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The Patch
$17.00 Read moreThe Patch is an “album quilt,” an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book
The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234883
- Language: English
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Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History
$18.00 Read moreWelcome to a work of history unlike any other.
Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity–the- Author: Knott, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 125025129X
- Language: English
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Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
$27.00 Read moreIn this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombing
- Author: Ham, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1250070058
- Language: English
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
$22.00 Add to cartSixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice, in this critically acclaimed, bestselling anthology
One of the most provocative and talked-about books of the yea- Author: Daum, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1250081645
- Language: English
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Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives
$25.99 Add to cartA moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically
It goes without saying that even today, it’s not easy to be gay in America. While young g- Author: Odets, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1250619483
- Language: English
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Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
$23.00 Read moreThe first biography of Shirley Hazzard, the author of The Transit of Venus and a writer of “shocking wisdom” and “intellectual thrill” (The New Yorker).
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life tells the extra- Author: Olubas, Brigitta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872650
- Language: English
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This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can’t
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book by Augusten Burroughs that explores how to survive what you think you can’t.
If you’re fat and fail e- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1250032105
- Language: English
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Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
$30.00 Read moreOn the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues t- Author: Smith, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141265
- Language: English
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Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
$37.99 Add to cartHistory on a grand scale–an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world’s most vibrant civilizations
A People’s Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did “more to help us understand t- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421958
- Language: English
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The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
$19.99 Read moreWinner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism – 2019
Through
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.- Author: Clark, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1250181615
- Language: English
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Babylon Berlin: Book 1 of the Gereon Rath Mystery Series
$19.00 Read moreTHE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLIN
Cabaret on cocaine…captures the dark glamour of a briefly exhilarating time between the wars.–NPR
Babylon Berlin is the first book in the- Series: Gereon Rath Mystery #1
- Author: Kutscher, Volker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1250187044
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartBarbara 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
