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White House Diary
$38.99 Add to cartThe edited, annotated New York Times bestselling diary of President Jimmy Carter–filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues th
- Author: Carter, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0312577192
- Language: English
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The Book of All Books
$20.99 Add to cartA book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellectual superstar Roberto Calasso, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one
- Author: Calasso, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250859026
- Language: English
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Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
$32.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Both controversi
The first comprehensive biography of the most influential, controversial, and celebrated Palestinian intellectual of the twentieth century.- Author: Brennan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829682
- Language: English
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
$17.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR
An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. –Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a- Author: Minoui, Delphine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 125080017X
- Language: English
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Left Bank
$25.99 Add to cartAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.
In this- Author: Poirier, Agn?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1250231469
- Language: English
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Barefoot Lawyer
$25.99 Add to cart” Chen’s] story is a reminder that the desire for basic human rights . . . arises from the deep well of the human spirit.”–The New York Times Book Review
It was like a scene out of a thriller: One ni- Author: Guangcheng, Chen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1250081599
- Language: English
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I Left It on the Mountain
$21.99 Add to cartOn his fifty-third birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. For years he had interviewed the bright lights–… [more below]
- Author: Sessums, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1250078180
- Language: English
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Trip to Echo Spring
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2014
Olivia Laing’s widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of the greatest works of America
A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250063736
- Language: English
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Rise to Greatness
$32.99 Add to cartAuthor of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death’s door. The government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke,
New York Times Bestseller- Author: Von Drehle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037808
- Language: English
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Diaghilev’s Empire
$20.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year at The New Yorker and The Telegraph
“Amusing and assertive . . . [Christiansen’s] delight is infectious.” –Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review Rupert Christiansen- Author: Christiansen, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872537
- Language: English
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The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery
$28.99 Add to cartA fascinating look at history’s losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again
History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argue- Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 403
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423195
- Language: English
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Mississippi Sissy
$25.99 Add to cartMississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the
- Author: Sessums, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0312341024
- Language: English
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Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
$20.00 Add to cartA haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of
- Author: Ball, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798612
- Language: English
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City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
$20.00 Add to cartNow one of Kirkus Reviews‘ Best Books of the Year
From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking–winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold D- Author: French, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250170591
- Language: English
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Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
$25.99 Add to cart“[Schulte’s] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America’s leisure time, and how do we get it back?”–Lev Grossman, Time
When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two,- Author: Schulte, Brigid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062381
- Language: English
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
$23.99 Add to cartOne smart book…delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name.–Newsweek
Bodily waste is common to all and as natural as breathing. We prefer not to talk a- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1250058309
- Language: English
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We Killed
$25.99 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
We Killed shines in its details and its anecdotes….Well crafted and entertaining.–The Boston Glob
A Very Oral History
With a New Introduction by the Author- Author: Kohen, Yael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037786
- Language: English
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Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
$28.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers- Author: Miller, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 125000232X
- Language: English
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Realigners
$21.00 Add to cartA VITAL NEW VOICE: Shenk is a leading new voice of the millennial left, and a rising historian who’s something of a prodigy. His ambitious dissertation Inventing the American Economy will be published
- Author: Shenk, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872936
- Language: English
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Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop
$20.00 Add to cartThe profoundly moving family history of one of America’s greatest newspapermen.
As his father lies dying, Joseph Lelyveld finds himself in the basement of the Cleveland synagogue where Arthur Lelyveld- Author: Lelyveld, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425104
- Language: English
