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King: A Life (Hardcover) By Jonathan Eig $35.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Paperback) By Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich (Foreword by) $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Desert Solitaire (Paperback) By Edward Abbey $17.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story (Hardcover) By Bono $34.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero (Paperback) By Timothy Egan $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback) By George Jackson, Jean Genet (Introduction by), Jonathan Jackson, Jr. (Foreword by) $19.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover) By Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich (Foreword by) $27.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Slave Stealers: True Accounts of Slave Rescues: Then and Now (Hardcover) By Timothy Ballard, Mike Tomlin (Foreword by) $26.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Ali: A Life (Paperback) By Jonathan Eig $18.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Paperback) By Manning Marable $22.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America (Hardcover) By Cori Bush $28.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope (Hardcover) By Jon Meacham, John Lewis (Afterword by) $30.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now

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Science Friday Book Club

Listeners to NPR's Science Friday may know that the program also has a monthly book club, with recommendations each month.

If you'd like to join the discussion of the books, you can visit their website here, and all books featured can also be directly ordered from the Book House!

November: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez

December: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 edited by Carl Zimmer and Jaime Green

January: An Immense World by Ed Yong