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A NPR Best Book of the Year
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.
The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.
From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first
...Calling All Memoir Fans
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How to Be An Antiracist
Seen on Ashland Peeps: White Fragility
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.
One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying
...Black History Month: Exploring Musical Roots
Music as Community: Marginalized Voices
Rogue Reads 2022-23 Selections
Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach...
A Book Written By A Person of Color
Children's Books for Native American Heritage Month
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The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker...
10) Becoming
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13) A promised land
Book Riot's "The Most Popular Books in U.S. Libraries in 2021"
New York Times Notable Books of 2020 List
This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)—the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution.
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.” With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest
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Classics with YA Pairs
Seen on Ashland Peeps: White Fragility
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