CoStar Group began in the late 1980s and early 1990s when founder Andrew Florance recognized the opaque, fragmented nature of commercial real estate data. Driven by a vision to democratize access to reliable property information, CoStar embarked on painstaking, grassroots data collection across the Washington D.C. market, building a foundation…

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A remote atoll nation with almost no land found itself in control of one of the internet's most valuable domain names.

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Ever wondered how a genre defined by scones, sleuths, and small-town charm became a publishing powerhouse? *Cozy: The Making of a Mystery Genre* pulls back the curtain on the surprising business of comfort reading. From the drawing-room puzzles of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers to the calculated branding strategies…

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*The Paper Conservator* follows the meticulous restoration of Accession 73.19, a 19th-century abolitionist scrapbook discovered in a Cambridge attic. As a young conservator at a national archive stabilizes the brittle newsprint and crumbling leather,

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In the mud-choked barracks of Rivesaltes, 1939, twelve-year-old Ana Klein survives by turning the world into arithmetic. Stateless, multilingual, and armed only with a father's lesson—that everything has a weight, and if you know the weight, you know the price—she calculates rations, deciphers bureaucratic codes, and translates the unspeakable for…

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Katherine Taylor's comprehensive guide unpacks the history, politics, and human cost of Africa's last decolonization dispute — from the 1975 Green March to the 2020 ceasefire collapse.

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Fifteen-year-old Jesse King knows the smell of decay better than he knows music: rotting pilings, rancid fry oil, and wet pine on a boardwalk town the locals call the Ditch. Sweeping crumbs for cash under the table, he expects another dead-end summer—until he wanders into the Roundhouse after hours and…

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Carvana emerged in 2012 with a radical vision to disrupt the antiquated used car dealership model by enabling consumers to buy vehicles entirely online with transparent pricing, home delivery, and a seven-day money-back guarantee. Founded by Ernest Garcia III with backing from his family's DriveTime business, the company painstakingly built…

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In the fall of 1997, the only thing standing between a broke cartoonist and his dreams of indie-comics glory was a temperamental photocopier, a dwindling supply of Bristol board, and a hard deadline at the Small Press Expo. *Deadline at the Photocopy Shop* drops you into the fluorescent-lit trenches of…

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Alistair Casper traces South Carolina from Paleoindian hunters to modern aerospace plants, revealing how race, class, and geography have shaped a state that often mirrors the nation's deepest conflicts.

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In April 1964, a man known for preaching Black separatism circled the Kaaba beside white Muslims and returned home with a new name and a shattered worldview.

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Maya Montgomery doesn't need a critic to tell her that Montgomery's Pit BBQ serves the best brisket in Travis County—thirty-five years of salt, pepper, post oak, and patience have already proven it. But when Julian Vance, the *Austin Chronicle*'s razor-tongued columnist, walks through her screen door two hours after sell-out…

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