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WINNER OF A 2024 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023* Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eigs King is the first major biography in decades of th...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023* Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eigs King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. an...

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BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2017. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR. WINNER OF THE PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING. THE TIME...

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This detailed, authoritative account of one of the most important seasons in baseball history chronicles the day when, in 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and played first base for the Dodgers. "Opening Day" is being publish...

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Drawing on thousands of pages of recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone's handwritten personal letters, "New York Times"-bestselling author Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the na...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023* Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eigs King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. an...

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In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubi...

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"A master storyteller" (Ken Burns), New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first full biography of the civil rights icon in decades, mixing revelatory and exhaustive research with a brisk and accessible narr...

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Hailed as "the most compelling account of [Martin Luther] King's life in a generation" by the Washington Post , the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller is now adapted for young readers in this new standard biography of the most famous civi...

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A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardNamed one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post | Chicago Tribune | TimeA New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 | One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2023One...

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We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campai...

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We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campai...

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Drawing on hundreds of new interviews and previously unpublished letters, this authoritative, comprehensive biography of New York Yankee Lou Gehrig--the "Iron Horse"--reveals one of the greatest baseball players of all time as readers ha...

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The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.Lou Gehrig was a baseball legendthe Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was end...

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This detailed, authoritative account of one of the most important seasons in baseball history chronicles the day when, in 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and played first base for the Dodgers. "Opening Day" is being publish...

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Lola, with help from Grampa Ed and neighbor Gabriel, figures out a way to show the boys at school that they should be letting girls play soccer with them at recess.

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Lola's grandfather does the best pigtails ever. But her principal isn't so sure.

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Lola and her friends want to play soccer. The boys don't want them to. The girls are not only good players, they're also strategic, and end up scoring for the team.

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Lola wants a dog, but she's got some convincing to do.

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Lola wants a dog, but she's got some convincing to do.

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A fourth book in the Lola Jones series about this energetic, compassionate, and funny third-grader who manages to teach the reader as she herself learns not only the words to a traditional winter song, but about life.

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A fourth book in the Lola Jones series about this energetic, compassionate, and funny third-grader who manages to teach the reader as she herself learns not only the words to a traditional winter song, but about life.

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A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Time A New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2023 One of...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing | Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year | The definitive biography of an American icon, from a best-selling author with unique access to Ali's inn...

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The real story of how the federal government finally apprehended and convicted Americas most notorious criminal, Al Capone.Drawing on recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capones handwritten personal letters, New Y...

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In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubi...

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BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2017. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR. WINNER OF THE PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING. THE TIME...

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ANEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OFBARACKOBAMA'SFAVOURITE BOOKS OF2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig'sKing is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the firs...

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A little over a year ago, Darcy Wakefield was a single, 33-year-old, athletic, workaholic English professor, a vegetarian who had never had a serious health problem or injury. Then she was diagnosed with ALS, and her world turned upside down. I Re...

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