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  • Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

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    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. The Sunday Times (UK) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018.

    “A magisterial portrait.” —
    Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,

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    • Author: Walker, Alan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 768
    • Publish Date: December 03 2019
    • ISBN10: 1250234824
    • Language: English
  • The Two-Penny Bar (Inspector Maigret)

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    In the heart of the Parisian summer, a forgotten crime comes to light in this Inspector Maigret tale from Georges Simenon.

    On the eve of his death, a condemned man remembers a crime he witnessed year

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    • Series: Inspector Maigret #11
    • Author: Simenon, Georges
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 09 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250398053
    • Language: English
  • Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street (Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition)

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    An updated edition of the classic book that introduced the world to the controversial money-making formula known as the Kelly system.

    In 1956, two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formul

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    • Author: Poundstone, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: December 09 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250391121
    • Language: English
  • The Skating Rink

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    “One of the greatest and most influential modern writers.” –James Wood, The New York Times Book Review

    “Bola?o is the real thing.” —n+1

    In the quiet Spanish seaside town of Z, a horrific crime has b

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    • Author: Bolaño, Roberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: December 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250898064
    • Language: English
  • Q: A Voyage Around the Queen

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    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
    The Telegraph (Top 10) – The Washington Post – The Guardian – The Times (London) Independent (London) – Vox – New Statesman

    Virginia Woolf compared her to a caterpillar; Anne Fr

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    • Author: Brown, Craig
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 672
    • Publish Date: September 30 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250397650
    • Language: English
  • The Mark and the Void: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition)

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    From the author of the beloved bestseller The Bee Sting, a 10th anniversary reissue of his brilliant second novel–“laugh-out-loud funny . . . A sharply intelligent satire” (The New York Times Book Re

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    • Author: Murray, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: November 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250374022
    • Language: English
  • Lush Life

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    A National Bestseller
    A New York Times
    Notable Book of the Year

    One of the most acclaimed novels of the year, Richard Price’s Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the

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    • Author: Price, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: November 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250398215
    • Language: English
  • Posthumous Stories

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    “One of the more colorful gods in the pantheon of international literary myth . . . [Bola?o] follows his restless talent down every available rabbit hole.” –Sam Anderson, New York

    “When I read Robert

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    • Author: Bolaño, Roberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: December 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250352177
    • Language: English
  • V13: Chronicle of a Trial

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    ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST‘S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024

    One of the London Times‘s Nine Best Literary Nonfiction Books of the Year

    “Extraordinary . . . Absolutely gripping.” –Chris Power, The Guardian

    “Mo

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    • Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: November 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250397790
    • Language: English
  • Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

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    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST

    An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster–and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today

    When the news broke in 1975

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    • Author: Phillips-Fein, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: April 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 1250160073
    • Language: English
  • Lazarus Man

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    In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.

    East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tene

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    • Author: Price, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: November 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250397820
    • Language: English
  • The Information

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    A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelist’s absurd quest to sabotage his more successful rival–with a new introduction by James Wood.

    Richard Tull, a failed and disillus

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    • Author: Amis, Martin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: October 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250414865
    • Language: English
  • The Saint-Fiacre Affair (Inspector Maigret)

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    An evocative tale from Georges Simenon that unearths the inspector’s past: Maigret finds an anonymous note predicting a crime in his hometown.

    I wish to inform you that a crime will be committed at the

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    • Series: Inspector Maigret #13
    • Author: Simenon, Georges
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250398096
    • Language: English
  • Female Trouble: A Screenplay

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    “Burroughs famously dubbed Waters the Pope of Trash. Female Trouble, we might say, is his Summa Trashologica.”
    Ed Halter, The Criterion Collection

    It all goes to hell when Baltimore bad girl Dawn Dav

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    • Author: Waters, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: October 21 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250371252
    • Language: English
  • Multiple Maniacs: A Screenplay

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    A very John Waters traveling show, replete with freaks, robbery, murder, sex, blasphemy, and savage shellfish–a lurid, surreal celebration of camp and trash.

    The Cavalcade of Perversion is a traveli

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    • Author: Waters, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 21 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250371317
    • Language: English
  • The Night at the Crossroads (Inspector Maigret)

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    Another riveting tale from Georges Simenon, in which two siblings, living in isolation, are suspects in a tale of deception, theft, and murder.

    It’s been seventeen hours of interrogation, yet Carl And

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    • Series: Inspector Maigret #6
    • Author: Simenon, Georges
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: June 03 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250391040
    • Language: English
  • The Purple Decades: A Reader

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    The essential collection of Tom Wolfe’s writing on a turning-point era in modern American culture, newly repackaged and reissued with the original introduction by Joe David Bellamy.

    It was in the 1960

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    • Author: Wolfe, Tom
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: May 13 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250352665
    • Language: English
  • Close to Home

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    “Michael Magee’s dead-on debut novel is universal.” The New York Times Book Review

    While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he’s supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he–most

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    • Author: Magee, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 14 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250335787
    • Language: English
  • Annihilation

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    Michel Houellebecq’s international bestseller– a thrilling, ambitious, and unexpectedly tender chronicle of modern existence.

    It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay.

    As

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    • Author: Houellebecq, Michel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: October 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 125039760X
    • Language: English
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