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  • THE SHELF
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    THE SHELF
    PHYLLIS ROSE
    "Exhilarating, adventurous, original . . . The Shelf is a reminder of what reading and writing are all about." —Azar Nafisi,#1 New York Times– bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran After a career of reading from syllabuses and writing about canonical books, Phyllis Rose decided to read like an explorer. Casting herself into the untracked wilderness of the New York Soci...

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  • THE ASSASSINS' GATE
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    THE ASSASSINS' GATE
    GEORGE PACKER
    "The most complete, sweeping, and powerful account of the Iraq War." — New York Magazine Hailed as "the definitive book about the Iraq War" by Salon, The Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war...

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  • THE FRENCH INTIFADA
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    THE FRENCH INTIFADA
    ANDREW HUSSEY
    This provocative look at France's relationship with the Arab world offers a "bracing mix of journalism and history [that] couldn't be more timely" (Mitchell Cohen, The New York Times Book Review). To fully understand the social and political pressures wracking contemporary France—and, indeed, all of Europe—we must look beyond domestic issues. Unemployment, economic stagnation, ...

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  • HOTEL FLORIDA
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    HOTEL FLORIDA
    AMANDA VAILL
    "[An] utterly compelling account . . . of the intrepid—and sometimes crazy—journalists who risked everything to report on the Spanish Civil War." —Amanda Foreman, New York Times–bestselling author Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century" —six people meet...

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  • LABOR DAY
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    LABOR DAY
    ELEANOR HENDERSON
    "Beautiful, heart-wrenching" personal stories of giving birth by Lauren Groff, Julia Glass, Dani Shapiro, Cristina Henriquez, Cheryl Strayed, and many more ( Booklist). In Labor Day, you'll read about women determined to give birth naturally and others begging for epidurals; women who pushed for hours and women whose labors were over practically before they'd started; women giv...

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  • WAR! WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
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    WAR! WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
    IAN MORRIS
    A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society—for the better. "War!. . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song—but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer. In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and...

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  • LOST AND FOUND IN JOHANNESBURG
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    LOST AND FOUND IN JOHANNESBURG
    MARK GEVISSER
    An intimate map of the South African city during and after apartheid: "Illuminating, unsettling, engrossing, often funny, and, in a word, brilliant." —Claire Messud, New York Times–bestselling author of This Strange Eventful History Lost and Found in Johannesburg begins with a transgression—the armed invasion of a private home in the city of Mark Gevisser's birth. But far more ...

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  • COLLECTED FRENCH TRANSLATIONS
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    COLLECTED FRENCH TRANSLATIONS
    JOHN ASHBERY
    An essential, vibrant collection of masterful translations by one of the finest poets at work today Collected French Translations: Prose, the second volume in a landmark two-volume selection of John Ashbery's translations, focuses on prose writing. Ashbery's own prose writings and engagement with prose writers—through translations, essays, and criticism—have had a profound impa...

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  • A FORT OF NINE TOWERS
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    A FORT OF NINE TOWERS
    QAIS AKBAR OMAR
    One of the rare memoirs of Afghanistan to have been written by an Afghan, A Fort of Nine Towers reveals the richness and suffering of life in a country whose history has become deeply entwined with our own. For the young Qais Akbar Omar, Kabul was a city of gardens where he flew kites from his grandfather's roof with his cousin Wakeel while their parents, uncles, and aunts dran...

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  • TALKING TO OURSELVES
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    TALKING TO OURSELVES
    ANDRÉS NEUMAN
    A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices One trip. Two love stories. Three voices. Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard. His father, Mario, anxious to create a memory that will last for his son's lifetime, takes him on a road trip in a truck called Pedro. But Lito doesn't know that this ...

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  • THE END OF THE STORY
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    THE END OF THE STORY
    LYDIA DAVIS
    From an award-winning author, a literary novel about a woman's romantic obsession "is not only beautiful, but an extraordinary and very modern achievement" ( The New York Observer ). Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair—such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she attempts to o...

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  • THE RIVERMAN
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    THE RIVERMAN
    AARON STARMER
    Alistair Cleary is the kid who everyone trusts. Fiona Loomis is not the typical girl next door. Alistair hasn't really thought of her since they were little kids until she shows up at his doorstep with a proposition: she wants him to write her biography. What begins as an odd vanity project gradually turns into a frightening glimpse into the mind of a potentially troubled girl....

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  • ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
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    ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
    DAVIDE ENIA
    A dark, gripping coming-of-age tale that explores violence, friendship, family, and what it means to be a man Summer, Palermo, early 1980s. The air hangs hot and heavy. The Mafia-ruled city is a powder keg ready to ignite. In a boxing gym, a fatherless nine-year-old boy climbs into the ring to face his first opponent. So begins On Earth as It Is in Heaven, a sweeping multigener...

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  • MFA VS NYC
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    MFA VS NYC
    CHAD HARBACH
    "Collectively thought-provoking and provocative . . . Essential insights, masterfully assembled, on the precarious state of American publishing." — Kirkus Reviews Writers write—but what do they do for money? In a widely read essay entitled "MFA vs NYC," bestselling novelist Chad Harbach ( The Art of Fielding) argued that the American literary scene has split into two cultures: ...

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  • O STARRY STARRY NIGHT
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    O STARRY STARRY NIGHT
    DEREK WALCOTT
    Two masterful artists—Gauguin and van Gogh—come alive in a vibrant drama about friendship, art, and madness Two painters—Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh—are living together in the sleepy town of Arles in 1888. Soon, Gauguin, frustrated by van Gogh's refusal to acknowledge his increasingly troubled mind, will depart for Paris. In two years, van Gogh will be dead by his own han...

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  • THE TASTEMAKER
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    THE TASTEMAKER
    EDWARD WHITE
    A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who created some of the Jazz Age's most sal...

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  • MORE THAN CONQUERORS
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    MORE THAN CONQUERORS
    MEGAN HUSTAD
    Megan Hustad and her family try to reconcile an evangelical upbringing in a post-Christian America When Megan Hustad was a child, her father uprooted their family from Minneapolis to embark on a cross-cultural journey in the name of evangelical Christianity. As missionaries they brought the Gospel to the Caribbean island of Bonaire and later to the outskirts of Amsterdam. After...

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  • MARSHLANDS
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    MARSHLANDS
    MATTHEW OLSHAN
    "A first novel of considerable maturity: powerful, original, cunningly constructed, and timely." —Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an Ending After years alone in a cell, an aging prisoner is released without explanation, expelled into a great city now utterly unfamiliar to him. Broken by years of brutality at the hands of the prison guards, he scrounges for scraps, sleepin...

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  • STRANGE BODIES
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    STRANGE BODIES
    MARCEL THEROUX
    A patient in a mental hospital claims to be a dead man in this dizzying novel of deception and psychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North . "A page-turning, thought-provoking, exhilarating novel . . . 'Thriller' may be a somewhat misleading label to fasten on a modern fable that also has elements of science fiction, dystopia, and domestic comedy. But ...

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  • FINDERS KEEPERS
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    FINDERS KEEPERS
    SEAMUS HEANEY
    Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?" Along with a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (...

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  • THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE
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    THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE
    SEAMUS HEANEY
    In his volume of critical essays The Government of the Tongue, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself. ...

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  • DIARY OF ONE WHO VANISHED
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    DIARY OF ONE WHO VANISHED
    LEOS JANACEK / SEAMUS HEANEY
    A Cycle of Love Songs Translated by the Nobel Laureate "Dappled woodland light, Spring well chill and bright, Eyes like stars at night, Open knees so white. Four things death itself won't cover, Unforgettable forever." In 1917, while reading his local newspaper, the Czech composer Leos Janacek discovered the poems that he was to set to music in his song cycle Diary of One Who V...

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  • ELECTRIC LIGHT
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    ELECTRIC LIGHT
    SEAMUS HEANEY
    A powerful new collection by the bestselling translator of Beowulf. In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold In the everything flows and steady go of the world. --from "Perch" Seamus Heaney's new collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world and revisiting the poet's childhoo...

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  • THE REDRESS OF POETRY
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    THE REDRESS OF POETRY
    SEAMUS HEANEY
    "Self-deprecating but delighting . . . a wonderful addition to the Heaney canon—as life-enhancing in its own way as the poems it celebrates." —Andrew Motion, The Guardian Nobel Prize–Winning Poet Heaney's ten lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, collected here in The Redress of Poetry, explore the poetry of a wide range of writers, from Christopher Marlowe to John Clare t...

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  • SELECTED POEMS 1966–1987
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    SELECTED POEMS 1966–1987
    SEAMUS HEANEY
    "Between my fingers and my thumb The squat pen rests. I'll dig with it." Selected Poems 1966-1987 assembles the groundbreaking work of the first half of Seamus Heaney's extraordinary career. This edition, arranged by the author himself, includes the seminal early poetry that struck readers with the force of revelation and heralded the arrival of an heir to Gerard Manley Hopkins...

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  • PREOCCUPATIONS
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    PREOCCUPATIONS
    SEAMUS HEANEY
    Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick K...

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  • THE HAW LANTERN
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    THE HAW LANTERN
    SEAMUS HEANEY
    This collection of thirty-one poems is Seamus Heaney's first since Station Island. The Haw Lantern is a magnificent book that further extends the range of a poet who has always put his trust in the possibilities of the language. ...

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  • WHY I READ
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    WHY I READ
    WENDY LESSER
    "A delectably sophisticated inquiry into why reading is a constant source of pleasure and provocation." — Booklist "Reading Why I Read delivers all the pleasure of discussing one's favorite books with a marvelously articulate, intelligent, opinionated friend. It's like joining the book club of your dreams." —Francine Prose "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, ...

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  • STRANGER IN MY OWN COUNTRY
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    STRANGER IN MY OWN COUNTRY
    YASCHA MOUNK
    "How do things stand with German Jews [today]? In Stranger in My Own Country, Yascha Mounk gives an artful and thoughtful answer." —Paul Reitter, Bookforum As a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about the superiority of the Aryan race. Others, sincerely hopin...

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  • WARSAW 1944
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    WARSAW 1944
    ALEXANDRA RICHIE
    Historian Alexandra Rich presents the full untold story of how one of history's bravest revolts ended in one of its greatest crimes. In 1943, the Nazis liquidated Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. A year later, they threatened to complete the city's destruction by deporting its remaining residents. A sophisticated and cosmopolitan community a thousand years old was facing its final days—...

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