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The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
The Confidence Game
The Social Animal
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
Empire of Shadows
The Montana Heritage: An Anthology of Historical Essays
The Patch
This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
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On Her Own Terms

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Evil
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Killings
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Mudlarking
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
The Witches Are Coming
The Yellow House
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
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Municipal Dreams

Information Hunters
Running with Sherman How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-Tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America
The Power Worshippers
American Poison
Magdalena
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
The Cold Vanish
Billionaire Wilderness
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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The Premonition

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Good Girls
Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Until Proven Safe
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
Our town
Trailed
Virology
The Viral Underclass
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
River of Lost Souls
The Man Who Thought He Owned Water: On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Poverty, by America
Endure
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
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Trail of the Lost

In A Sunburned Country
False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Breaking the Age Code
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Going to Maine: All the Ways to Fall on the Appalachian Trail
Rice, Noodle, Fish
The Countryside
Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
The Bone Whisperers: Two Women Scientists and their Work to Connect Lost Lives in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Postwar
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain
Coming into the Country
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Stolen Pride
Book and Dagger
My Father's Fortune
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women
Travels in Siberia
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