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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
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The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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Hamlet Globe to Globe: Two Years, 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play
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The Invention of Angela Carter
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
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Priestdaddy
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Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
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