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The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic by Stephen Vladeck

The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Stephen Vladeck

352 pages • hardcover • 2023

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nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Sarah Deer

The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America

Sarah Deer

232 pages • paperback • 2015

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nonfiction feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Nikole Hannah-Jones

623 pages • hardcover • 2021

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nonfiction essays history poetry politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Monuments and How They Were Built by

The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Monuments and How They Were Built

304 pages • hardcover

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nonfiction design history challenging informative medium-paced
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Camilla Townsend

336 pages • hardcover • 2019

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nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

319 pages • hardcover • 2014

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nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
This Place of Promise: A Historian's Perspective on 200 Years of Missouri History by Gary R. Kremer
This Place of Promise: A Historian's Perspective on 200 Years of Missouri History
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Gary R. Kremer

This Place of Promise: A Historian's Perspective on 200 Years of Missouri History

Gary R. Kremer

328 pages • hardcover

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

246 pages • hardcover • 2019

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fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism by Erwin Chemerinsky

Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism

Erwin Chemerinsky

264 pages • hardcover

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nonfiction
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

The Art Thief

Michael Finkel

222 pages • hardcover • 2023

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nonfiction biography true crime adventurous informative fast-paced