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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of “dirty work”–the work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots- Author: Press, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849349
- Language: English
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As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy
$18.00 Add to cartThe story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life.
As It Turns Out is a family story. Alice- Author: Wohl, Alice Sedgwick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872790
- Language: English
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The Transcendentalists and Their World
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the eminent and award-winning historian Robert A. Gross comes his long-awaited, immersive journey through Concord in the age of Emerson and Thoreau, The Transcendentalists and Their World.
One of- Author: Gross, Robert a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250859077
- Language: English
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A Woman’s Battles and Transformations
$16.00 Add to cartA Woman’s Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author’s mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence.
One day, ﾉdouard Louis fi- Author: Louis, Édouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872154
- Language: English
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Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Feed, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies- Author: Robb, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0312426844
- Language: English
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Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture
$30.00 Read more“Remarkable.” –Hamish Bowles, Vogue
Miss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty an
The overdue restoration of Catherine Dior’s extraordinary life, from her brother’s muse to Holocaust survivor- Author: Picardie, Justine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858844
- Language: English
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
$30.00 Read moreAlex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern ar
- Author: Ross, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800080
- Language: English
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High School
$18.00 Read moreNOW AN 8-EPISODE FREEVEE TELEVISION SERIES! — From the iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their
- Author: Quin, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 1250758181
- Language: English
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Argumentative Indian
$28.99 Add to cartIn sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India’s intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy
- Author: Sen, Amartya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 031242602X
- Language: English
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The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
$19.00 Add to cartThe first behind-the-scenes account of life with the legendary ravens at the world’s eeriest monument
The ravens at the Tower of London are of mighty importance: rumor has it that if a raven from the- Author: Skaife, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 125023493X
- Language: English
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Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (Version 2.0, with a New Afterword)
$25.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller – Los Angeles Times Bestseller
One of The Wall Street Journal‘s 10 Books to Read Now – One of Kirkus Reviews‘s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year – One of Publishers Weekly- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141222
- Language: English
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The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
$19.00 Add to cartAn Architectural Record Notable Book
Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between h
A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment- Author: Anthes, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798817
- Language: English
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Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968
$20.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for non
- Author: Ricks, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872529
- Language: English
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
$20.00 Add to cartCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.
Darryl Pin- Author: Pinckney, Darryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1250893550
- Language: English
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Brazil: A Biography
$30.99 Add to cartA sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present
For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extrao- Author: Schwarcz, Lilia M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538484
- Language: English
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Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most lyrically gifted and socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years, Vibrate Higher is a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political force
Before Talib Kweli became a world-r- Author: Kweli, Talib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250787386
- Language: English
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The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
$24.00 Add to cartImagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a liberation where nothing was straight-laced or old-fashioned. And eve
- Author: Gamson, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425694
- Language: English
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
$25.00 Add to cart“An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.” –Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
“The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully writte- Author: Menand, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 125082964X
- Language: English
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Sting in the Tale
$22.00 Add to cartA FACINATING TRAVEL MEMOIR THAT WILL ALTER THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT THE BUMBLEBEE
Dave Goulson became obsessed with wildlife as a small boy growing up in rural Shropshire, starting with an increasingly- Author: Goulson, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 125007097X
- Language: English
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What about the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
$17.00 Add to cartA collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched “virtuoso of language and image” (Rebecca Steinit
- Author: McDermott, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849225
- Language: English
