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The discovery of a forgotten graveyard upends a multi-million-dollar Manhattan real estate deal in this richly drawn exploration of the crisis of urban homelessness and its intersection with history In late 2019, the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) put a $1 million nonrefundable downpayment...

Vital lessons and wisdom from StoryCorps’ acclaimed nine-year project of bringing people together from across the American political divide to listen to one another A liberal and a conservative walk into a room. No, it’s not the set-up to a joke. It’s the first step in a remarkable...

A feat of reporting and writing by an award-winning journalist, What’s Done in the Dark tells the story of a shocking pattern of police misconduct in Chicago and the group of working-class women who fought for two decades to expose it In April 1999, the mothers, sisters, and aunts of men...

From Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former speechwriter Lissa Muscatine, the inside story of Hillaryland: a group of women and a first lady who were brought together under the roof of American democracy and forged a new path for women in politics By the time Lissa Muscatine arrived at the Clinton...

This beautiful award-winning memoir follows a mother and daughter’s journey into the water to discover profound life lessons from whales and dolphins about the power of care and connection. Eleanor Dooks is raising her family on the Scottish seaside, but she’s afraid of the water—until her...

Renowned economic historian and "crisis whisperer" Adam Tooze (Crashed) tells the story of climate change as the first truly global crisis of our time—and the struggle that is shifting the center of power from the West to China For decades, climate change was framed as a Western drama...

The #1 USA Today Bestseller and Instant New York Times Bestseller From California Governor Gavin Newsom comes an intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics “Go slow,” his political elders advised him, but Gavin Newsom has...

“Mind-expanding . . . The Score is so exuberant and readable that the depth and seriousness of its insights almost sneak up on you.” —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “Brilliant and wildly original . . . The Score is socially attentive, historically literate and imbued with sensual...

An ideal introduction to the work of the poet, activist, and visionary whom Toni Morrison called “our premiere Black woman essayist,” Nothing Less Than Love brings together for the first time June Jordan’s essential writings on the revolutionary power of love. A Penguin Classics Deluxe...

From New York Times journalist Anna Kodé: a love letter to the power of experiencing the world with fresh eyes, and an investigation—both practical and philosophical—into what it means to observe. One December afternoon a few years ago, Kodé stood in her grandmother’s kitchen in...

A sweeping American epic of rivers, oil, and the rule of law—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rising Tide and The Great Influenza In Water and Oil, John Barry traces three great rivers and the struggle to control them: the Missouri, bearing the soil of the Great Plains; the...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Spencer Ackerman, the story of an immigrant father and the radicalized son he lost—first to al-Qaeda, then to two decades in CIA black sites and Guantanamo Bay’s notorious Camp VII—a landmark work of investigative reporting that uncovers the...

Historian, professor and data scientist Jo Guldi turns the David and Goliath story of the 19th century Irish Land Wars to show how a small band of revolutionary Irish peasants—pioneering nonviolent activism and minting ideas like rent control and land transfer—took on the British Empire and...

A clear-eyed manual for building a life of meaning in the chaos of the modern world So you’ve realized life is meaningless. Religion is fake, your job is pointless, society is a charade, and everyone else is just pretending things are fine when, in reality, existential despair is the only...

From the bestselling author of the classic You Just Don't Understand, an exploration of how apologies can make or break our relationships with others Why do some apologies heal while others make things worse? Why do some people resist saying “I’m sorry,” and others can’t stop? Drawing on...

The breathtaking story of a homicide at the U.S.-Mexico border, the subsequent trial, and the harrowing consequences of America’s longstanding culture of vigilantism and the lies we tell ourselves about immigration Around noon on January 30th, 2023, a 48-year-old man named Gabriel Cuen...

From “brilliant commentator on the pressing issues and leading ideas of our time” (Ted Gioia) Jared Henderson, a powerful argument that a life of the mind is essential to our humanity For the ancient philosophers, a life worth living was spent in contemplation of higher ideas that challenged...

The inspiring true story of the generation of Black officials who took their activism into the halls of power, working in historic leadership roles within the White House, forever reshaping civil rights, presidential politics, and the nation. The history of the 1960s is often told through the...

In Blackonomics, veteran business reporter Sonari Glinton upends conventional wisdom about the economy by exposing how racism harms it and revealing how equal access to markets is the only way to save it. Sonari Glinton has often been the only Black man in the room reporting on major news events...

A cultural history of the record-shattering Broadway musical The Wiz, and the beloved movie it inspired, revealing the never-before-told story of the man behind the sensation Since its release in 1978, The Wiz has become a cultural mainstay. Jam-packed with the top stars of the day, Diana Ross...