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Number one New York Times bestseller • National Book Award winner • Named one of Time’s ten best nonfiction books of the decade • Pulitzer Prize finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist • One of Oprah’s “Books That Help Me Through” • Now an HBO original special event. Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone).

Beryl Potter was a reserved working-class mother of three living a decent life, or so it seemed, when a harmless slip and fall marked the unravelling of everything that she had known about herself and the world around her. Over the course of six years, she endured unimaginable pain. As doctors raced to save her life, her limbs and eyesight were taken from her one by one. In the span of a few years, she lost nearly half her body, her financial security, her home, her husband, and any semblance of a recognizable future.

Drawing from the experiences of real-life giving circles, philanthropy leader Hali Lee challenges our traditional understanding of giving, showing how everyday people can take back philanthropy from the billionaires and make the world a better place. When you think of philanthropy, what do you envision? Uber wealthy donors? Extravagant galas? In recent decades, philanthropy has come to be seen as something exclusive to those with an abundance of resources. But giving doesn't have to mean donating millions of dollars.

An instant New York Times bestseller. In his travels through Israel and Gaza, #1 international bestselling author Douglas Murray has seen the best and the worst humanity has to offer—and he has no trouble choosing a side. Murray is not Jewish, and before October 7, he had never lived in Israel. However, he objects to being lied to, and Israel has been on the receiving end of the biggest, deepest, longest lies in history.

"Harrowing and insightful... A profound work about the Black experience and white oppression."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "This work is vitally important and essential to understanding the magnitude of the impact of racism and violence."—Library Journal (starred review) "Gripping, thought-provoking, and personal—I Am Nobody's Slave will inspire discussion and action in response to its powerful message of inner healing and social justice."—Booklist.

A Best Book of 2018 Selection * NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today * A Best Feminist Book Selection * Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, Bitch. Rage Becomes Her is an "utterly eye opening" (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities of female rage. As women, we've been urged for so long to bottle up our anger, letting it corrode our bodies and minds in ways we don't even realize.

A lot has changed in 25 years. A quarter-century after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light—this time in an immersive audio format that transports you, the listener, directly inside of each riveting story. Why is Miami... Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony?

Founder of advocacy organization Diversability and creator of the viral Anti-Ableism Series on TikTok, Tiffany Yu takes readers on a revelatory examination of disability—how to unpack your biases and build a disability-inclusive and accessible world. As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD and a permanent arm injury sustained at age nine, Tiffany Yu is well aware of the intersections of identity that affect us all.

Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work. Finalist, 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Finalist, 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Tanya Talaga, the bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among Indigenous Peoples—youth suicide. "Talaga's research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising.

Read by the full cast of authors. When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? Shortlisted for Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year. "Engrossing . . . fascinating . . . courageous" —Observer. In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the "traditional submissiveness" of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim nor female?