Get ready for October with these new releases! 📚 #1 @nytimes bestselling author and @pulitzerprizes winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world. WAGING A GOOD WAR: A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1954-2968 is an indispensable addition to the literature of racial justice and social change—and one that offers vital lessons for our own time. 🐙 New from @mcdbooks,THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA is a dazzling literary debut from @raynayler, and a mind-blowing dive into the treasure and wreckage of humankind’s legacy. In this near-future thriller, humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. And new in #biography, Michael Brenson’s DAVID SMITH: THE ART AND LIFE OF A TRANSFORMATIONAL SCULPTOR is the landmark biography of the inscrutable and brilliant David Smith, the greatest American sculptor of the twentieth century. With this book, richly illustrated with over 100 photographs, Brenson has contextualized Smith for a new generation of fans and confirmed his singular place in the history of American art.