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  • The Journey to the East

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    “A great writer . . . complex, subtle, allusive.” – New York Times Book Review

    In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse’s Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H.,

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    • Author: Hesse, Hermann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: February 01 2003
    • ISBN10: 0312421680
    • Language: English
  • City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism

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    Award-winning journalist Jim Krane charts the history of Dubai from its earliest days, considers the influence of the family who has ruled it since the nineteenth century, and looks at the effect of t

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    • Author: Krane, Jim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: November 23 2010
    • ISBN10: 0312655436
    • Language: English
  • The Storyteller

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    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the e

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    • Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: November 03 2001
    • ISBN10: 0312420285
    • Language: English
  • Wonder State

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    From the author of Girl One comes a spellbinding adventure about a strange power lurking in the Arkansas Ozarks, and the group of friends obsessed with finding it.

    Five friends arrive back in Eternal

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    • Author: Murphy, Sara Flannery
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: July 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 125033568X
    • Language: English
  • Groundwork

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    From the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy, an updated collection of Paul Auster’s nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude.

    Paul Auster spent his fifty-y

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    • Author: Auster, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 656
    • Publish Date: May 05 2020
    • ISBN10: 125024580X
    • Language: English
  • Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

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    What does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across musical languages and generations, from Detroit techno to jam bands

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    • Author: Ratliff, Ben
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: February 14 2017
    • ISBN10: 1250117992
    • Language: English
  • Losing Earth: A Recent History

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    By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change–including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely

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    • Author: Rich, Nathaniel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 17 2020
    • ISBN10: 1250251257
    • Language: English
  • Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981

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    Foucault must be reckoned with. —The New York Times Book Review

    Praise for Foucault’s Lectures at the Coll ge de France Series
    “Ideas spark off nearly every page…The words may have been spoken in t

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  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

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    For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. It’s a wonderful, necessary book.”
    – Hillary Clinton

    The four most powerful African American women in politics share the story of their friendship and ho

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    • Author: Brazile, Donna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 01 2019
    • ISBN10: 125013773X
    • Language: English
  • Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment

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    A rollicking, sexy memoir of a young poet making his way in 1960s New York City

    When he graduated from Columbia in 1958, John Giorno was handsome, charismatic, ambitious, and eager to soak up as much o

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    • Author: Giorno, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: August 03 2021
    • ISBN10: 1250798752
    • Language: English
  • Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan

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    An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel’s Nutmeg.

    In 1611, the merchants of London’s East India Company received a mysterious lett

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    • Author: Milton, Giles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: March 09 2021
    • ISBN10: 1250778255
    • Language: English
  • The Vertical Farm (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Feeding the World in the 21st Century

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    The updated tenth anniversary edition, with a new afterword by Gene A. Giacomelli

    The vertical farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. Dickson Despommier’s visionary book provides a

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    • Author: Despommier, Dickson
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: November 17 2020
    • ISBN10: 1250769809
    • Language: English
  • Debt to Pleasure

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    Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food.

    Traveling from Portsmouth to the south of

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    • Author: Lanchester, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: December 07 2001
    • ISBN10: 0312420366
    • Language: English
  • The Shadow District: A Thriller

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    A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason.

    THE PAST
    In wart

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    • Series: Flovent and Thorson Thrillers #1
    • Author: Indridason, Arnaldur
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: May 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 1250138175
    • Language: English
  • The Black Cathedral

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    Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate

    The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos,

    • Author: Gala, Marcial
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 12, 2021
    • ISBN10: 1250785650
    • Language: English
  • Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

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    NOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER

    A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a

    • Author: Rooney, Kathleen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 03, 2018
    • ISBN10: 1250151163
    • Language: English
  • Severance

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    Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic sat

    • Author: Ma, Ling
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 07, 2019
    • ISBN10: 1250214998
    • Language: English
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