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Popper Selections Popper Selections  Nonfiction
Poverty, by America Poverty, by America  Nonfiction
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity  Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity   Nonfiction
Public Religions in the Modern World Public Religions in the Modern World  Nonfiction
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945‒2006 Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in...  Nonfiction
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in...  Nonfiction
Small Things Like These  Small Things Like These   Fiction
Some Desperate Glory Some Desperate Glory  Fiction
Station Eleven Station Eleven  Fiction
Strange Practice Strange Practice  Fiction
Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success  Nonfiction
Summer Summer  Fiction
Tastes Like War: A Memoir Tastes Like War: A Memoir  Nonfiction
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values  Nonfiction
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is...  Nonfiction
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World  Nonfiction
The Bookmakers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives  The Bookmakers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives   Nonfiction
The Complete Calvin & Hobbes The Complete Calvin & Hobbes  Fiction
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of...  Nonfiction
The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate  Nonfiction