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The Personal Librarian
Victoria Christopher Murray, Marie Benedict
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Dolly Chugh
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
David McCullough
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
The Pivot Year: 365 Days to Become the Person You Want to Be
Brianna Wiest
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
Dan Jones
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012
The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Deborah Blum
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Deborah Blum
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Steve Sheinkin
Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2014
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
George Lipsitz
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Transl. Gregory Rabassa
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1881
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Eckhart Tolle
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
The Power of One More: The Ultimate Guide to Happiness and Success
Ed Mylett
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
Daniel H. Pink
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Toby Ord
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959
The President Has Been Shot!: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
James L. Swanson
Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2013
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
Daina Ramey Berry
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
Richard Blanco
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014
The Princesse de Clèves (The Princess of Cleves)
Madame de La Fayette
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1678
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1824
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Anthony Abraham Jack
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1905
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Rick Warren
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
Alicia Garza
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
The Pursuit of Happyness
Chris Gardner
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006
The Push: Mother. Daughter. Angel. Monster?
Ashley Audrain
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021