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When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History’s Unknown Chapters
$19.00 Read moreObscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton
The first installment in Giles Milton’s outrageously entertaining series, History’s Unknown- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1250078776
- Language: English
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Letters to Camondo
$22.00 Read moreA tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Mo?e de Camondo.
63 rue de Monceau, Paris
Dear friend,
As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by- Author: de Waal, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1250851068
- Language: English
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Silence of the Grave: An Inspector Erlendur Novel
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award
Inspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a construction site outside of Reykjav k, Inspector Erle- Series: Inspector Erlendur #2
- Author: Indridason, Arnaldur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427328
- Language: English
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Death in the Andes
$19.00 Read morePlunge into the heart of the remote Peruvian Andes in Mario Vargas Llosa’s stunning novel, Death in the Andes.
This narrative weaves an intricate tapestry of stark political realities, age-old Andean- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427255
- Language: English
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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
$19.00 Read morePart autobiography, part sociological study, part travel memoir–Christ Stopped at Eboli is a reissue of Carlo Levi’s classic book on life in a small, desolate Italian town during the 1930s.
It was to- Author: Levi, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1250623081
- Language: English
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Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
$19.99 Read moreBarbara Ehrenreich’s New York Times bestselling Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism
Americans- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0312658850
- Language: English
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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
$19.99 Read moreThe untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph.
In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the U- Author: Kluger, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1250182514
- Language: English
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The Painted Word
$17.00 Read more“America’s nerviest journalist” (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this “masterpiece” (The Washington Post)
Wolfe’s style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He ad- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427581
- Language: English
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The Mere Wife
$19.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers–a housewife and a battle-hardened veteran-
- Author: Headley, Maria Dahvana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1250214947
- Language: English
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Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
$19.00 Read more“A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection.” –Heller McAlpin, NPR.org
Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub’s 15 Books You Should Read in Septemb- Author: Kaag, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234689
- Language: English
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Homo Irrealis: The Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
Irrealis mood- Author: Aciman, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829283
- Language: English
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Graceland
$23.99 Add to cartGraceland is a dazzling debut by a singular new talent
The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to ma- Author: Abani, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0312425287
- Language: English
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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
$21.00 Read moreFrom Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old archite- Author: Uglow, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872561
- Language: English
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I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon
$24.00 Read more“I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise is like an exquisite string of pearls: the perfect balance of elegance, style, design, and beauty. This book is inspiring, spirited, and totally absorbing.” –Diane
- Author: Griswold, Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872626
- Language: English
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Reward System: Stories
$18.00 Read more“Reward System is an exhilarating and beautiful book by an extraordinarily gifted writer. Reading these stories, I found myself thinking newly and differently about contemporary life.” –Sally Rooney,
- Author: Calder, Jem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872898
- Language: English
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
$22.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the in- Author: Szalavitz, Maia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1250116449
- Language: English
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Slumberland
$16.00 Read moreThe hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger.
Hailed b- Author: Beatty, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250789419
- Language: English
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Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
$20.00 Read moreA prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane
In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war, with the United States exercising dominion everywhere. In Humane,- Author: Moyn, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858712
- Language: English
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What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
$20.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A most anticipated book of 2022 at Vulture and Kirkus Reviews
A leading historian tells the story of the United States’ most enduring political party and its- Author: Kazin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1250862892
- Language: English
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Words on the Move: Why English Won’t – And Can’t – Sit Still (Like, Literally)
$20.99 Add to cartLanguage is always changing, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean “figuratively,” or the way young people use LOL or business ja
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1250143780
- Language: English
