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We All Want to Change the World by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern
Jacinda Ardern


A sweeping look back at the protest movements that changed America from activist and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with personal and historical insights into lessons they can teach us today.

From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world’s youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation of leaders.

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Poets Square
Courtney Gustafson
This American Woman
Zarna Garg
Matriarch: Oprah’s Book Club
Tina Knowles
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Joan Didion
Miracles and Wonder
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I Am Maria
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When the Going Was Good
Graydon Carter
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Raising Hare
Chloe Dalton
I’ll Have What She’s Having
Chelsea Handler
All or Nothing
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones
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The Cost of Being Undocumented
Antero Garcia and Alix Dick
In This Body, In This Lifetime
Sozen Nagasawa Roshi
Winnie and Nelson
Jonny Steinberg
John Hancock
Willard Sterne Randall
The Friday Afternoon Club
Griffin Dunne
What It Takes to Heal
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The Aviator and the Showman
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The Rent Collectors
Jesse Katz
How to Be a Living Thing
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The Chancellor’s Mansion
Jamie Arty
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Aatish Taseer
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Simon Boas
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A. Scott Berg
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Stay True
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Carol Burnett
The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher
Negroland
Margo Jefferson
Diary of a Mad Diva
Joan Rivers
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Susan Sheehan
FutureChefs
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The Black Count
Tom Reiss
The Passage of Power
Robert A. Caro
Stag’s Leap
Sharon Olds
George F. Kennan
John Lewis Gaddis
Prime Time
Jane Fonda
Shatner Rules
William Shatner and Chris Regan
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Betty White
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Rebecca Skloot
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