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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating…

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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America Protests against racial…

According to U.S. military planners, climate change now poses the #1 national security threat to the United States, even before…

As husband and wife, Fred and Rose West bonded over sadism, kidnapping, and killing. Here is the gripping true account of their monstrous marriage — “a story of obsessive love as well as obsessive murder” (The Times).

“Told with a poet’s sensibility” (The New York Times Book Review): Khizr Khan is the Muslim American Gold Star Father and Democratic National Convention speaker who captured hearts and minds across the country. Here he shares his powerful story — from growing up in rural Pakistan to laying his son to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

On death row for the murders of a mother and her daughters, soldier Tim Hennis was found not guilty at a second trial after his defense team exposed false testimony. But the shocking results of a DNA test would bring the case to court for an unprecedented third time…

In this Washington Post Best Book of 2017, a New York Times bestselling author delivers “a searing exposé” (Kirkus Reviews) of Eric Garner’s death at the hands of a New York Police Department officer. “Brilliant… A necessary and riveting work” (Booklist starred review).

By the time well-liked Wayne Nance was identified as the Missoula Mauler, he had murdered several people and terrorized a quiet community for 12 years. This book explains how Nance was able to remain undetected for so long — and how a courageous couple fought back and helped bring him to justice.

Discover the simple, universal laws that govern everything from the human life span to the growth of cities in a theoretical physicist’s “illuminating and entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews) exploration of scale! With over 1,400 five-star Goodreads ratings, this is “an enchanting intellectual odyssey… Provocative and fascinating” (The New York Times).