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Living with the Monks
Jesse Itzler

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Adam Makos, Larry Alexander

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Phil Knight

Goebbels: Nazi Master of Illusion: The Destructive Power of Joseph Goebbels's Propaganda and the Holocaust
Daniela Ozacky Stern

The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Margalit Fox

Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II
Daniel James Brown

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann

Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World
Jack Weatherford

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
Patrik Svensson

Amoralman: A True Story and Other Lies
Derek DelGaudio

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford

I Would Leave Me If I Could.: A Collection of Poetry
Halsey

The Story of B (Ishmael Series)
Daniel Quinn

Ishmael: A Novel
Daniel Quinn

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb

Letters of Note Art Edition

The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Dr. Edith Eva Eger

1984 (Essential Orwell Classics)
George Orwell

Grant
Ron Chernow

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah

All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel
Elan Mastai

Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
Keith O'Brien

Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?: Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock
Gregory Thornbury

Like Brothers
Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass

I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
Hafiz

The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Jalal al-Din Rumi

I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons
Kevin Hart

Unfamiliar Fishes
Sarah Vowell

Sorry for Your Troubles
Pádraig Ó Tuama

The Knowledge: A Too Close To True Novel
Steven Pressfield

Wildflowers in the Median: A Restorative Journey into Healing, Justice, and Joy
Agnes Furey

Refusing Heaven
Jack Gilbert

Ready Player One: A Novel
Ernest Cline

Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty

Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Ben Macintyre

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown

Life of Pi
Yann Martel

Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution
John Gribbin

Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me: A Memoir... of Sorts
Ian Morgan Cron

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)
Daniel L. Everett

Open: An Autobiography
Andre Agassi

Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections
Patrick Smith

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

Skirmish: Poems
Dobby Gibson

Elegy on Toy Piano (Pitt Poetry Series)
Dean Young

American Gods: Author's Preferred Text
Neil Gaiman

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson