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33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day (Book)

Dorian Lynskey

ISBN:9780061670152

From one of the United Kingdom's most prominent music critics, a page-turning and wonderfully researched history of 33 songs that have transformed the world through the twentieth century and beyond.

When pop music meets politics...more details
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A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us about Justice (Book)

Kenji Yoshino

ISBN:9780061769108

A provocative exploration of justice in our time through fresh readings of Shakespeare's greatest plays

Celebrated legal scholar Kenji Yoshino's first book...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:320

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A Widow's Story: A Memoir (Book)

Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN:9780062015532

In a work unlike anything she's written before, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates unveils a poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of forty-six years and its wrenching...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:432

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An Accidental Sportswriter (Book)

Robert Lipsyte

ISBN:9780061769139

A longtime sports columnist for the "New York Times" interweaves stories from his life and the events he covered to explore the relationships between the games we play and the lives we lead

Growing up...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:246

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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (Book)

Kathryn Schulz

ISBN:9780061176043

To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher. If being wrong is so natural...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:405

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Being Wrong: The Meaning of Error in an Age of Conviction (Book)

Kathryn Schulz

ISBN:9780061176050

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Best American Science Writing 2010 (Book)

Jerome Groopman

ISBN:9780061852510

Edited by "New York Times" bestselling author Jerome Groopman, "The Best American Science Writing 2010" collects in one volume the most crucial...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:346

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Burning Bright: Stories (Book)

Ron Rash

ISBN:9780061804120

Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, "Burning Bright" captures the complexities of Appalachia--a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:205

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Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival (Book)

Clara Kramer

ISBN:9780061728617

This heart-stopping story of a young girl hiding from the Nazis is based on Clara Kramer's diary from her years surviving in an underground bunker with seventeen other people.

Clara Kramer was a typical Polish Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded...more details
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Collected Prose: 1962-1998 (Book)

Zbigniew Herbert

ISBN:9780060723828

Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert easily stands beside Nobel Prize laureates Milosz and Szymborska as part of a remarkable literary tradition. Though Herbert is very much an Eastern European writer...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:708

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Endless Love (Book)

Scott Spencer

ISBN:9780061926006

One of the most celebrated novels of its time, "Endless Love" remains perhaps the most powerful novel ever written about young love. Riveting...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:417

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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (Book)

Philip Connors

ISBN:9780061859366

A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the "Wall Street Journal" and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:246

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Go, Mutants! (Book)

Larry Doyle

ISBN:9780061686559

The author of "I Love You, Beth Cooper" returns with an ingenious contemporary satire set in an alternate universe populated by the aliens...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:354

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Just Kids (Book)

Patti Smith

ISBN:9780060936228

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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Just Kids Limited Edition (Book)

Patti Smith

ISBN:9780062014955

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:278

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Keep the Change (Book)

Steve Dublanica

ISBN:9780061787287

An irreverent, pavement-pounding, eye-opening exploration of a neglected part of the American economy: tipping

Tipping is huge in America. Almost everyone leaves at least one tip every day. More than five million American workers depend on them...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:306

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Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement, and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater (Book)

William T Vollmann

ISBN:9780061228490

From the National Book Award-winning author of "Europe Central" comes a charming, evocative and piercing examination of an ancient Japanese tradition and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:528

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Little Bird of Heaven (Book)

Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN:9780061829840

Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, romantic, and captivating tale, set in the Great Lakes region of upstate New York--the territory of her remarkably successful "New York Times" bestseller "The Gravedigger's Daughter."

Set in the mythical small city of Sparta...more details
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Long for This World: Adventures in the Strange Science of Immortality (Book)

Jonathan Weiner

ISBN:9780060765361

In this fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure, a Pulitzer Prize-winning popular science writer asks, Has the long-sought secret of eternal youth at last been found...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:310

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Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality (Book)

Jonathan Weiner

ISBN:9780060765392

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Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Book)

Anthony Bourdain

ISBN:9780061718946

This long-awaited follow-up to "Kitchen Confidential" contains the confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the more controversial figures in food...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:304

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Moscow Sting (Book)

Alex Dryden

ISBN:9780061966842

When Finn, a former British spy, is poisoned by a Russian assassin, his ex-boss Adrian, the chief of MI6, wants vengeance. He also wants answers--information that only Finn's widow knows. But Anna...more details
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My Prison, My Home (Book)

Haleh Esfandiari

ISBN:9780061583285

At the Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran, a man in a checkered shirt sits down in an easy chair. He removes several documents from his pocket and hands one to Haleh Esfandiari...more details
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One More Theory about Happiness (Book)

Paul Guest

ISBN:9780061685170

Paul Guest was twelve years old, racing down a hill on a too big, ancient bicycle, when he discovered he had no brakes. Steering into anything that would slow down the bike...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:208

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Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc (Book)

Hugh Aldersey Williams

ISBN:9780061824722

In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elements--and the amazing...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:448

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Planisphere: New Poems (Book)

John Ashbery

ISBN:9780061915222

Breathlike

Just as the day could use another hour,
I need another idea. Not a concept
or a slogan. Something more like a rut
made thousands of years ago by one of the first
wheels as it rolled along. It never came back
to see what it had done...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:143

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Pop Is King: On Michael Jackson and Pop Music (Book)

Sasha Frere-Jones

ISBN:9780061976186

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Format:Hardcover  Pages:192

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Proust's Overcoat (Book)

Lorenza Foschini

ISBN:9780061965678

Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:128

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Red to Black (Book)

Alex Dryden

ISBN:9780061803901

Finn is a veteran MI6 operative stationed in Moscow. In the guise of an amiable trade secretary, he has penetrated deep into the dangerous labyrinth that is Russia under Vladimir Putin to discover some of its darkest secrets...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:373

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Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Running Around in History, Politics, Art, and Culture (Book)

Simon Schama

ISBN:9780062009869

The "New York Times" has hailed renowned historian and social commentator Simon Schama as a writer who "entwine s] past and present into a meaningful...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:432

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Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un) Making of Terrorists

Scott Atran

ISBN:9780061344909

Terrorists don't kill and die just for a cause.

They kill and die for each other.

In this rigorous and challenging work that combines the penetrating insight of "The Looming Tower" and the historical sweep and scope of "Guns...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:558

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The American Future: A History (Book)

Simon Schama

ISBN:9780060539245

Nothing that has happened since the inauguration of Barack Obama has dispelled the sense that the election of 2008 was the kind of moment of truth in American politics and history that seldom comes along. Simon Schama...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:400

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The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 (Book)

Otto Penzler

ISBN:9780061490866

Thieves, liars, and killers--it's a criminal world out there, and someone has to write about it. A thrilling collection of the year's best reportage by the aces of the true-crime genre...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:384

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The Crusades (Book)

Thomas Asbridge

ISBN:9780060787295

From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" ("The New Yorker") comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the holy land

Nine hundred years ago...more details
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The Fates Will Find Their Way (Book)

Hannah Pittard

ISBN:9780061996054

Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the neighborhood boys she's left behind are caught forever in the heady current of her absence.

As the days and years pile up...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:243

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The Hunger: A Story of Food, Desire, and Ambition (Book)

John Delucie

ISBN:9780061579295

An inspiring, heartwarming memoir from the unlikely chef of The Waverly Inn

"The Hunger" is an insider's take on the crazy life that is the restaurant business...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:233

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The Interrogative Mood (Book)

Padgett Powell

ISBN:9780061859434

Are you happy? Do we need galoshes? Are bluebirds perfect? Do you know the distinctions, empirical or theoretical, between moss and lichen...more details
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The Marrowbone Marble Company (Book)

M Glenn Taylor

ISBN:9780061923937

From the author of "The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart," a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, comes this sweeping novel of love and war...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:360

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The Tree (Book)

John Fowles

ISBN:9780061997778

John Fowles (1926-2005) is widely regarded as one of the preeminent English novelists of the twentieth century--his books have sold millions of copies worldwide...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:91

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The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea (Book)

Philip Hoare

ISBN:9780061976209

From his childhood fascination with the gigantic Natural History Museum model of a blue whale, to his abiding love of "Moby-Dick," to his adult encounters with the living animals in the Atlantic Ocean...more details
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You or Someone Like You (Book)

Chandler Burr

ISBN:9780061715679

Anne Rosenbaum leads a life of quiet Los Angeles privilege, the wife of Hollywood executive Howard Rosenbaum and mother of their seventeen-year-old son...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:319

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Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America (Book)

Les Standiford

ISBN:9780061983900

There are two periods of history that pertain to missing and endangered children in the United States: before Adam Walsh and after Adam Walsh. In the aftermath of that six-year old?s abduction and slaying in 1981...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:291

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Making Toast (Book)

Roger Rosenblatt

ISBN:9780061825958

From O Magazine to the New York Times, from authors such as E.L. Doctorow to Ann Beattie, critics and writers across the country have hailed Roger Rosenblatt?s MAKING TOAST as an evocative...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:166

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Quiet Chaos (Book)

Sandro Veronesi

ISBN:9780061572944

After an afternoon of surfing with his brother, Carlo, TV executive Pietro Paladini spots a group of people at the water?s edge - out in the waves...more details
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Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Book)

Campbell McGrath

ISBN:9780061661303

An extract from the opening of ?Shannon?, an epic poem examining one man?s experience of the Lewis and Clarke expedition: It is a fine & open country in every aspect hereabouts. The very prairie...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:113

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Sweet Magic: 50 Easy Recipes for Delectable Desserts (Book)

Michel Richard

ISBN:9780061928215

Long before he won his first James Beard Award as The Best Chef in America, before Gourmet Magazine put him on the cover of its Great Chefs issue...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:209

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The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems (Book)

Robert Hass

ISBN:9780061923906

THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA includes work from Robert Hass?s first five books, FIELD GUIDE, PRAISE, HUMAN WISHES, SUN UNDER WOOD, and TIME AND MATERIALS (winner of the 2007 National Book Award and 2008 Pulitzer Prize)...more details
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The Continual Condition (Book)

Charles Bukowski

ISBN:9780061771217

To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was--and remains--a counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature, a stubborn outsider to the poetry world...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:127

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Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing (Book)

Roger Rosenblatt

ISBN:9780061965616

Mark Twain wrote that "the difference between a word and the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and lightning." From the luminescent MAKING TOAST to the fiendishly witty LAPHAM RISING...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:176

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Unti on Hitting (Book)

Kevin Long

ISBN:9780061994999

Ted Williams, the greatest hitter in baseball history, once said that hitting a baseball is the most difficult skill in sports. If hitting a baseball well is difficult...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:198

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