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A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir (Book)

Norris Church Mailer

ISBN:9780812979879

In this revealing memoir, told with southern charm and wit, Norris Church Mailer depicts the full evolution of her colorful life--from her childhood in a small Arkansas town all the way through her intense thirty-three-year marriage with Norman Mailer and his heartbreaking death...more details
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (Book)

Susannah Carson

ISBN:9780812980011

For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession...more details
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Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain (Book)

Michael Farquhar

ISBN:9780812979046

Spanning 500 years of British history, a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the world's most engaging royal historians
Beleaguered by scandal...more details
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Billy Bathgate (Book)

E L Doctorow

ISBN:9780812981179

To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:336

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Black and Blue (Book)

Anna Quindlen

ISBN:9780812980493

With this stunning novel about a woman and a marriage that begins in passion and becomes violent, the Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist and bestselling author of One True Thing and Object Lessons moves to a new dimension as a writer of superb fiction. "If literature were judged solely by its ability to elicit strong emotions...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:320

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Buying in: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are (Book)

Rob Walker

ISBN:9780812974096

"Fascinating ... A compelling blend of cultural anthropology and business journalism." -- Andrea Sachs, " Time Magazine
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"An often startling tour of new cultural terrain." -- Laura Miller...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:291

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Centennial (Book)

James A Michener

ISBN:9780812978421

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Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility (Book)

David Walker

ISBN:9780812980721

He's one of America's most capable, canny, candid, and independent financial experts. Now David M. Walker sounds a call to action. Comeback America is a tough-minded...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:252

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Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table (Book)

Ruth Reichl

ISBN:9780812981629

In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals. Comfort Me with Apples picks up Reichl's story in 1978...more details
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Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster (Book)

Paul Ingrassia

ISBN:9780812980752

With an updated Afterword by the author
This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris...more details
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Finny (Book)

Justin Kramon

ISBN:9780812980233

Justin Kramon's debut novel, Finny, is a sweeping, enchanting voyage, an insightful story about a young woman's complicated path to adulthood.
We meet Finny Short as an observant...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:366

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Gigalaw Guide to Internet Law (Book)

Doug Isenberg

ISBN:9780812991987

Advance praise for The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law
"I read this book from cover to cover. The examples of case law are of enormous illustrative value. Some of them will raise your blood pressure (well...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:432

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Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome (Book)

Anthony Everitt

ISBN:9780812978148

Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustus was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:392

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Homer & Langley (Book)

E L Doctorow

ISBN:9780812975635

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World's Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:224

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Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran (Book)

Azadeh Moaveni

ISBN:9780812977905

Both a love story and a reporter's first draft of history, "Honeymoon in Tehran" is a stirring, trenchant, and deeply personal chronicle of two years in the maelstrom of Iranian life.
In 2005...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:368

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Let the Great World Spin (Book)

Colum McCann

ISBN:9780812973990

In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:375

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Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back (Book)

Douglas Rushkoff

ISBN:9780812978506

Now includes "The Life Inc. Guide to Reclaiming the Value You Create"
In "Life Inc, " award-winning writer Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. The resulting ideology...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:347

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Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories (Book)

E L Doctorow

ISBN:9780812981186

Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In "The Writer in the Family...more details
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Book)

Helen Simonson

ISBN:9780812981223

In the small village of Edgecombe St. Mary in the English countryside lives Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry...more details
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Mrs. Somebody Somebody: Stories (Book)

Tracy Winn

ISBN:9780812981452

In this astonishing debut, Tracy Winn poignantly chronicles the souls who inhabit the troubled mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, playing out their struggles and hopes over the course of the twentieth century. Through a stunning variety of voices...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:207

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Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language (Book)

Stewart Kellerman

ISBN:9780812978100

Do you cringe when a talking head pronounces "niche" as NITCH? Do you get bent out of shape when your teenager begins a sentence with "and," or says "octopuses" instead of "octopi"...more details
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Precious (Book)

Sandra Novack

ISBN:9780812978377

The summer of 1978, ten-year-old Vicki Anderson rides her bike to the local park and goes missing. Her tight-knit blue-collar Pennsylvania neighborhood...more details
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Sacred Hearts (Book)

Sarah Dunant

ISBN:9780812974058

The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community...more details
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (Book)

Larry Tye

ISBN:9780812977974

He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:392

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Sonic Boom: A Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the New Global Economy (Book)

Gregg Easterbrook

ISBN:9780812974133

What can a spell-checker tell you about economic trends? Why is the world's supply of ideas about to double? What did America get right in the nineteenth century that it's getting wrong in the twenty-first? If Karl Marx were alive today...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:243

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Soul of a Dog: Reflections on the Spirits of the Animals of Bedlam Farm (Book)

Jon Katz

ISBN:9780812977738

Do animals have souls? Some of our greatest thinkers-Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas-and countless animal lovers have been obsessed with this question for thousands of years...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:184

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Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare (Book)

Jonathan Bate

ISBN:9780812971811

"One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today's most accomplished Shakespearean scholars...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:496

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Spoiled: Stories (Book)

Caitlin Macy

ISBN:9780812971729

Caitlin Macy's debut novel "The Fundamentals of Play" was heralded as a Gatsbyesque examination of love and class in Manhattan. Now, in her sophisticated and provocative story collection "Spoiled...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:232

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Strength in What Remains (Book)

Tracy Kidder

ISBN:9780812977615

In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man's inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:284

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Book)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

ISBN:9780812973815

A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:480

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The Black Tulip (Book)

Milt Bearden

ISBN:9780375760839

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The Death of Conservatism: The Movement and Its Consequences (Book)

Sam Tanenhaus

ISBN:9780812981032

Sam Tanenhaus's essay ""Conservatism Is Dead"" prompted intense discussion and debate when it was published in "The New Republic "in the first days of Barack Obama's presidency. Now Tanenhaus...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:135

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The Immortal Class (Book)

Travis Hugh Culley

ISBN:9780375760242

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The Imperfectionists (Book)

Tom Rachman

ISBN:9780385343671

One of most acclaimed books of the year, " "Tom Rachman's debut novel follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters and editors of an English-language newspaper in Rome....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:281

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The Information Officer (Book)

Mark Mills

ISBN:9780812980202

In the summer of 1942, Max Chadwick is the British officer charged with manipulating the news on Malta to bolster the population's fragile esprit de corps...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:276

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The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty (Book)

Peter Singer

ISBN:9780812981568

This is the right time to ask yourself: "What should I be doing to help?"
For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. Yet around the world...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:214

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The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (Book)

Thomas Mullen

ISBN:9780812979299

In award-winning author Thomas Mullen's evocative and spirited novel, we follow the Depression-era adventures of Jason and Whit Fireson--bank robbers known as the Firefly Brothers by an adoring public that worships their acts as heroic counterpunches thrown at a broken system. Late one night in August 1934...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:415

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The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World (Book)

Holger H Herwig

ISBN:9780812978292

For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:391

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The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future (Book)

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

ISBN:9780812979770

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political...more details
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The Privileges (Book)

Jonathan Dee

ISBN:9780812980790

Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new life...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:269

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The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time (Book)

Judith Shulevitz

ISBN:9780812971736

What is the Sabbath, anyway? The holy day of rest? The first effort to protect the rights of workers? A smart way to manage stress in a world in which computers never get turned off and work never comes to an end? Or simply an oppressive...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:250

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The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps (Book)

William Styron

ISBN:9780812980240

Before writing his memoir of madness, "Darkness Visible," William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction-including "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and "Sophie's Choice...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:194

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The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself (Book)

Hannah Holmes

ISBN:9780812976298

DID YOU KNOW THAT
- we have more hair follicles than a chimpanzee
- a male boxer in top condition can punch with the force of a thirteen-pound...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:351

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Three Films of Woody Allen: Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Cassandra's Dream; Match Point (Book)

Woody Allen

ISBN:9781400069149

Three more marvelously readable screenplays of movies by the incomparable Woody Allen. Stills throughout....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:400

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Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show (Book)

Frank DeLaney

ISBN:9780812979732

January 1932: Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish countryside. After a two-hour kaleidoscope of low comedy...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:436

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Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction (Book)

Amy Bloom

ISBN:9780812977806

Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Away." Bloom's astonishing and astute stories illuminate the mysteries of passion...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:215

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Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews (Book)

Christian Lander

ISBN:9780812982060

HOW WHITE YOU ARE
If you thought you had white people pegged as Oscar-party-throwing, Prius-driving, Sunday "New York Times"-reading, self-satisfied latte lovers--you were right. But if you thought diversity was just for other races...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:232

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Wife of the Gods (Book)

Kwei Quartey

ISBN:9780812979367

Lyrical and captivating, Kwei Quartey's debut novel brings to life the majesty and charm of Ghana-from the capital city of Accra to a small community where long-buried secrets are about to rise to the surface.
In a shady grove outside the small town of Ketanu...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:319

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Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Death in Africa (Book)

Mark Seal

ISBN:9780812979091

Wildflower is a compelling work of narrative nonfiction in which the shocking death of a dedicated environmentalist becomes a broader story of a beautiful...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:234

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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City (Book)

Anthony Flint

ISBN:9780812981360

The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:231

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