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  • MONSTERS OF THE WEEK
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    MONSTERS OF THE WEEK
    ZACK HANDLEN / EMILY TODD VANDERWERFF
    The complete critical companion to The X-Files, covering every episode and both films and featuring interviews with screenwriters and stars. In Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files, TV critics Zack Handlen and Emily Todd VanDerWerff look back at exactly what made the long-running cult series so groundbreaking. Packed with insightful reviews of ev...

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  • WILDE'S WOMEN
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    WILDE'S WOMEN
    ELEANOR FITZSIMONS
    “A lively debut biography of the flamboyant Irish writer . . . focusing on the women who loved and supported him” (Kirkus Reviews).   In this essential work, Eleanor Fitzsimons reframes Oscar Wilde’s story and his legacy through the women in his life, including such scintillating figures as Florence Balcombe; actress Lillie Langtry; and his tragic and witty niece, Dolly, who, l...

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  • THE LAST ESCAPER
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    THE LAST ESCAPER
    PETER TUNSTALL
    “A remarkable memoir of a British lad’s salad days flying bombers against the Nazis and then repeatedly escaping their prison camps” (Kirkus Reviews).   The product of a lifetime’s reflection, The Last Escaper is Peter Tunstall’s unforgettable memoir of his days in the British Royal Air Force and as one of the most celebrated British POWs of World War II. Tunstall was an infamo...

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    "R.F.K. MUST DIE!"
    ROBERT BLAIR KAISER
    The definitive text on the mystery of R.F.K.’s assassination by a reporter who “got inside this story . . . with his impressive grasp of all the loose ends” (Kirkus Reviews).   On the night of June 4, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a steamy pantry of the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel. Kennedy and his entourage had been celebrating his victory in th...

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  • HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
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    HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
    JENS ANDERSEN
    “Andersen provides a fascinating backdrop for the life of the acclaimed fairy tale writer . . . a budding genius placed in the context of his time.” —Publishers Weekly   Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book wr...

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  • OVERGROUND RAILROAD
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    OVERGROUND RAILROAD
    CANDACY A. TAYLOR
    This historical exploration of the Green Book offers “a fascinating [and] sweeping story of black travel within Jim Crow America across four decades” (The New York Times Book Review). Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because they couldn...

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  • WAR DOCTOR
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    WAR DOCTOR
    DAVID NOTT
    #1 International Bestseller: A frontline trauma surgeon tells his “riveting” true story of operating in the world’s most dangerous war zones (The Times).   For more than twenty-five years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most perilous conflict zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993 to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried...

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  • THE LOST FAMILY
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    THE LOST FAMILY
    LIBBY COPELAND
    “A fascinating exploration of the mysteries ignited by DNA genealogy testing—from the intensely personal and concrete to the existential and unsolvable.” —Tana French, New York Times–bestselling author You swab your cheek or spit in a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certa...

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  • HEALING POLITICS
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    HEALING POLITICS
    ABDUL EL-SAYED
    A memoir about restoring the health of our people, and our democracy, from a physician and “one of the brightest young stars” of the progressive movement (Sen. Bernie Sanders). A child of immigrants, Abdul El-Sayed grew up feeling a responsibility to help others. He threw himself into the study of medicine and excelled—winning a Rhodes Scholarship, earning two advanced degrees,...

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  • HOLLYWOOD DOUBLE AGENT
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    HOLLYWOOD DOUBLE AGENT
    JONATHAN GILL
    This true story of Golden Age Hollywood and Cold War espionage is a “captivating, fast-paced narrative [that] reads like a thriller” (Library Journal). Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and ’40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J...

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  • LAUGH LINES
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    LAUGH LINES
    ALAN ZWEIBEL
    With his tender, funny memoir of four decades in the business, one of the first writers for Saturday Night Live traces the history of American comedy.   Alan Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to the last of the Borscht Belt standups. Then one night, despite bombing on stage, he caught the attention of Lorne Michaels and became one of the f...

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  • ONE LAST LUNCH
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    ONE LAST LUNCH
    ERICA HELLER
    In this heartwarming essay collection, dozens of authors, actors, artists and others imagine one last lunch with someone they cherished.   A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn’t love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just t...

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  • AU REVOIR, TRISTESSE
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    AU REVOIR, TRISTESSE
    VIV GROSKOP
    “Groskop skillfully juggles memoir, biography, philosophy, and literary criticism to create a delightful tour through some of French literature’s greats.” —Madeline Miller, New York Times–bestselling author Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at ag...

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  • THE FIXED STARS
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    THE FIXED STARS
    MOLLY WIZENBERG
    The New York Times–bestselling author’s thoughtful and provocative memoir of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships.   At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as ...

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  • THE TIMOTHY LEARY PROJECT
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    THE TIMOTHY LEARY PROJECT
    JENNIFER ULRICH
    The life of Timothy Leary is examined through papers and correspondence preserved in his archive. The first collection of Timothy Leary’s (1920–1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out,” L...

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  • GROCERY
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    GROCERY
    MICHAEL RUHLMAN
    The New York Times–bestselling author “digs deep into the world of how we shop and how we eat. It’s a marvelous, smart, revealing work” (Susan Orlean, #1 bestselling author). In a culture obsessed with food—how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us—there are often more questions than answers. Ruhlman proposes that the best practices for consumi...

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  • A STASH OF ONE'S OWN
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    A STASH OF ONE'S OWN
    CLARA PARKES
    In this anthology from the author of The Yarn Whisperer, twenty-one devoted knitters examine a subject that is irresistible to us all: the yarn stash. Anyone with a passion has a stash, whether it is a collection of books or enough yarn to exceed several life expectancies. With her trademark wit, Clara Parkes brings together fascinating stories from all facets of stash-keeping ...

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  • THE DISPLACED
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    THE DISPLACED
    VIET THANH NGUYEN
    “Powerful and deeply moving personal stories about the physical and emotional toll one endures when forced out of one’s homeland.” —PBS Online In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The...

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  • NO ONE MAN SHOULD HAVE ALL THAT POWER
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    NO ONE MAN SHOULD HAVE ALL THAT POWER
    AMOS BARSHAD
    In this exploration of shadowy, behind-the-scenes operators, “each portrait provides an incisive dissection of the acquisition and maintenance of power” (The Nation). Journalist Amos Barshad has long been fascinated by the powerful. But not by elected officials or natural leaders—he’s interested in the dark figures who wield power from the shadows. And, as Barshad shows in No O...

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  • A LIFE IN MOVIES
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    A LIFE IN MOVIES
    IRWIN WINKLER
    “A lively memoir . . . a first-hand work of cinema history . . . the testament of a pivotal figure in American moviemaking.” —Martin Scorsese The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, Creed, and The Irishman. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy Awa...

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  • HOT, COLD, HEAVY, LIGHT, 100 ART WRITINGS 1988–2018
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    HOT, COLD, HEAVY, LIGHT, 100 ART WRITINGS 1988–2018
    PETER SCHJELDAHL
    100 key writings from spanning across thirty years of the acclaimed New Yorker art critic’s career. Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light collects 100 key writings by Peter Schjeldahl spinning thirty years, his last twenty as the art critic of the New Yorker. In this unfailingly lucid guide to an art world in constant, dramatic flux, Schjeldahl addresses new artists and Old Masters with the ...

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  • THE CIDER REVIVAL
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    THE CIDER REVIVAL
    JASON WILSON
    “From unraveling the history of the apple to exploring the intricacies of flavor, [Wilson] reveals the love and labor that goes into a timeless beverage.” —Bianca Bosker, New York Times–bestselling author of Cork Dork Cider is the quintessential American beverage. Drank by early settlers and founding fathers, it was ubiquitous and pervasive, but following Prohibition when orcha...

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  • VANISHING FLEECE
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    VANISHING FLEECE
    CLARA PARKES
    The renowned knitter shares her year-long adventure through America’s colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry. Join Clara Parkes as she ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters a flock of Saxon Mer...

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  • ON NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
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    ON NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
    D.J. TAYLOR
    The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century—and now the twenty-first. Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell’s 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have...

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  • WOMEN ON FOOD
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    WOMEN ON FOOD
    CHARLOTTE DRUCKMAN
    “A mix of essays, Q&As and short riffs . . . writing that is combative, funny, skeptical, angry, occasionally sanctimonious and altogether riveting.” —NPR.org Edited by Charlotte Druckman and featuring esteemed food journalists and thinkers, including Soleil Ho, Nigella Lawson, Diana Henry, Carla Hall, Samin Nosrat, Rachael Ray, and many others, this compilation illuminates the...

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  • ASIAN WATERS
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    ASIAN WATERS
    HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY
    “Seamlessly connects geography, history and great power intrigue across the entire Indo-Pacific region, increasingly the fulcrum of world history.” —James Clad, Director, Asian Security Programs at the American Foreign Policy Council In the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mi...

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  • BETWEEN THE SHEETS
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    BETWEEN THE SHEETS
    LESLEY MCDOWELL
    The literary critic examines the love lives and career ambitions of some of the twentieth century’s greatest female authors—from Sylvia Plath to Anaïs Nin.   Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) want to marry Ezra Pound when she was far more attracted to women? Why did Simone de Beauvoir pimp...

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  • THE NIGHT CASEY WAS BORN
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    THE NIGHT CASEY WAS BORN
    JOHN EVANGELIST WALSH
    The acclaimed biographer offers a social history of the poem that helped America fall in love with baseball—a lively story that “hits it out of the park” (The Baltimore Sun).   The sport that came to be known as America’s Pastime was still in its infancy when a journalist for the San Francisco Examiner wrote a ballad extolling the drama and excitement of the game. Ernest L. Tha...

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  • OPERATION KRONSTADT
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    OPERATION KRONSTADT
    HARRY FERGUSON
    An MI6 officer’s account of a heart-pounding mission to rescue a spy trapped in Russia, “as exciting as anything found in fiction” (Daily Mail).   Paul Dukes, a thirty-year-old concert pianist, was a master of disguise—dubbed ‘The Man with a Hundred Faces’—and an English spy in Russia. As the First World War was drawing to a close, and as the revolutionaries sought to consolida...

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  • CHOKING ON MARLON BRANDO
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    CHOKING ON MARLON BRANDO
    ANTONIA QUIRKE
    In this witty and bittersweet memoir, the film critic shares her misadventures as a lover of film stars who seeks movie romance in the real world.   Antonia Quirke was ten years old when she first saw Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. It was the first film she ever saw, and her reaction was so intense that her parents called an ambulance. So began her lifelong love of ...

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