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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America By Heather Cox Richardson Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593652961
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Published: Viking - September 26th, 2023

“Engaging and highly accessible.”—Boston Globe

“A vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals… It's both a cause for hope, and a call to arms.”--Jane Mayer, author Dark Money


Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST By Martin Baron Cover Image
$34.99
ISBN: 9781250844200
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Published: Flatiron Books - October 3rd, 2023

A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money.


Enough By Cassidy Hutchinson Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781668028285
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 26th, 2023

Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history.


The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place) By Tim Marshall Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781668031643
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Published: Scribner - November 7th, 2023

From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes a must-read book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth.

Spy satellites orbiting the moon.


The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution By Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781668019146
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 17th, 2023

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-needed antidote from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind.

Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects.


Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance By Azam Ahmed Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593448410
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Published: Random House - September 26th, 2023

A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter—from a global investigative correspondent for The New York Times


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Raising Lazarus: Hope,  Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis By Beth Macy Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780316430210
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Published: Back Bay Books - July 3rd, 2023

A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on the front lines of the overdose crisis, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick (inspiration for the Peabody Award-winning Hulu limited series) and Factory Man.

Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose cr


Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point By Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780593443071
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Published: Crown - September 12th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die


Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber By Andy Borowitz Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781668003893
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - September 5th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER *

Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly “chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism” (Walter Isaacson) in American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W.


The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma By Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar (With) Cover Image
$32.50
ISBN: 9780593593950
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Published: Crown - September 5th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind


The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End By Neil Howe Cover Image
$32.50
ISBN: 9781982173739
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Published: Simon & Schuster - July 18th, 2023

The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years—and what our lives will look like once it has.


American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy By David Corn Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781538723067
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Published: Twelve - September 12th, 2023

The Instant New York Times Bestseller now available in paperback!

#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.​

A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how