">>>>> Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West <<<<<

From the award-winning author of&nbspDown from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one gun&#8217s role in the violence that shaped the American West&#8212and an impassioned call to forge a new way forwardBryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, when Andrews inherited his grandfather&#8217s Smith &amp Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men who&#8217d come before him had turned firearms like this one against wildlife, wilderness, and the Indigenous peoples who had lived in these landscapes for millennia. This was how the West was &#8220won.&#8221 Now, the losses were all around him and a weapon was in his hand.In precise, elegiac prose, Andrews chronicles his journey to forge a new path for himself, and to reshape one handgun into a tool for good work. As 

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">>>>> Give Bees a Chance <<<<<

From the author-illustrator of Children's Choice Book Award Winner I'm Trying to Love Spiders: a plea to please give bees a chance!Not sure whether to high-five bees or run away from them? Well, maybe you shouldn't high-five them, but you definitely don't have to run away from them.&nbspGive Bees a Chance is for anyone who doesn't quite appreciate how extra special and important bees are to the world, and even to humankind! Besides making yummy honey, they help plants grow fruits and vegetables. And most bees wouldn't hurt a fly (unless it was in self-defense!).&nbspBethany Barton's interactive cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious narrator mean this book is full of facts and fun. With bees officially on the endangered animals list, it's more important now than ever to get on board with our flying, honey-making friends!

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">>>>> The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place Book 4) <<<<<

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, &#8220refreshing, and very useful&#8221 (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to today&#8217s world powers and how they presage a volatile future.Tim Marshall&#8217s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a &#8220fresh way of looking at maps&#8221 (The New York Times Book Review), showing how every nation&#8217s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and walls. Since then, the geography hasn&#8217t changed, but the world has. Now, in this &#8220wonderfully entertaining and lucid account, written with wit, pace, and clarity&#8221 (Mirror, UK), Marshall takes us into ten regions set to shape global politics. Find out why US interest in the Middle East will wane why Australia is now beginning an epic contest with China how Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UK are cleverly positioning themselves for greater power why Ethiopia can control Egypt 

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">>>>> Would You Rather? Easter Edition: Hop into a Hilarious Springtime Game for Kids (Easter Book for Kids) <<<<<

From the author of the best-selling &#8220Would You Rather?&#8221 series, a collection of hilarious Easter-themed questions for kids who love a laughter-filled challenge.Looking for an egg-cellent Easter activity? From chocolate bunnies to egg hunts, these entertaining and thought-provoking Would You Rather? questions will have you and the Easter Bunny hopping for joy!Would You Rather? Easter Edition features:160+ &quotWould You Rather?&quot questions about Easter eggs, bunnies, baskets, chocolate, and so much more.Either/or scenarios that challenge kids to think creatively and speak persuasively.Time away from screens with super-fun tech-free questions.Easter fun with hilarious questions and silly answers.A competitive game for kids and families who can outsmart whom?Whether you&#8217re looking for an Easter basket stuffer or family fun at your holiday dinner, Would You Rather? Easter Edition will provide hours of laughter for everybunny!

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">>>>> Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America <<<<<

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an&nbsp&#8220illuminating&#8221 (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last 150 years of American history&#8212from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics&#8212Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.As provocative as it is essential, this book will upend everything you thought you knew about 

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">>>>> Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections <<<<<

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER JUSTICE ON TRIAL Stunned by the turbulence of the 2020 election, millions of Americans are asking the forbidden question: what really happened? It was a devastating triple punch. Capping their four-year campaign to destroy the Trump presidency, the media portrayed a Democratic victory as necessary and inevitable. Big Tech, wielding unprecedented powers, vaporized dissent and erased damning reports about the Biden family's corruption. And Democratic operatives, exploiting a public health crisis, shamelessly manipulated the voting process itself. Silenced and subjected, the American people lost their faith in the system. RIGGED is the definitive account of the 2020 election. Based on Mollie Hemingway's exclusive interviews with campaign officials, reporters, Supreme Court justices, and President Trump himself, it exposes the fraud and cynicism behind the Democrats' historic power-grab. Rewriting history is a specialty of the radical left, 

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">>>>> Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World <<<<<

From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf&#8217s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium.Drawing deeply on this research, this audiobook comprises a series of letters Wolf writes to us to describe her concerns and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums. Wolf raises 

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">>>>> Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves <<<<<

From the author of King Leopold&#8217s Ghost, a narrative history of the social justice campaign formed in the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.In early 1787, twelve men&#8212a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery&#8212came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another continent. Masterfully stoking public opinion, the movement's leaders pioneered a variety of techniques that have been adopted by citizens' movements ever since, from consumer boycotts to wall posters and lapel buttons to celebrity endorsements. A deft chronicle of this groundbreaking antislavery crusade and its powerful enemies,&nbspBury the Chains&nbspgives a little-celebrated human rights watershed its due.A San Francisco Chronicle BestsellerA Book Sense Selection&#8220By far the most readable and rounded account we have of British antislavery, a campaign that, as the author 

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">>>>> Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World <<<<<

From the author of Eating the Sun, an artistic collection of more than 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into EnglishDid you know that the Japanese language has a word to&nbspexpress the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there&#8217s a Finnish word for the distance a reindeer&nbspcan travel before needing to rest?&nbspLost in Translation brings to life more than fifty words that&nbspdon&#8217t have direct English translations with charming illustrations&nbspof their tender, poignant, and humorous definitions. Often&nbspthese words provide insight into the cultures they come from,&nbspsuch as the Brazilian Portuguese word for running your fingers through a lover&#8217s hair, the Italian word for being moved to tears by a story, or the Swedish word for a third cup of coffee. In this clever and beautifully rendered exploration of the&nbspsubtleties of communication, you&#8217ll find new ways to express 

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">>>>> The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures <<<<<

From the archives of the Library of Congress: &#8220An irresistible treasury for book and library lovers.&#8221 &#8212Booklist (starred review)The Library of Congress brings book lovers an enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books. Featuring more than two hundred full-color images of original catalog cards, first edition book covers, and photographs from the library&#8217s magnificent archives, this collection is a visual celebration of the rarely seen treasures in one of the world&#8217s most famous libraries and the brilliant catalog system that has kept it organized for hundreds of years. Packed with engaging facts on literary classics&#8212from Ulysses to The Cat in the Hat to Shakespeare&#8217s First Folio to The Catcher in the Rye&#8212this is an ode to the enduring magic and importance of books.&#8220The Card Catalog is many things: a lucid overview of the history of bibliographic practices, a paean to the Library of 

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