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101 Theory Drive: A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory (Book)

Terry McDermott

ISBN:9780375425387

An obsessive scientist and his eclectic team of researchers race to discover one of the hidden treasures of neuroscience-the physical makeup of memory-and in the process pursue a pharmaceutical wonder drug.
It's not fiction: Gary Lynch is the real thing...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:271

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A Biographical Dictionary of Jazz and Popular Singers (Book)

Will Friedwald

ISBN:9780375421495

The most extensive biographical and critical survey of jazz and popular singers ever written--an essential guide to the Great American Songbook and those who performed it.
These illuminating...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:811

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A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Book)

Josh Neufeld

ISBN:9780375714887

"A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge" is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.
Here we meet Denise...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:193

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Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World (Book)

Doug Saunders

ISBN:9780375425493

A panoramic and thoroughly researched  account—at once ambitious and accessible—of the urban migrations that are reshaping our world.
 
What will be remembered about our century...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:368

USD $30.00

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Becoming Animal: An Essay on Wonder (Book)

David Abram

ISBN:9780375421716

David Abram's first book, "The Spell of the Sensuous"--hailed as "revolutionary" by the "Los Angeles Times," as "daring and truly original" by "Science"--has become a classic of environmental literature. Now Abram returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
As the climate veers toward catastrophe...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:313

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Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: The Story of a Crime (Book)

Leif G W Persson

ISBN:9780307377456

The first novel in a trilogy that has become the defining account of the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme--an event that still haunts the collective Swedish memory.
Beginning with the death of an unknown American citizen in Stockholm...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:551

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Blind Sight (Book)

Meg Howrey

ISBN:9780307379160

This spellbinding story introduces the unforgettable seventeen-year-old narrator, Luke Prescott, who has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy by his divorced New Age mother...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:289

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Bodyworld (Book)

Dash Shaw

ISBN:9780307378422

From the astonishing imagination of Dash Shaw, visionary author of "Bottomless Belly Button," comes a darkly fantastical graphic novel about a small town...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:384

USD $30.00

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Corduroy Mansions (Book)

Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN:9780307379085

A delightful new setting--London--a delightful new cast of characters, and one incredibly clever dog.
Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:353

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Doctor Zhivago (Book)

Boris Pasternak

ISBN:9780307377692

From the acclaimed translators of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina," a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:544

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Eddie Signwriter (Book)

Adam Schwartzman

ISBN:9780307378736

A stunning debut novel-its power and prose evocative of such diverse writers as Faulkner, Ondaatje, Nabokov, and Coetzee-about a young African's international odyssey of self-discovery.
At its center: Kwasi Edward Michael Dankoh- Eddie Signwriter to his clients-a twenty-year-old painter of murals and billboards in the city of Accra...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:293

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Everything Must Change (Book)

Julia Glass

ISBN:9780307377920

A rich and suspenseful novel from the award-winning author of "Three Junes" and "I See You Everywhere."
In a quirky farmhouse outside Boston...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:416

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Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (Game)

Tom Bissell

ISBN:9780307378705

Like many otherwise functional adults, Tom Bissell is ad-dicted to video games, spending hours a day neglecting work and social engagements in favor of "Oblivion...more details
Format:Game  Pages:218

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Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes (Book)

Daniel Kehlmann

ISBN:9780307378712

A man buys a cell phone and starts receiving calls intended for someone else; so begins this tale about fame and obscurity, truth and deception--full of surprise...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:192

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Gryphon: New and Selected Stories (Book)

Charles Baxter

ISBN:9780307379214

From a writer whose work "reminds one of how broad and deep and shining a story can be" (Alice Munro), a selection that gathers the best from his four earlier collections as well as seven previously uncollected stories.
However different they are from one another...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:400

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Henry Aaron: Baseball's Last Hero (Book)

Howard Bryant

ISBN:9780375424854

The first definitive biography of Henry Aaron--baseball's great home-run champion and one of its most enduring legends.
As the steroid controversy has increasingly tarnished baseball's image...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:624

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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Book)

Charles Yu

ISBN:9780307379207

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space-time.
Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:256

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Ice Haven (Book)

Daniel Clowes

ISBN:9780375714696

At long last, the paperback version of Daniel Clowes's bril-liant graphic novel, hailed by Time as "another of his hilari-ously slightly off-center worlds that have a vague sense of dread about them. Kind of like where you live."
Welcome to Ice Haven "It's not as cold here as it sounds...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:89

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Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer (Book)

Chely Wright

ISBN:9780307378866

The award-winning country music artist--songwriter and singer ("Single White Female, Shut Up and Drive, "and others)--writes movingly and candidly about her life...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:286

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Misterioso: A Crime Novel (Book)

Arne Dahl

ISBN:9780375425356

Following a complicated but successful dismantling of a hostage situation, Detective Paul Hjelm is facing the prospect of a potentially career-ending investigation by Internal Affairs. Instead...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:339

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Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age (Book)

Susan Jacoby

ISBN:9780307377944

From the author of the best-selling "The Age of American Unreason": an impassioned, closely reasoned critique of the myth that a radically new old age--unmarred by physical and mental infirmity...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:332

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Paul Among the People: Reinterpreting and Reimagining the Apostle in His Own Time (Book)

Sarah Ruden

ISBN:9780375425011

A brilliant reconsideration of the Apostle Paul-his theology is the basis of Christian dogma-that explores the ways in which his writings have been misunderstood and how he has been falsely cast as an authoritarian rule maker...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:214

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Perfect Reader (Book)

Maggie Pouncey

ISBN:9780307378743

In this delightful debut novel, a daughter of a quaint New England college town returns to confront her father's legacy and the surprising pieces of life he has left behind.
Maggie Pouncey has created an unforgettable charac-ter in the young...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:268

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Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone (Book)

Nadine Cohodas

ISBN:9780375424014

A definitive life of the brilliant and high-tempered singer whose unique voice and music occupy a singular place in the canon of American music.
Tapping into newly unearthed material-including family and musical stories never before told-Nadine Cohodas gives us a luminous portrait of the singer who was born Eunice Waymon in Tryon...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:449

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Roots of Steel: The Boom and Bust of an American Mill Town (Book)

Deborah Rudacille

ISBN:9780375423680

The daughter of a steelworker gives us an intimate history of the rise and decline of a town and an industry.
When Deborah Rudacille was a child...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:290

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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Book)

Antonio Damasio

ISBN:9780307378750

One of the most important and original neuroscientists at work today tackles a question that has confounded neurologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:367

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Somebody Else's Century: Asia Now and Then (Book)

Patrick Smith

ISBN:9780375425509

From one of the foremost experts on Asia and its history: a brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West in the modern era.
In three succinct essays...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:242

USD $34.18

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Take One Candle, Light a Room (Book)

Susan Straight

ISBN:9780307379146

A luminous novel from the author of "A Million Nightingales" ("With every book, the canvas seems to grow, suggesting there's no limit to where Straight will take readers next."--"Los Angeles Times").
Fantine Antoine is a travel writer...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:336

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The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime (Book)

Michael Duca

ISBN:9780375424694

Hilarious, surprising, and vastly entertaining, "The Baseball Codes" uncovers the hidden rules of baseball.
Everyone knows that baseball is a game of complicated rules...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:304

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The Cardboard Valise (Book)

Ben Katchor

ISBN:9780375421143

Ben Katchor ("The creator of the last great American comic strip."--Michael Chabon) gives us his first book in more than ten years: the story of the fantastical nation of Outer Canthus and the three people who...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:128

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The Coup: The Rise of the Wall Street Oligarchy (Book)

James Kwak

ISBN:9780307379054

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, the largest banks at its center have emerged bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:304

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The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (Book)

James Baldwin

ISBN:9780307378828

A revelation of an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form.
James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:304

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The Double Comfort Safari Club: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel (Book)

Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN:9780375424502

The delightful new installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved and best-selling series finds Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi traveling to the north of Botswana...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:224

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The Faults of Others: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Book)

Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN:9780307379177

In this latest, felicitous addition to the Isabel Dalhousie series, our inquisitive heroine comes to see that there are very few of us who are not flawed ...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:272

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The Illumination (Book)

Kevin Brockmeier

ISBN:9780375425318

From best-selling and award-winning author Kevin Brock-meier: a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we all bear and the light that radiates from us all.
What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? In the aftermath of a fatal car accident...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:257

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The Illustrated Insectopedia (Book)

Hugh Raffles

ISBN:9780375423864

A stunningly original exploration of the beautiful, ancient, successful, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with which we share this world.
For as long as humans have been here...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:465

USD $32.15

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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Book)

James Gleick

ISBN:9780375423727

James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers "Chaos" and "Ge-nius," brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:526

USD $32.15

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The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel (Book)

Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN:9780307378392

@lt;p@gt;The latest installment in the beloved, best-selling series is once again a beautiful blend of wit and wisdom, and a profoundly touching tale of the human heart.@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt;At a remote cattle post south of Gaborone two cows have been killed...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:224

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The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa ()

Sasha Polakow-Suransky

ISBN:9780375425462

A revelatory account of Israel's secret military cooperation with apartheid South Africa.
Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was the darling of the international Left. But after its occupation of Pales-tinian territories in 1967...more details
Format:Microfilm  Pages:324

USD $43.85

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The Use and Abuse of Literature (Book)

Marjorie Garber

ISBN:9780375424342

As crucial "as The Closing of the American Mind, Cultural Literacy, "and" Illiberal Education" were to their times, "The Use and Abuse of Literature "is to ours.
In this deep and engaging meditation on the useful-ness and uselessness of reading in the digital age...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:320

USD $31.07

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The Weekend (Book)

Bernhard Schlink

ISBN:9780307378156

A provocative, haunting novel from the acclaimed author of "The Reader."
Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they've taken since their youth. But this isn't just any reunion...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:215

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The Weight (Book)

Andrew Vachss

ISBN:9780307379191

Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who's about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever.
Sugar is that rarest of commodities: an old-school professional thief...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:263

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The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents (Book)

Alex Butterworth

ISBN:9780375425110

A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of several violent revolutionaries and the secret police who pursued them.
In the late nineteenth century...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:482

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Villain (Book)

Yoshida Shuichi

ISBN:9780307378873

The first novel to be translated into English from one of Japan's rising literary stars; a tale of murder and desperation set in a desolate seaside town...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:295

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What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years (Book)

Ricky Riccardi

ISBN:9780307378446

The first account--prodigiously researched, richly detailed--of the last remarkable twenty-five years of the life and art of one of America's greatest and most beloved musical icons.
Much has been written about Louis Armstrong...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:369

USD $53.61

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Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World (Book)

Norman Lebrecht

ISBN:9780375423819

Norman Lebrecht--noted music critic, novelist, and author of the classic "Mahler Remembered"--explains why Gustav Mahler, relatively obscure in his own time...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:336

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Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild (Book)

Lee Sandlin

ISBN:9780307378514

A riveting look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America's historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the nineteenth century.
Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:304

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X'Ed Out (Book)

Charles Burns

ISBN:9780307379139

From the creator of "Black Hole": the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.
Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:56

USD $21.41

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You Don't Say!: T/C (Book)

Michele Norris

ISBN:9780307378767

In the wake of talk of a "post-racial America" upon the ascendance of Barack Obama as president of the United States, Michele Norris, host of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:208

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The Landmark Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander (Book)

Robert B Strassler

ISBN:9780375423468

During twelve years of continuous campaigns, Alexander conquered an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the edge of modern India. Arrian's history of those conquests...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:503

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