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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of...  Nonfiction
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment  Nonfiction
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence  Nonfiction
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco  Nonfiction
Project Hail Mary Project Hail Mary  Fiction
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945‒2006 Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in...  Nonfiction
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet  Nonfiction
Ready Player One Ready Player One  Fiction
Rosie Revere, Engineer Rosie Revere, Engineer  Fiction
Sacrilegion Sacrilegion  Fiction
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430‒1950 Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430‒1950  Nonfiction
Schooled Schooled  Fiction
Scorched Grace Scorched Grace  Fiction
Shackleton Shackleton  Nonfiction
Shelter Shelter  Fiction
Shubeik Lubeik Shubeik Lubeik  Fiction
Six of Crows Six of Crows  Fiction
Skip Beat! Skip Beat!  Fiction
Social Justice Fallacies Social Justice Fallacies  Nonfiction
Some Desperate Glory Some Desperate Glory  Fiction
Space Case Space Case  Fiction
Station Eleven Station Eleven  Fiction
Strange Practice Strange Practice  Fiction
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the...  Nonfiction
Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success  Nonfiction