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Southpaw
Southpaw

by Dennis Gilfeather

SOUTHPAW is a raw, swaggering memoir-novel hybrid that thrives on voice. Dennis Gilfeather’s narrator speaks in a furious, self-mocking, aggressively ...

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Family History Reunion Guide
Family History Reunion Guide

by Xavier V. Nolan

Family History Reunion Guide is a methodical, practical handbook that treats genealogy not as a hobby of nostalgia but as an act of disciplined stewar...

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Library of Democracy
Library of Democracy

by Quentin P. Yarrow

Library of Democracy is an earnest, architecturally coherent meditation on the civic meaning of libraries, and its strongest quality is the seriousnes...

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Common Ground Democracy
Common Ground Democracy

by Quentin P. Yarrow

Common Ground Democracy is a compactly argued civic brief rather than a narrative book, and it is most effective when read as a sustained meditation o...

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Civic Foundations
Civic Foundations

by Quentin P. Yarrow

Civic Foundations is a sustained argument for public schooling as one of democracy’s indispensable institutions, and its central virtue is that it nev...

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City Harvest
City Harvest

by Willow McDonald

City Harvest presents itself as a practical guide to urban agriculture, but its deeper ambition is civic: it wants to persuade readers that growing fo...

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Century-Strong
Century-Strong

by Taylor R. Yates

Century-Strong is a practical, unpretentious guide to the maintenance of a long life, and its strongest quality is also its clearest literary identity...

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Bed Care Basics
Bed Care Basics

by Clara J. Zane

Bed Care Basics is, on the evidence of the supplied text, a practical manual that takes an everyday subject and treats it with unusual seriousness. It...

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Baguette to Pan Bagnat
Baguette to Pan Bagnat

by Lucien Delacroix

Baguette to Pan Bagnat is less a conventional cookbook than a guided tour through the cultural symbolism of French sandwiches, and it is at its strong...

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The Ant Collective
The Ant Collective

by Nora F. Mercer

The Ant Collective is an ambitious synthesis of ant biology that aims to do more than catalogue insect facts. Across its ten chapters, it builds a sus...

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Slug Signals
Slug Signals

by Nora F. Mercer

Slug Signals is an unusually attentive work of natural history, one that makes a familiar creature feel intellectually expansive without ever romantic...

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Buried Lineages
Buried Lineages

by Nora F. Mercer

Buried Lineages is an admirably focused work of natural history and evolutionary explanation, one that takes a creature many readers dismiss as a gard...

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The Woodpecker Signal
The Woodpecker Signal

by Nora F. Mercer

The Woodpecker Signal is an ambitious, intelligent work of popular science writing that uses one bird family to think about behavior, biomechanics, ev...

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Worms in Motion
Worms in Motion

by Nora F. Mercer

Worms in Motion is an ambitious work of popular evolutionary biology that takes an unfashionable subject and uses it to ask genuinely large questions....

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Tech Etiquette for Teens
Tech Etiquette for Teens

by Emma Stewart

Tech Etiquette for Teens is a plainspoken, highly practical guide that aims to bridge a gap many families know well: the distance between adult concer...

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Action Plan for Active Kids
Action Plan for Active Kids

by Dr. Lora-Ellen McKinney

Action Plan for Active Kids is a narrowly focused parenting guide that argues, with tireless conviction, that household chores are not a domestic nuis...

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How to Cure a Cranky Kid
How to Cure a Cranky Kid

by Dr. Lora-Ellen McKinney

How to Cure a Cranky Kid is less a brisk parenting manual than a sustained attempt to reassure worn-out caregivers that toddler turbulence is both nor...

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Love Island Lessons
Love Island Lessons

by Brielle Z. Dalton

Love Island Lessons is less a fan book about a reality series than a cultural essay about what dating has become for Gen Z, and that is both its main ...

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100 Questions That Shape Faith
100 Questions That Shape Faith

by Felix Upton

100 Questions That Shape Faith is, by design, a catechetical book for readers who want Christianity explained in plain language without being flattene...

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The Harmonic Geometry of Existence
The Harmonic Geometry of Existence

by ian hills

Ian Hills’s The Harmonic Geometry of Existence is an unusually ambitious and conceptually unified work: a book that seeks not merely to interpret a fi...

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One Inch Between Life And Death Updated And Revised Second Edition
One Inch Between Life And Death Updated And Revised Second Edition

by Steven A. Hauer

One Inch Between Life and Death: Updated and Revised Second Edition is a deeply sincere memoir that turns a single catastrophic moment into a meditati...

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They Were in Prison and I Visited Them
They Were in Prison and I Visited Them

by Terry L. Olson

They Were in Prison and I Visited Them is an earnest, deeply felt, and ultimately moving work of Christian witness that reads like both a memoir and a...

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Living the Blues
Living the Blues

by Fito de la Parra

Living the Blues is exactly the kind of rock memoir that reminds readers why music history, when told from the inside, can feel stranger, funnier, sad...

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The Last Viracocha
The Last Viracocha

by Douglas Schofield

The Last Viracocha is the rare kind of genre novel that manages to be both exuberantly entertaining and intellectually ambitious. Douglas Schofield op...

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