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Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971 (Book)

Harry S Truman

ISBN:9780307593542

Published for the first time: the personal letters of President Harry S. Truman and his secretary of state, Dean Acheson, from the year when both were newly out of office until Acheson's death at the age of seventy-eight--giants of the postwar period moving from an official relationship to one of candor...more details
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Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Book)

Kevin Young

ISBN:9780307267641

A chorus of voices tells the story of the Africans who mutinied on board the slave ship "Amistad. "Written over twenty years, this poetic epic--part libretto...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:249

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Crime: Stories (Book)

Ferdinand Von Schirach

ISBN:9780307594150

The jolting debut collection of stories from one of Germany's most prominent defense attorneys, based on his own experience in court and as a close observer of the criminal mind and motive.
The narrator of the nine stories in "Crime" is coolly intelligent...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:188

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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation (Book)

Andrea Wulf

ISBN:9780307269904

From the author of the acclaimed "The Brother Gardeners, "a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:349

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Have You Seen . . . ?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films (Book)

David Thomson

ISBN:9780375711343

More than one thousand pages in the voice of our most provocative contemporary film critic and historian--a generous history of film and an enticing critical appraisal written with as much humor and passion as historical knowledge.
Juxtaposing the fanciful and the fabulous...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:1007

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I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (Book)

Maxine Hong Kingston

ISBN:9780307270191

In her singular voice--humble, elegiac, practical--Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five.
In swift verse lines that become...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:229

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I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections (Book)

Nora Ephron

ISBN:9780307595607

Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of "I Feel Bad About My Neck, "taking a cool, hard, hilarious look at the past...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:160

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I Think I Love You (Book)

Allison Pearson

ISBN:9781400042357

From the author of the best seller "I Don't Know How She Does It, "a follow-up that promises to be one of the most widely read and talked-about novels of the season.
1974...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:336

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I Was a Dancer (Book)

Jacques D'Amboise

ISBN:9781400042340

From one of America's finest, and most celebrated, classical dancers; former principal dancer for more than three decades with the New York City Ballet--the irresistible story of an exhilarating life in dance.
He writes of the New York City Ballet and those at its center: Lincoln Kirstein; Jerome Robbins; George Balanchine ("With Robbins...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:439

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In Motion: The Experience of Travel (Book)

Tony Hiss

ISBN:9780679415978

In this extraordinarily wide-ranging, insightful, mind-opening book, Tony Hiss delves into the question of why travel sometimes (but only sometimes) feels remarkably fresh and exhilarating...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:352

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Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Book)

Maya Jasanoff

ISBN:9781400041688

At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:460

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Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days (Book)

James Salter

ISBN:9780375711398

Now in paperback: the charming, beautifully illustrated food lover's companion that, with an entry for each day of the year, takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne dinner on New Year's Eve. "Life Is Meals" is rich with culinary wisdom...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:464

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Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right (Book)

Dominic Sandbrook

ISBN:9781400042623

A comprehensively researched, panoramic account of a defining era in American history.
The 1970s were some of the grimmest years in American history: from Nixon's disgraceful exit after Watergate...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:506

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Minding Frankie (Book)

Maeve Binchy

ISBN:9780307273567

Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.
When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:400

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Modigliani: A Life (Book)

Meryle Secrest

ISBN:9780307263681

"People like us . . . have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us . . . above their moral standards." --Modigliani
Amedeo ("Beloved of God") Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:387

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Montecore (Book)

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

ISBN:9780307270955

He has been hailed as one of the greatest writers of his generation in Sweden, and now we have the first of his novels to be translated into English: a luminous mock-historical epic about a Tunisian immigrant in Sweden who may or may not be the author's own father.
Papa is the superhero of "Montecore...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:311

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News of the World (Book)

Philip Levine

ISBN:9780375711909

In this "characteristically wise" ("The New York Times Book Review)" collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Philip Levine brings us finely made...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:65

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No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf (Book)

Carolyn Burke

ISBN:9780307268013

The iconic French singer comes to life in this enthralling, definitive biography, which captures Edith Piaf's immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her unprecedented international career.
Raised by turns in a brothel...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:304

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Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 (Book)

Stephen Budiansky

ISBN:9780307270696

The rousing story of a scrappy band of seamen and a visionary secretary of the navy who defeated the legendary British Royal Navy that had dominated the seas for more than two centuries...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:422

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Please Look After Mom (Book)

Kyung-Sook Shin

ISBN:9780307593917

A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea and poised to become an international sensation. "Please Look After Mom" is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:256

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Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars (Book)

Solomon Volkov

ISBN:9780307270634

In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:287

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Selected Poems (Book)

Anthony Hecht

ISBN:9780375711985

Alongside Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and other pillars of twentieth-century poetry, Anthony Hecht joins the Borzoi Poetry series.@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;Hecht...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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Star Island (Book)

Carl Hiaasen

ISBN:9780307272584

Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry's "undercover stunt double...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:352

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Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy Bundle: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the Girl Who Played with Fire, the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Book)

Stieg Larsson

ISBN:9780307594778

Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy is now available in a complete hardcover set.
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"All across America, readers are talking about Stieg Larsson's best-selling novels...more details
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Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy Deluxe Boxed Set: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the Girl Who Played with Fire, the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's (Book)

Stieg Larsson

ISBN:9780307595577

Readers all across America are talking about Stieg Larsson's #1 best- selling trilogy, with more than 5 million copies in print.
Now, just in time for the holidays...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:576

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Swamplandia! (Book)

Karen Russell

ISBN:9780307263995

A triumphant debut novel and follow-up to Karen Russell's universally acclaimed short story collection "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.
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The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline--"think Buddenbrooks "set in the Florida Everglades--and Swamplandia ...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:315

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The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America (Book)

Richard Kluger

ISBN:9780307268891

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Kluger, the riveting story of a brutal confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers, a harrowing drama that unfolded in the new...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:330

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The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Book)

David Remnick

ISBN:9781400043606

No story has been more central to America's history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama's life or explores the ambition behind his rise...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:672

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The Foremost Good Fortune (Book)

Susan Conley

ISBN:9780307594068

When Susan Conley moves with her family to Beijing, she can't imagine how much their lives will change. While Tony, her husband, is consumed with his job...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:276

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The Hemlock Cup (Book)

Bettany Hughes

ISBN:9781400041794

From the celebrated British author and historian: a dazzling new book in which she combines historical inquiry and storytelling elan to give us a brilliantly vivid portrait of Socrates and of the Golden Age of Athens.
Socrates' life spanned "seventy of the busiest...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:484

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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Book)

Brian Greene

ISBN:9780307265630

From the best-selling author of "The Elegant Universe "and "The Fabric of the Cosmos: "his most thrilling and accessible book to date--a state-of-the-art tour of the cutting-edge science that is changing the way we see our world.
In recent years...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:384

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The History of History (Book)

Ida Hattemer-Higgins

ISBN:9780307272775

A ferociously smart and electrifyingly original debut novel.
2002. A young woman named Margaret stumbles one morning from the forest outside Berlin--hands dirty...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:319

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The Hunger Moon: Selected Poems, 1980-2010 (Book)

Marge Piercy

ISBN:9780307594105

This new gathering of Marge Piercy's poems--funny, angry, in awe of life, compassionate--brings us the heart of her mature work, the first selected since "Circles on the Water "in 1982.
Here...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:327

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The Journey (Book)

Tony Blair

ISBN:9780307269836

From one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times, an intimate, far-reaching and hugely revealing memoir.
In 1997, the biggest Labour Party victory in history swept England...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:700

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The Killing of Crazy Horse (Book)

Thomas Powers

ISBN:9780375414466

He was the most feared and loathed Indian of his time, earning his reputation in surprise victories against the troops of Generals Crook and Custer at the Rosebud and Little Bighorn. Despite his enduring reputation...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:568

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The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War (Book)

Ben Shephard

ISBN:9781400040681

A groundbreaking book that offers a radical reassessment of the aftermath of World War II.
As newly formed relief organizations began to grapple with the recovery effort in Europe in 1945...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:489

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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Book)

Tim Wu

ISBN:9780307269935

A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the twentieth century's great information empires--Hollywood, the broadcast networks...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:366

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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim (Book)

Jonathan Coe

ISBN:9780307594815

Maxwell Sim can't seem to make a single meaningful connection. His absent father was always more interested in poetry; he maintains an e-mail correspondence with his estranged wife...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:314

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The Troubled Man (Book)

Henning Mankell

ISBN:9780307593498

The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell's brilliant, brooding detective Kurt Wallander.
Hakan von Enke, a retired naval officer, disappears during a walk in a forest near Stockholm. Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:367

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Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart (Book)

Stefan Kanfer

ISBN:9780307271006

The definitive biography of one of the great movie icons of the twentieth century, and a wide-reaching appraisal of the actor's singular legacy.
It's hard to think of anyone who has had the same kind of impact on the culture of movies as Humphrey Bogart. Though he died at age fifty-seven more than half a century ago...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:288

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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life (Book)

Karen Armstrong

ISBN:9780307595591

One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world--author of such acclaimed books as "A History of God, Islam, "and "Buddha"--now gives us an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place.
Karen Armstrong believes that while compassion is intrinsic in all human beings...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:222

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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do about It (Book)

Gary Taubes

ISBN:9780307272706

An eye-opening, paradigm-shattering examination of what makes us fat.
In the "New York Times" best seller "Good Calories, Bad Calories, "acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes argues that certain kinds of carbohydrates--not fats and not simply excess calories--have led to our current obesity epidemic. Now he brings that message to a wider...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:257

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You Think That's Bad: Stories (Book)

Jim Shepard

ISBN:9780307594822

Following "Like You'd Understand, Anyway"--awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award--Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:240

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Chinaberry Sidewalks (Book)

Rodney Crowell

ISBN:9780307594204

The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his father's mercurial moods and gauging exactly when his mother was likely to erupt...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:259

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Conversations with Scorsese (Book)

Richard Schickel

ISBN:9780307268402

Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, The Departed, The Aviator, Shutter Island: these are just a few of the critically acclaimed films...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:423

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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India (Book)

Joseph Lelyveld

ISBN:9780307269584

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments -his success in seizing India's imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:425

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My Prizes: An Accounting (Book)

Thomas Bernhard

ISBN:9780307272874

A gathering of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of the twentieth century's most famous literary enfants terribles. Written in 1980 but published here for the first time...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:129

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Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe ()

Martin Bojowald

ISBN:9780307272850

In 2000, Martin Bojowald, then a twenty-seven-year-old post-doc at Pennsylvania State University, used a relatively new theory called loop quantum gravity a cunning combination of Einstein's theory of gravity with quantum mechanics to create a simple model of the universe. Loop quantum cosmology was born...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:309

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Selected Poems (Book)

Wallace Stevens

ISBN:9780375711732

The first new selection of this acclaimed poet's work in nearly twenty years now in paperback is a rich reminder to poetry readers of his lasting contribution and his unending ability to puzzle...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:326

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