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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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Lorne
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Who Better Than You?
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Prentis Hemphill
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Rachel Laryea, PhD
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Jonathan Gluck
A Field Guide to the Subterranean
Justin Hocking
The Most Dangerous Man in Britain?
Tony Benn
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At Hell’s Gate
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A Remarkable Man
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Christina Hillsberg
Reap the Whirlwind
Peter Houlahan
Becoming Baba
Aymann Ismail
Sharks Don’t Sink
Jasmin Graham
Proof of Life
Jennifer Pastiloff
Nice Girls Don’t Win
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You Wanna Be on Top?
Sarah Hartshorne
Radical Tenderness
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Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull
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Sophie Elmhirst
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Chris O'Leary
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Stay True
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Feel Free
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Nadia Murad
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Theodore Rosengarten
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
In Such Good Company
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
Ramin Ganeshram
The Black Count
Tom Reiss
The Passage of Power
Robert A. Caro
Stag’s Leap
Sharon Olds
George F. Kennan
John Lewis Gaddis
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Jane Fonda
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William Shatner and Chris Regan
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Betty White
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