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Silver, sword, and stone : three crucibles in the Latin American story

The trial of Lizzie Borden : a true story

Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA

The uninhabitable earth : life after warming

Margaret Thatcher : the authorized biography

A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century

Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power

Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive

The Queen : the forgotten life behind an American myth

Black wave : Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the forty-year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion, and collective memory in the Middle East

The outlaw ocean : journeys across the last untamed frontier

The crowded hour : Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the dawn of the American century

Wild game : my mother, her lover, and me

Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town

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

The mastermind : drugs, empire, murder, betrayal

The color of compromise : the truth about the American church's complicity in racism

The biggest bluff : how I learned to pay attention, master myself, and win

The volunteer : one man, an underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz

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

The saddest words : William Faulkner's Civil War

Rainbow relatives : real-world stories and advice on how to talk to kids about LGBTQ+ families and friends

Devils, lusts and strange desires : the life of Patricia Highsmith

Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me

Pride : the story of the first openly gay Navy SEAL

The deviant's war : the homosexual vs. the United States of America

Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender teen)

At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life

I've seen the future and I'm not going : the art scene and downtown New York in the 1980s

Body counts : a memoir of politics, sex, AIDS, and survival

Becoming Nicole : the transformation of an American family

Raising my rainbow : adventures in raising a slightly effeminate, possibly gay, totally fabulous son

Hiding out : a memoir of drugs, deception, and double lives

The book of Matt : hidden truths about the murder of Matthew Shepard

Whatever... love is love : questioning the labels we give ourselves

Motherland : a memoir of love, loathing, and longing

The whole lesbian sex book : a passionate guide for all of us

LGBTQ : the survival guide for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens

Last call : a true story of love, lust, and murder in queer New York

Baby remember my name : an anthology of new queer girl writing

Frank : a life in politics from the Great Society to same-sex marriage

The Greeks and Greek love : a radical reappraisal of homosexuality in ancient Greece

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