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• Cancel Me If You Can

  Portnoy, Dave,

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  Since he founded Barstool Sports in 2004, the digital media mogul’s reputation has shifted from scrappy upstart to disruptive visionary and, most recently, unapologetic contrarian. Here, he tells his side of the story.

• Checkmate

  Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess

  Mezrich, Ben, 1969-

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  The best-selling author of “The Accidental Billionaires,” the basis for the movie “The Social Network,” unravels the scandal that rocked the chess world in 2022, when a 19-year-old American prodigy was accused of cheating after he unseated the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Crooked Places Made Straight

  Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America

  Warnock, Raphael G.,

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  Warnock, the Baptist pastor who has represented Georgia in the U.S. Senate since 2021, shares what he calls his “moral topography” on six issues: voting rights, mass incarceration, gun violence, climate change, income inequality and dark money in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• HOW TO NOT DIE IN PRISON: A SURVIVAL GUIDE

  Hardcover

  Sheridan, Taylor

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  Sheridan, who created “Yellowstone,” has never been in prison, but the coauthor of this tough-talking guide says that’s by design. “One of us has written hit TV shows and Academy Award-nominated movies, and the other has spent much of his adult life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Regime Change

  Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump /

  Haberman, Maggie,

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• Something We Said

  Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me

  Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur,

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  In this personal and linguistic history, Pryor traces her complicated relationship with her father, the celebrated comedian Richard Pryor, and with the racial slur that played a central role in his career.

• Transcendent

  a Memoir

  Cox, Laverne,

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  The Emmy-nominated transgender actress and L.G.B.T.Q. rights activist was on the verge of giving up her Hollywood dream when she landed a life-changing role in “Orange Is the New Black.” In her memoir, Cox recounts what it took to get her there.

• Trash!

  a Garbageman's Story

  Paré-Poupart, Simon,

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• View From the East Wing

  a Memoir

  Biden, Jill,

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  The former first lady Jill Biden writes about her life inside the White House — and her husband’s stunning decision not to seek re-election.

• What Conservatives Believe

  Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience

  Pence, Mike, 1959-

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  The former vice president outlines his vision for the future of American conservatism in this account disavowing “the temptations of big-government populism.”

• The Wreck of the Mentor

  a True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

  Dolin, Eric Jay,

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  The author of “Black Flags, Blue Waters” turns to the tale of an American whaling ship whose 11 shipwrecked survivors were held captive by a Micronesian tribe in the 1830s.

• The Yahoo Boys

  Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers

  Barragán, Carlos,

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  After his mother fell for an email scam, Barragán, a reporter-researcher at The New York Times, booked a flight to Lagos, Nigeria, and tracked the swindler via IP address. What he found was a local network of thousands of con artists, each caught…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aging Out

  An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old

  Schiller, Lucy,

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  Following the death of her grandmother during the Covid pandemic, Schiller investigated what it means to grow old in America, challenging her own beliefs about aging along the way.

• ALL THAT'S UNSEEN: AN APPALACHIAN MEMOIR

  Hardcover

  Hackney, Emilee

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  Hackney, an eighth-generation Appalachian, details her upbringing in the coal-mining hollers and Pentecostal churches of southwestern Virginia, including an early marriage that went darkly wrong.

• BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO

  Hardcover

  Jacobsen, Annie

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  In her new book, the author of “Nuclear War: A Scenario” turns to biological warfare, imagining the dystopian fallout of a global infection with the potential to collapse human society.

• Catch the Devil

  a True Story of Murder and Deception on the Gulf Coast

  Colloff, Pamela,

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  The dubious testimonies of a con man help put several men behind bars and one on death row for a crime another man admitted to committing in this book from Colloff, an investigative journalist for ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine.

• LIBERATION SUMMER: THE MOMENT THAT CHANGED THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN POLITICS

  Hardcover

  McElya, Micki

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  One weekend in the summer of 1968, two very different groups protested the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.: the Miss Black America pageant, and the women’s liberation movement. McElya traces the road to that galvanizing weekend, with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Knives Will Save Us

  Dispatches From a White Mountain Apache Chef

  Craig, Nephi,

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  Craig recounts how he went from an Arizona reservation kid to an esteemed chef — starting with the felony arrest at 18 that nearly sent him to prison, and the judge who offered him a different path.

• RISE ABOVE: A MEMOIR

  Hardcover

  Schnipper, Matthew

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  Schnipper’s memoir details his seismic grief after the devastating sudden death of his 1-year-old son Renzo in December 2021.

• Sisters of the Midnight Sun

  a Murder in Arctic Alaska

  Stevens, Rebecca Wright,

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  Stevens, a public defender, moved to a remote area of Alaska after her husband died. When two sisters were murdered, she was assigned to defend the prime suspect — a case that threw her into the deep end of the insular Indigenous community where she…Read moreRead more of this annotation