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Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement by Wendy L. Rouse

Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement

Wendy L. Rouse

288 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

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Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren

11 hours, 37 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake

MaddAddam #1

Margaret Atwood

400 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

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No More Police: A Case for Abolition by Andrea J. Ritchie, Mariame Kaba

No More Police: A Case for Abolition

Andrea J. Ritchie, Mariame Kaba

382 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal

Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

Elie Mystal

281 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense by Martha McCaughey

Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense

Martha McCaughey

288 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

Kevin M. Kruse

384 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

14 hours, 40 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

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Weird but Normal: Essays on the Awkward, Uncomfortable, Surprisingly Regular Parts of Being Human by Mia Mercado

Weird but Normal: Essays on the Awkward, Uncomfortable, Surprisingly Regular Parts of Being Human

Mia Mercado

272 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Amanda Montell

309 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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