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  • MOSTLY VOID, PARTIALLY STARS
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    MOSTLY VOID, PARTIALLY STARS
    JOSEPH FINK / JEFFREY CRANOR
    A collection of scripts from season one of the hit podcast, Welcome to Night Vale, featuring behind-the-scenes commentary & original illustrations. A friendly desert community, where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and the mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Welcome to Night Vale. In June of 2012, the creators of Welcome to Night Vale began air...

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  • THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS
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    THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS
    JT LEROY
    The national bestselling novel-in-stories of a gender nonconforming teen's coming of age is as "vivid as a match held close to the face" ( New York Times). The internationally acclaimed short story collection from JT LeRoy, available once more with a new foreword by Jeff Feuerzeig, writer and director of the documentary, Author: The JT LeRoy Story This book of interconnected st...

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  • SARAH
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    SARAH
    JT LEROY
    National Bestseller Featuring a foreword by Billy Corgan "JT LeRoy's masterful imagination, command of story, and easy sense of the mythological are a rare combination that demands attention." —  Toronto Star Sarah never admits that she's his mother, but the beautiful boy has watched her survive as a "lot lizard": a prostitute working the West Virginia truck stops. Desperate to...

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  • TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND
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    TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND
    SVETLANA ALLILUYEVA
    "Fascinating from the first page to the last . . . A rich and absorbing memoir . . . To be Stalin's daughter and to remain human is itself admirable." — The New York Times Book Review In this riveting,  New York Times–bestselling memoir—first published by Harper in 1967—Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan's critically acclaimed biography,  Stalin's Daugh...

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  • THE PHYSICS OF BASEBALL
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    THE PHYSICS OF BASEBALL
    ROBERT K. ADAIR
    A "fascinating and irresistible" blend of science and sports that reveals what a baseball (or bat, or player) in motion does—and why ( The New York Times Book Review). How fast can a batted ball go? What effect do stitch patterns have on wind resistance? How far does a curveball break? Who reaches first base faster after a bunt, a right- or left-handed batter? The answers are o...

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  • MIGRATORY ANIMALS
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    MIGRATORY ANIMALS
    MARY HELEN SPECHT
    Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Award and the Writer's League of Texas Fiction Award • An Indie Next Selection • An Austin American-Statesman Selects Book A powerful debut novel about a group of 30-somethings struggling for connection and belonging, Migratory Animals centers on a protagonist who finds herself torn between love and duty. When Flannery, a young scientist...

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  • THE UNITED STATES OF PARANOIA
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    THE UNITED STATES OF PARANOIA
    JESSE WALKER
    "A superb analysis of American paranoia . . . a terrific, measured, objective study of one of American culture's most loaded topics." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Conspiracies have been woven through America's social tapestry since the beginning of its history. The United States of Paranoia is a unique and fascinating look at how these commonly held beliefs—true or not—...

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  • MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH EXTREMIST
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    MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH EXTREMIST
    YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI
    An ex-radical traces his life in right-wing Jewish politics, his traumatic family history, and his spiritual transformation in this insightful memoir. "Engrossing. . . . A profound look at the child of a Holocaust survivor burdened with the knowledge that his very existence is a miracle and the need to prove that the miracle wasn't squandered on him." — Kirkus Reviews The child...

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  • THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS
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    THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS
    ANNE DE COURCY
    Based on unpublished letters and diaries, The Viceroy's Daughters is a riveting portrait of three spirited and wilful women who were born at the height of British upper-class wealth and privilege. The oldest, Irene, never married but pursued her passion for foxes, alcohol, and married men. The middle, Cimmie, was a Labour Party activist turned Fascist. And Baba, the youngest an...

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  • INSURRECTIONS OF THE MIND
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    INSURRECTIONS OF THE MIND
    FRANKLIN FOER
    To commemorate the 100th anniversary of The New Republic, an extraordinary anthology of essays culled from the archives of the acclaimed and influential magazine Founded by Herbert Croly and Walter Lippmann in 1914 to give voice to the growing progressive movement, The New Republic has charted and shaped the state of American liberalism, publishing many of the twentieth century...

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  • DIANA MOSLEY
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    DIANA MOSLEY
    ANNE DE COURCY
    Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified her family and scandalized society. In 1933, Diana met the new German leader, Adolf Hitler. They became close friends and he attended her wedding as the guest of honor. During the w...

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  • THE PIOUS ONES
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    THE PIOUS ONES
    JOSEPH BERGER
    "A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the world of Hasidim. . . . based on extensive interviews [and] solid research." — Kirkus Reviews In this "absorbing read" ( Booklist), veteran  New York Times journalist Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the ultra-Orthodox Jews known as Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles—and the social ...

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  • SLOW GETTING UP
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    SLOW GETTING UP
    NATE JACKSON
    One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the National Football League As an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup of the Denver Broncos, Nate Jackson took the path of thousands of unknowns before him to carve out a professional football career twice as long as the average player. Through his story recounted here—from scouting combines t...

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  • THE UNSPEAKABLE
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    THE UNSPEAKABLE
    CHARLES L. CALIA
    A priest must investigate a fellow man of the cloth—and claims of miraculous healing among his congregation—in this novel of faith and friendship. As an administrator for the Diocese of St. Paul, Peter Whitmore is asked to investigate a priest who is rumored to perform miracles. But the priest in question, Jim Marbury, is no stranger to Whitmore. He is an old friend from semina...

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  • NINE AND A HALF WEEKS
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    NINE AND A HALF WEEKS
    ELIZABETH MCNEILL
    The classic erotic memoir of an intense and haunting relationship that spawned the film. This is a love story so unusual, so passionate, and so extreme in its psychology and sexuality that it takes the reader's breath away. Unlike The Story of O, Nine and a Half Weeks is not a novel or fantasy; it is a true account of an episode in the life of a real woman. Elizabeth McNeill wa...

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  • GHOST WALTZ
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    GHOST WALTZ
    INGEBORG DAY
    A woman comes to terms with her family's dark Nazi past in this memoir from the author of Nine and a Half Weeks—A moving and profound exploration of the legacy of war and hate on an individual life. Born in Austria at the height of Word War II, Ingeborg Day grew up knowing little about the early years of her life. When she came to America in 1957 as an exchange student, she hea...

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  • THE ORPHANS OF RACE POINT
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    THE ORPHANS OF RACE POINT
    PATRY FRANCIS
    A suspenseful page-turning saga of love, the shadow of murder, and the true meaning of faith, by the author of the acclaimed The Liar's Diary . "Set against the coast of Provincetown, Patry Francis's fierce, ravishing epic cuts deep to the bone about how love binds us together and breaks us apart, and how the past's thumbprint rests on the present. Tender, violent, and alive, i...

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  • CITY POET
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    CITY POET
    BRAD GOOCH
    The definitive biography of Frank O'Hara, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, the magnetic literary figure at the center of New York's cultural life during the 1950s and 1960s. City Poet captures the excitement and promise of mid-twentieth-century New York in the years when it became the epicenter of the art world, and illuminates the poet and artist at...

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  • DOES JESUS REALLY LOVE ME?
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    DOES JESUS REALLY LOVE ME?
    JEFF CHU
    "Fascinating, thoughtful, and important. [Jeff Chu] captures the fractures and conflict at a moment when the issue of what to do with L.G.B.T. people is tearing Christian denominations apart. Does Jesus Really Love Me? deserves to be widely read."  —Dan Savage, New York Times Book Review In this timely work—part memoir, part investigative analysis—a prize-winning writer explore...

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  • CITY OF NETS
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    CITY OF NETS
    OTTO FRIEDRICH
    "With its tough humor, profound cynicism, and unerring nose for corruption and hypocrisy,  City of Nets offers a distinctly Brechtian vision of Hollywood." — The Village Voice In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies...

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  • WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS FEELING
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    WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS FEELING
    ADAM WILSON
    Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house. And in the title story, selected for The Best American Short Stories, two film school buddies...

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  • RED SKY AT MORNING
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    RED SKY AT MORNING
    RICHARD BRADFORD
    Hailed as "a sort of Catcher in the Rye out West," this classic coming-of-age story set during World War II is "a true delight" ( Washington Post Book World). In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission in the U.S. Navy and moves his wife, Ann, and seventeen-year-old son, Josh, to the family's summer home in t...

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  • THE WISDOM OF THE MYTHS
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    THE WISDOM OF THE MYTHS
    LUC FERRY
    "Marvelously wise and expansive. . . . one could call [Ferry's] prose conversational, but it's rare to have a conversation quite this wonderful." — Boston Globe A fascinating journey through Greek mythology that explains the myths' timeless lessons and meaning Heroes, gods, and mortals. The Greek myths are the founding narratives of Western civilization: to understand them is t...

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  • WALT WHITMAN
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    WALT WHITMAN
    JUSTIN KAPLAN
    The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author "gives us flesh and blood Whitman in this fine and sensitive biography" ( The Boston Globe). A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America's greatest poet—his genius, his passions, his androgynous sensibility—an exuberant life entwined with the turbulent history of mid-nineteenth century America. In vivid de...

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  • KNOWING MANDELA
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    KNOWING MANDELA
    JOHN CARLIN
    The acclaimed journalist shares a "thoughtful blend of biography and personal encounters" with the South African president and anti-apartheid activist ( Publishers Weekly). Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela built a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders. In Knowing Mandela, journalist John Carlin offers an intimate por...

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  • SCOTT FITZGERALD
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    SCOTT FITZGERALD
    JEFFREY MEYERS
    Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. Despite his early success with The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald battled against failure and disappointment. This book, by the acclaimed biographer of Hemingway, is the first to analyze frankly the meaning as well as th...

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  • DEADLY DEPARTURE
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    DEADLY DEPARTURE
    CHRISTINE NEGRONI
    The in-flight explosion of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996, was one of the deadliest disasters in American history, spurring the most expensive airline investigation ever undertaken by the U.S. government. To this day the crash remains clouded in doubt and shadowed by suspicion of a government conspiracy. If there was any conspiracy to hide the truth about what really happened ...

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  • GOLDENGROVE
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    GOLDENGROVE
    FRANCINE PROSE
    "With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor, Prose captures the centrifugal and isolating force of grief. . . . "[ Goldengrove is] a moving meditation on how, out of the painful passing of innocence and youth, sexuality and identity can miraculously emerge."  —  Los Angeles Times An emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, the New York ...

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  • CRAZY HEART
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    CRAZY HEART
    THOMAS COBB
    "A masterpiece. . . . An unforgettable character . . . who proceeds to take you on a roller-coaster ride through his tawdrily tumultuous life." — Chicago Tribune At the age of fifty-seven—living a life riddled with ex-wives, one night stands, and daily diet of Jack Daniels—Bad Blake is on his last legs. His ticker, his liver, even his pick-up truck are all giving him trouble. A...

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  • THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT
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    THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT
    JIM BISHOP
    "This classic of popular history vividly dramatizes a pivotal moment in the life of our country . . . a happy blend of good scholarship and good storytelling." — AudioFile The Day Lincoln Was Shot is a gripping, hour-by-hour account of April fourteen, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated. It chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassin Joh...

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