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“Voices of Freedom” is a stirring and deeply personal window into one of the most pivotal movements in American history. Compiled by Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer, this oral history serves as a companion to the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize, weaving together firsthand accounts from activists, leaders, and everyday people who lived
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What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? by Marianne Schnall is part thought-provoking analysis, part rallying cry, and part eye-opening conversation. Through interviews with a wide range of thought leaders, activists, politicians, and cultural icons, Schnall explores the barriers holding women back from the highest office in the land and what it will
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Dark academia at its finest, The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a mesmerising and deeply unsettling tale of privilege, obsession, and moral decay. If you’ve ever fantasised about joining an elite, secretive group of intellectuals on a picturesque college campus, consider this a chilling warning wrapped in lush prose and philosophical musings. Tartt’s debut
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If Wuthering Heights were a person, it wouldn’t be your charming best friend or a steady confidant. It would be the moody, tempestuous figure standing on the moors during a thunderstorm, glaring into the distance and daring you to approach. Emily Brontë’s only novel is a wild, gothic masterpiece, a story of passion, vengeance, and
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Ah, Emma. If Jane Austen’s novels were a group of friends at a party, Emma would be the self-assured, slightly meddlesome one who insists on matchmaking everyone in the room, only to realize halfway through that maybe she doesn’t know best after all. It’s a witty, charming, and surprisingly modern exploration of self-awareness, relationships, and
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If someone ever tells you that War and Peace is “just a long book about Russian history,” politely smile, hand them a copy, and watch their mind explode. Because Leo Tolstoy’s sprawling epic is so much more than its reputation, it’s a literary buffet serving up philosophy, romance, war, politics, and a masterclass on human
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If you’ve ever dreamed of inheriting a billionaire’s fortune out of nowhere, Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ The Inheritance Games is your perfect fantasy—except it’s filled with puzzles, secrets, and plenty of family drama that might make you think twice about those billions. This YA mystery is Knives Out meets Gossip Girl, with a splash of Escape
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Nancy Goldstone’s The Rival Queens is a juicy, drama-packed tale of political ambition, betrayal, and family dysfunction that will leave you wondering how on earth two people with the same royal bloodline could hate each other this much. It’s a wild ride through 16th-century France, chronicling the deadly feud between Catherine de’ Medici, the iron-willed
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Jacob Kushner’s White Terror is not just a book about crimes and conspiracies, it is a full-blown investigation into the undercurrent of far-right violence in modern-day Germany. If you think you will expect a quiet and distant recount of some fringe neo-Nazi groups, think again. Kushner takes you into the heart of a terrifying reality
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