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Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century (Paperback)

By Nate Chinen

$13.56

ISBN: 9781101873496

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Published: Vintage - July 23rd, 2019

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Chinen’s book is so very welcome as books about contemporary jazz are few and far between, but also because it’s terrific. Chinen puts into context each of the various directions players are taking improvisational music today with a studied thoughtfulness based upon careful listening and deep historical knowledge. The discographies bookmarking each chapter as well as his list of essential 21st century albums are good guideposts for anyone’s future listening. 

Dale 

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro (Paperback)

By Rachel Slade

$14.39

ISBN: 9780062699879

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Published: Ecco - May 14th, 2019

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A riveting, and important account of a recent maritime tragedy. Rachel Slade's book will leave you wanting to tell everyone you know that it is a must read. 

 

Megan

Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure (Paperback)

By Amy Kaufman

$12.80

ISBN: 9781101985915

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Published: Dutton - February 5th, 2019

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Why are so many people obsessed with this show? Amy Kaufman dives headfirst into the extensive production behind the The Bachelor, revealing all the secrets that create the reality TV fantasy. If you're a fan (or just a hate-watcher), you should pick up this book.

Rebecca

Horizon (Hardcover)

By Barry Lopez

$30.00

ISBN: 9780394585826

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Published: Knopf - March 19th, 2019

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This book is not for everyone though it is my kind of Summer reading. Its length and rich prose requires close and patient attention. In a sense it’s a summation of Lopez’s lifetime of travels to the distant corners of our planet documenting the interactions of myriad human cultures and the natural world. Terry Tempest Williams recently called it “a masterpiece”. Indeed.

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Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations (Hardcover)

By Mira Jacob

$30.00

ISBN: 9780399589041

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Published: One World - March 26th, 2019

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This hard-hitting graphic memoir is framed around a son's questions about how the world works, but quickly goes much deeper as Mira explores topics of sexuality, politics, prejudice, and the reality of living as a person of color in a post-2016 USA. Heart-aching and fantastic.

Rebecca

A Book About Whales (Hardcover)

By Andrea Antinori

$16.99

ISBN: 9781419735028

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Published: Harry N. Abrams - May 14th, 2019

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You may know that whales are mammals, but did you know they evolved from land mammals? Did you know that the world’s largest whale, the Blue Whale, is 98 feet long, and the smallest, the Pygmy Right Whale, is only 21 feet long? (That’s the size of an adult female Great White Shark.) I know, so many cool facts, and this book is full of them! Along with great illustrations, it’s hard to put down.

Robin 

The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm (Hardcover)

By John Connell

$25.00

ISBN: 9781328577993

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - May 7th, 2019

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The Farmer’s Son is an unflinching yet tender memoir about small livestock farming way of life in rural Ireland that almost disappeared if not in Ireland than certainly in our own country. While there’s nothing romantic about such a hardscrabble life Connell’s account of his careful and humane husbandry is profoundly moving.

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback)

By Ibram X. Kendi

$19.99

ISBN: 9781568585987

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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017

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So much of what seemed chaotic about American history and especially contemporary American politics snapped into clarity for me when I read this book. Kendi’s ideas absolutely changed the way I understand our current crisis, as well as the forces of racism and antiracism that have shaped our culture and society.

Josh

The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue (Paperback)

By Alexandra Kimball

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ISBN: 9781552453858

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Published: Coach House Books - April 30th, 2019

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In essays written over the course of multiple rounds of IVF and surrogacy, Kimball points out how most feminist thought dismisses or ignores the problems of infertility -- and who loses out when infertility is seen as an elite white women's condition. This version of reproductive choice, on the other hand, acknowledges that having the choice to bear a child is just as important as having the choice not to.

Sarah

The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus (Paperback)

By Ryan Jacobs

$16.00

ISBN: 9780451495693

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Published: Clarkson Potter - June 4th, 2019

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Sabotage, intrigue, murder. Over a mushroom? The Truffle Underground is one of the most unbelievable stories I have ever read about the criminal underworld stealing, faking, and even killing over truffles. This astonishing book will shock you, horrify you, but, be careful. These delicacies have a way of luring people under their spell and not letting go.

Matthew