects back on the loving marriage they shared, and then the sudden cascade of things going wrong: Brian's decision to retire, his withdrawal from friends. Suddenly, i...
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Reimagining Global Philanthropy: The Community Bank Model of Social Development

By: Bowman, Kirk,Wilcox, Jon

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing : September 2021

Seller ID: 86888

ISBN-13: 9780231200103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Well-meaning Westerners want to find ways to help the less fortunate. Today, many are not just volunteering abroad and donating to international nonprofits but also advancing innovations and launching projects that aim to be socially transformative. However, often these activities are not efficient ways of helping others, and too many projects cause more harm than good. Reimagining Global Philanthropy shares the journey of a conservative banker and a progressive professor to find a better way forward. Kirk S. Bowman and Jon R. Wilcox explain the boom in the global compassion industry, revealin...
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From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

By: Brooks, Arthur C.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Portfolio : February 2022

Seller ID: 96204

ISBN-13: 9780593191484

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful it is when it occurs. What can we do, starting now, to make our older years a time of happiness, purpose, and yes, success? At the height of his ...
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All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business

By: Brooks, Mel

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books : November 2021

Seller ID: 94518

ISBN-13: 9780593159118

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.
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Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City

By: Brooks, Rosa

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Penguin Press : February 2021

Seller ID: 84905

ISBN-13: 9780525557852

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the blue wall of silence in this radical inside examination of American policing In her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University, Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law's troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world--and whether that world can be changed. In 2015, against the adv...
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

By: Brown, Daniel James

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Viking : May 2021

Seller ID: 78340

ISBN-13: 9780525557401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism... Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown's ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner." - Wall Street Journal "A masterwork of American history that will change the way we look at World War II.--Adam Makos, author of A Higher Call From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism, highlighting the ...
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

By: Brown, Daniel James

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Viking : May 2021

Seller ID: 94443

ISBN-13: 9780525557401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism... Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown's ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner." - Wall Street Journal "A masterwork of American history that will change the way we look at World War II.--Adam Makos, author of A Higher Call From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism, highlighting the ...
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The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil

By: Brown, Tina

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Crown : April 2022

Seller ID: 93734

ISBN-13: 9780593138090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

By: Campbell, Matthew,Chellel, Kit

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Portfolio : May 2022

Seller ID: 94925

ISBN-13: 9780593329238

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"A triumph of investigative journalism." --Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale From award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy--and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all. In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of Somali pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for Lloyd's of London,...
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Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival

By: Clavin, Tom

Price: $8.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : November 2021

Seller ID: 78331

ISBN-13: 9781250151261

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The incredible true story of an American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just 22 years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the war he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effe...
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Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness

By: Coates, Laura

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : January 2022

Seller ID: 85765

ISBN-13: 9781982173760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A powerful true story and groundbreaking account of bias in the courtroom from CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates, recounting her time as a Black female prosecutor for the US Department of Justice. In this urgent, timely, and deeply personal debut, Just Pursuit exposes the bias in the justice system from the perspective of a Black female federal prosecutor at the US Department of Justice. Through the prism of Laura Coates's experience, first as a voting-rights attorney in the Civil Rights Division and then as a federal prosecutor as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington DC, we s...
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

By: Cooper, Anderson,Howe, Katherine

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harper : September 2021

Seller ID: 81814

ISBN-13: 9780062964618

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires--one in shipping and another in railroads--that would make...
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Divine Sparks

By: DiCiurcio, Starr Regan

Price: $6.00

Publisher: DartFrog Books : October 2021

Seller ID: 94307

ISBN-13: 9781953910943

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump

By: Dovere, Edward-Isaac

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Viking : May 2021

Seller ID: 63231

ISBN-13: 9781984878076

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An award-winning political journalist for The Atlantic tells the inside story of how the embattled Democratic party, seeking a direction for its future during the Trump years, successfully regained the White House. The 2020 presidential campaign was a defining moment for America. As Donald Trump and his nativist populism cowed the Republican Party into submission, many Democrats--haunted by Hillary Clinton's shocking loss in 2016, which led to a four-year-long identity crisis--were convinced he would be unbeatable. Their party and the country, it seemed, might never recover. How, then, did Dem...
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Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

By: Driver, Minnie

Price: $7.00

Publisher: HarperOne : May 2022

Seller ID: 81714

ISBN-13: 9780063115309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

By: Fanone, Michael,Shiffman, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Atria Books : October 2022

Seller ID: 94569

ISBN-13: 9781668007198

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Divided We Fall

By: French, David

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Griffin : February 2022

Seller ID: 93427

ISBN-13: 9781250836731

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Adrift: America in 100 Charts

By: Galloway, Scott

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Portfolio : September 2022

Seller ID: 94574

ISBN-13: 9780593542408

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century

By: Galloway, Stephen

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing : March 2022

Seller ID: 95342

ISBN-13: 9781538731970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Gates, Bill

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Knopf : February 2021

Seller ID: 78373

ISBN-13: 9780385546133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work tow...
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Gates, Bill

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Knopf : February 2021

Seller ID: 76009

ISBN-13: 9780385546133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work tow...
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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Global Icons Series)

By: Goodall, Jane,Abrams, Douglas,Hudson, Gail

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Celadon Books : October 2021

Seller ID: 95338

ISBN-13: 9781250784094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval--it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed. In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, and Douglas Abrams, the internationally bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope, Jane focuses o...
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

By: Grant, Adam

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Viking : February 2021

Seller ID: 80429

ISBN-13: 9781984878106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Current Nonfiction