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In "Moonshot," Pfizer’s chief executive Albert Bourla presents his account of a remarkable scientific advance achieved under extraordinary pressure.

Tim Weiner assesses books about the long-running war in the shadows.

In "The Color of Abolition," Linda Hirshman explores the antislavery movement through three charismatic characters.

In "After the Romanovs,” British historian Helen Rappaport traces the changed lives of Russian exiles who fled to Paris after the Bolshevik Revolution.

E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport seek to formalize voting as a moral duty.

A. J. Baime recounts the extraordinary life of the NAACP's Walter White who wrote late in life: “I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.”

Here's what grabbed our attention on this week's USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list.

Elaine Hsieh Chou’s “Disorientation” is a hyperactive satire so funny it almost makes the reader forget about the serious societal issues that undergird the humor.

Ted Cruz misinterpreted and misrepresented Black children's books as he questioned Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

In Peng Shepherd's fantastical thriller, a cartographer realizes the true power of maps.