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Fortune magazine author's behind-the-scenes story.
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The well-known historian has collected some of his most important speeches in a brief volume.
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Landmark classic that explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition.
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True story of the original American mafia and the Italian-born NYPD cop on their trail.
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Non-fiction research-based, and controversial, take on World War II Nazis.
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Comedian tells the story of his childhood in South Africa.
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Uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty.
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Watch TED talk of author on the David and Goliath fable

Joyce Meyer combines biblical principles with personal experiences.
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Graphic novel.
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2018 L.A. Times Fiction Book winner
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It's raining bad data, half-truths, and lies. Author Levitin shows how to distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions, and outright lies from reliable information.
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The rise and fall of influential financier and philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein.
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Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel.
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History of discoveries about the role of genes.
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Portrait of the American Revolution top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring.
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Posthumously published reflections by the famous neurologist.
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Life lessons and honest reality from comedian.
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Author Turow (Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof), the much-practiced legal proceduralist, steps onto Joseph Campbell turf in his latest mystery.
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True crime account about the race to catch a 1950's New York serial bomber, which gave birth to a new science called criminal profiling.
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True account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage citizens, from New York Times best-selling author and staff writer at The New Yorker.
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A new thriller introducing driven young detective Renée Ballard, who works the night shift in Hollywood, trying to prove herself in the LAPD.
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Crime novel set in 1950's Atlanta amidst the racial tensions and changing history.
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Eleven male/female pairings of best-selling "thriller" authors craft stories that star both writers' well-known protagonists.
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Compulsively readable legal thriller set in the New York County Courthouse.
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An intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent.
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WWII Allied division mission to track down European art looted by the Nazis.
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This Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction book combines incisive legal analysis with insider details.
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Family dysfunction at its best —full of heart, humor, and jealous siblings.
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Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing behind-the-scenes take on the first Star Wars movie.
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The third in Kwan's trilogy, this novel is about the Shang-Young family who are riven by fortune.
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Astronaut author puts you inside the suit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity.
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New York Times bestseller on leadership.
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Collection of one-liners from host of The Late Show
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Debut novel of suspense about a missing girl in Arizona.
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New York Times Bestseller based on the Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education commencement address, "The Art of Asking (and answering) Good Questions".
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Historical mystery that follows a 25-year-old scholar and alchemist through Prague.
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New York Times best-selling author draws on interviews with eighty women of diverse backgrounds to deconstruct the ways women friends talk.
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Advising the President: Attorney General Robert H. Jackson and Franklin D. Roosevelt by William Casto

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American Justice 2018: The Shifting Supreme Court by Todd Ruger

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Between Rights and Responsibilities: A Fundamental Debate by Stephan Parmentier

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Beyond the Borders of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West by Katrina Jagodinsky and Pablo Mitchell

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Big Copyright Versus the People: How Major Content Providers Are Destroying Creativity and How to Stop Them by Martin Skladany

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The Clamor of Lawyers: The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession by Peter Charles Hoffer

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The Clash of Capitalisms?: Chinese Companies in the United States by Ji Li

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Class Actions in Canada: the promise and reality of access to justice by Jasminka Kalajdzic

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Congress and the War on Terror: Making Policy for the Long War by Darren Wheeler

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Controversies in American Federalism and Public Policy edited by Christopher P. Banks

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Corporations Are People Too: (and they should act like it) by Kent Greenfield

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The Dynamic Free Speech Clause: Free Speech and Its Relation to Other Constitutional Rights by Timothy Zick

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An Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights Infringement by Koji Domon

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Extraordinary Rendition: Addressing the Challenges of Accountability edited by Elspeth Guild

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Fairness, Inc.: the origins (and billion-dollar bonuses) of Rule 10b-5 as America's insider trading prohibition by J. Scott Colesanti

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Full Court Press: How Pat Summitt, a High School Basketball Player, and a Legal Team Changed the Game by Bill Haltom and Amanda Swanson

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Global Environmental Change and Innovation in International Law by Neil Craik

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Governing Extractive Industries: politics, histories, ideas by Anthony Bebbington

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The Human Right to a Healthy Environment edited by John Knox

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Human Rights as Political Imaginary by José Julián López

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Human Rights in Thick and Thin Societies: Universality Without Uniformity by Seth Kaplan

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In-House Lawyers' Ethics: Institutional Logics, Legal Risk and the Tournament of Influence

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Last resort : the financial crisis and the future of bailouts by Eric A. Posner

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The Law of Failure: a tour through the wilds of American business insolvency law by Stephen Lubben

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Licensing Myths & Mastery: Why Most Ideas Don’t Work And What To Do About It by William Seidel

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The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility by Erin Kelly

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Many Nations under Many Gods: Public Land Management and American Indian Sacred Sites by Todd Morman

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Mapping American Criminal Law: Variations Across the 50 states by Paul H. Robinson

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Marbury v. Madison: the origins and legacy of judicial review by William E. Nelson

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Murder on Shades Mountain by Melanie S. Morrison

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Natural Resources and Human Rights: An Appraisal by Jérémie Gilbert

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The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law edited by Rochelle Dreyfuss & Justine Pila

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Perceptions of a Polarized Court: How Division among Justices Shapes the Supreme Court's Public Image by Michael Salamone

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Perspectives on Predictive Coding and Other Advanced Search Methods for the Legal Practitioner by Jason Baron

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Policy Success in an Age of Gridlock: How the Toxic Substances Control Act was Finally Reformed by Lawrence Rothenberg

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Privacy's Blueprint: the battle to control the design of new technologies by Woodrow Hartzog

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Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy by Kit Bakke

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Public Rights: Copyright's Public Domains by Graham Greenleaf

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The Role of Circuit Courts in the Formation of U.S. Law in the Early Republic: following Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, Story, and Thompson

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Scoundrels in Law: The Trials of Howe and Hummel, Lawyers to the Gangsters, Cops, Starlets, and Rakes that Made the Gilded Age by Cait Murphy

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Senate Procedure and Practice by Martin Gold

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The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy by Chris Thornhill

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Strategic Networking for Introverts, Extroverts, and Everyone in Between By Carol Schiro Greenwald

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The Trademark Guide: How You Can Protect and Profit from Trademarks by Lee Wilson

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Uncivil Warriors: the lawyers' Civil War by Peter Charles Hoffer

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The US Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority by Michael Dichio

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The Uses of the Dead: The Early Modern Development of Cy-Près Doctrine by Caroline Sherman

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What Justices Want: goals and personality on the US Supreme Court by Matthew E.K. Hall

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The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History by John B. Nann

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