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A Millennium in North America A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling thei...

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking ...

Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People From the National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelator...

Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is...

The Big Hot Book of Death Based on the popular podcast, Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American culture of dea...

Stephen Fry's Greek Myths, Book #4 The legendary Stephen Fry retells the adventures of Odysseus for the fourth and final installment in his interna...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD A "visionary" (The Guardian) exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's b...

Women in the Greek Myths The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women a...

Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution...

The Rivalry That Shaped NASCAR Get the detailed inside story on the legendary rivalry that helped propel NASCAR from regional curiosity to national...

A Slice of History From Geisel Award-winning author Greg Pizzoli comes a hilarious and mouth-watering history of pizza. Do YOU like PIZZA? Because ...

How One Ancient Language Went Global The enthralling story of how today's largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world's population, de...

Spirituality Beyond the Binary in Myth, Story, and Practice A liberating exploration of the queer divine in deities and figures of myth and legend ...

A Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints, and Queerness Through the Ages Featuring 50 profiles and select B&W illustrated portraits, Heroes of...

The Naked Truth about Hot Dogs A Best Book of the Year from NPR and Vulture. Featured in: NPR Weekend Edition - Bon Appétit - Oprah Daily - Glamour...

A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past A pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video game. ...

The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices...

Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The harrowing story of one of the great feats of...

History & Tradition of Brats on the Back Roads An Iowa Tradition Like No Other. In the 1970s, there were around 450 local meat lockers througho...

The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie A vivid portrait of the American prairie, which rivals the rainforest in its b...

Victoria's Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon The story of how Victoria's Secret skyrocketed from a tiny chain of boutiques to a retail ...

The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) A raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore's growing pains during t...

How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during Wo...

An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color From the acclaimed novelist, a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal,...