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Song for the unraveling of the world : stories

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Go to sleep (I miss you) : cartoons from the fog of new parenthood

X-Men milestones. Operation zero tolerance

Batman. City of Bane : the complete collection

Justice League of America, the nail : the complete collection

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. The Beast of Vargu and others

A thief among the trees : an ember in the ashes graphic novel

Award-winning nonfiction, 2018-2020

Until the end of time : mind, matter, and our search for meaning in an evolving universe

Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee

The man who ran Washington : the life and times of James A. Baker III

Leaving the witness : exiting a religion and finding a life

Down from the mountain : the life and death of a grizzly bear

The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations

The dreamt land : chasing water and dust across California

She said : breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement

Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town

Volume control : hearing in a deafening world

Syria's secret library : reading and redemption in a town under siege

The less people know about us : a mystery of betrayal, family secrets, and stolen identity

The ice at the end of the world : an epic journey into Greenland's buried past and our perilous future

The contender : the story of Marlon Brando

Reaganland : America's right turn, 1976-1980

The writer's library : the authors you love on the books that changed their lives

The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age

The lady from the black lagoon : Hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of Milicent Patrick

Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine

Kochland : the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America

Beneath the tamarind tree : a story of courage, family, and the lost schoolgirls of Boko Haram

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The Marches : a borderland journey between England and Scotland

Eighty days : Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world

Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania

A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home

A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide

Off the rails : a train trip through life

The last wild men of Borneo : a true story of death and treasure

Jupiters Travels : four years around the world on a triumph

Braver than you think : around the world on the trip of my (mother's) lifetime

Coming back alive : the true story of the most harrowing search and rescue mission ever attempted on Alaska's high seas

Alone : lost overboard in the Indian Ocean

Border : a journey to the edge of Europe

Into the storm : two ships, a deadly hurricane, and an epic battle for survival

Wild by nature : from Siberia to Australia, three years alone in the wilderness on foot

Greek to me : adventures of the comma queen

Around the world in eighty wines : exploring wine one country at a time

Eating Vịêt Nam : dispatches from a blue plastic table

Rough magic : riding the world's loneliest horse race

A Paris year : my day-to-day adventures in the most romantic city in the world

Appalachian odyssey : a 28-year hike on America's trail

Kings of the Yukon : one summer paddling across the far north

Even darkness sings : from Auschwitz to Hiroshima : finding hope in the saddest places on Earth

Leave the lipstick, take the iguana : funny travel stories and strange packing tips

In the kingdom of ice : the grand and terrible polar voyage of the U.S.S. Jeannette

Hell's traces : one murder, two families, thirty-three Holocaust memorials

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