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Finish What We Started

By Isaac Arnsdorf

Nonfiction

New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Pick Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author "Entertaining, enlightening and disturbing." - Ira Glass The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the…

Financial Feminist

By Tori Dunlap

Business

An instant New York Times bestseller From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K, an inclusive money management guide to all things money—from managing debt to investing and voting with your dollars Tori Dunlap…

Finance for the People

By Paco de Leon

Business

An illustrated, practical guide to navigating your financial life, no matter your financial situation "a potent mix of deeply practical and wonderfully empathetic" —Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial "one of the most approachable financial books I've ever read." —Refinery…

Fat Leonard

By Craig Whitlock

Biographies and Memoirs

This story of one of the most significant public corruption scandals in American history chronicles how a Malaysian defense contractor defrauded the U.S. Navy of tens of millions of dollars and put our nation's security at risk.

Fatal Charms

By Dominick Dunne

Biographies and Memoirs

Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar…

Farming While Black

By Leah Penniman

Advice and How-To

Recipient of the 28th Heinz Awards for the Economy: Leah Penniman James Beard Foundation Leadership Award 2019: Leah Penniman Choice Reviews, Outstanding Academic Title “An extraordinary book…part agricultural guide, part revolutionary manifesto.”—VOGUE Named a “Best Book on Sustainable Living and…

Fall of Civilizations

By Paul Cooper

History

"A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."?The Times Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how…

Escape from Freedom

By Erich Fromm

General Nonfiction

A New York Times bestseller about overcoming the profound ills of modern society by a legendary social psychologist, the author of Escape from Freedom. One of Fromm’s main interests was to analyze social systems and their impact on the mental…