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Atlantic Editions

The Latecomer
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Happy-Go-Lucky
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Stuck Rubber Baby 25th Anniversary Edition
Under the Glacier
The Narrowboat Summer
The Perishing
Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club)
Dead Collections
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
When We Cease to Understand the World
Where the Wild Ladies Are
Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
The Friend (National Book Award Winner)
Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--And How to Set Them Right
Counting Descent
Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
Turned on: A Biography of Henry Rollins
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
The Happiness Project, Tenth Anniversary Edition: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and
Better Than Before: What I Learned about Making and Breaking Habits--To Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Untamed
Your Turn: How to Be an Adult
The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
This Is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods That Fight Depression, Anxiety, Ptsd, Ocd, Adhd, and More
Work Better Together: How to Cultivate Strong Relationships to Maximize Well-Being and Boost Bottom Lines
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-Of-Age Crisis--And How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--And How to Set Them Right
First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School
The Memo: Five Rules for Your Economic Liberation
From Prison Cells to PhD: It Is Never Too Late to Do Good
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
How Google Works
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers Here Exhalation
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Summer Reading Guide 2021

Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams (16pt Large Print Edition) The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
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In Pursuit of Happiness 2021

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--And How to Set Them Right
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix It
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Be Antiracist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)
The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
So You Want to Talk about Race
Men We Reaped
How to Be an Antiracist
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Antiracist Baby Board Book
The Full Plate: Flavor-Filled, Easy Recipes for Families with No Time and a Lot to Do
The American Crisis: What Went Wrong. How We Recover.
The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner)
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Clean: The New Science of Skin
We Are Called to Be a Movement
Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook
Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club)
Rage
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities
How to Be an Antiracist
How to Raise an Antiracist
Lynching in North Carolina: A History, 1865-1941
The Race Track: How the Myth of Equal Opportunity Defeats Racial Justice
Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
Dear Martin
A Strange Loop
Tracy Flick Can't Win
Uphill: A Memoir
Making a Scene
On Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choice