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  • STUBBORN ARCHIVIST
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    STUBBORN ARCHIVIST
    YARA RODRIGUES FOWLER
    Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award * Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize * Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize  “I read Stubborn Archivist in a ravenous gulp. It’s stunning: so articulate about what it means to live between two languages and countries, tenderly unraveling the knots of unbelonging.” —Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City and...

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  • THEIR FINEST
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    THEIR FINEST
    LISSA EVANS
    From the author of the acclaimed Crooked Heart comes another “smart, funny, ingenious, revealing tale of London life during the Second World War” (The Independent)—longlisted for the Orange Prize upon its original publication in England. It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way and everyon...

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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 airi...

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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 sto...

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  • I AM NOT A SLUT
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    I AM NOT A SLUT
    LEORA TANENBAUM
    The author of the groundbreaking work Slut! explores the phenomenon of slut-shaming in the age of sexting, tweeting, and “liking.” She shows that the sexual double standard is more dangerous than ever before and offers wisdom and strategies for alleviating its destructive effects on young women’s lives. Young women are encouraged to express themselves sexually. Yet when they do...

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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 of...

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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—h...

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  • 300,000,000
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    300,000,000
    BLAKE BUTLER
    An unforgettable novel of an American suburb devastated by a fiendish madman—the most ambitious and important work yet by “the 21st century answer to William Burroughs” (Publishers Weekly). Blake Butler’s fiction has dazzled readers with its dystopian dreamscapes and swaggering command of language. Now, in his most topical and visceral novel yet, he ushers us into the conscious...

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  • MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH EXTREMIST
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    MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH EXTREMIST
    YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI
    The poignant and insightful memoir from Yossi Klein Halevi, the award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed Like Dreamers—a coming-of-age story about a traumatic family history, radical politics, and spiritual transformation that speaks to a new generation struggling to understand what it means to be Jewish in America. The child of a Holocaust survivor, Yossi Klein Hal...

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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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  • 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
    As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to astonishing proportions, veteran New York Times journalist Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles—and the social and political implications of their expanding presence in America. Though the Hasidic way of life was nearl...

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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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  • AMERICAN WOMAN
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    AMERICAN WOMAN
    SUSAN CHOI
    “Susan Choi…proves herself a natural—a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability. I couldn’t put American Woman down, and wanted when I finished it to do nothing but read it again.”   —Joan Didion A novel of impressive scope and complexity, “American Woman is a thoughtful, meditative interrogation of…history and polit...

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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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  • GREEN GIRL
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    GREEN GIRL
    KATE ZAMBRENO
    With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative, sharply etched portrait of a young woman navigating the spectrum between anomie and epiphany. First published in 2011 in a small press edition, Green...

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  • ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR
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    ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR
    DARRAGH MCKEON
    “Brilliantly imagined in its harrowing account of the Chernobyl disaster and exhilarating in its sweep, All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a debut to rattle all the windows and open up the ventricles of the heart. . . . The book is daring, exhilarating, generous and beautifully written.” — Colum McCann A brilliant and gripping novel set against the tragedy of Chernobyl and the...

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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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  • CITY OF NETS
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    CITY OF NETS
    OTTO FRIEDRICH
    A dazzling social and cultural history of Hollywood’s golden age  in the decade from World War II to the Korean War 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 later, the studios were faltering. The 1940s became the dec...

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  • RED SKY AT MORNING
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    RED SKY AT MORNING
    RICHARD BRADFORD
    “Red Sky at Morning is a minor marvel: it is a novel of paradox, of identity, of an overwhelming YES to life that embraces with wonder what we are pleased to call the human condition. In short, a work of art.”  — Harper Lee Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as “a sort of Catcher in the Rye out West,” Richard Bradford’s Red Sky at Morning is the classic coming-of-age stor...

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  • JUNGLELAND
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    JUNGLELAND
    CHRISTOPHER S. STEWART
    “A bold attempt to solve the mystery of the White City of Honduras. . . . Readers who loved The Lost City of Z have found their next great true adventure.” —Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times–bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde—who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler—was anxious about the per...

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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 to...

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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 det...

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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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  • FOSSE
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    FOSSE
    SAM WASSON
    Now the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing. “Wasson is a smart and savvy reporter, and his book abounds with colorful firsthand tales.” — Janet Maslin, New York Times “Fascinating . . . Wasson has taken complete control of his subject.” — Wall Street Journal The only person ever to win Oscar, Em...

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  • TIME WARPED
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    TIME WARPED
    CLAUDIA HAMMOND
    An award–winning BBC podcast host “has a steady touch . . . adding user-friendly charm” to “intriguing” research on the psychology of time perception (New York Times). Why does life seem to speed up as we get older? Why does the clock in your head move at a different speed from the one on the wall? Why is it almost impossible to go a whole day without checking your watch? Is it...

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  • A FAR PIECE TO CANAAN
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    A FAR PIECE TO CANAAN
    SAM HALPERN
    A Far Piece to Canaan is a warm and nostalgic novel from an unexpected source: Sam Halpern, whose salty paternal wisdom made Justin Halpern’s Sh*t My Dad Says a phenomenal bestseller.   Inspired by Sam Halpern’s childhood in rural Kentucky, A Far Piece to Canaan tells the story of Samuel Zelinsky, a celebrated but troubled former professor who reluctantly returns after his wife...

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  • ZELDA
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    ZELDA
    NANCY MILFORD
    This New York Times–bestselling biography details the tortured, enigmatic life of the novelist, artist, socialite, and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda Sayre started out as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the ...

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  • THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!
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    THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!
    DEBORAH TANNEN
    The bestselling linguistics professor examines how we communicate with each other and how you can maintain an effective conversation. At home, on the job, in a personal relationship, it’s often not what you say but how you say it that counts. Deborah Tannen revolutionized our thinking about relationships between women and men in her #1 bestseller You Just Don’t Understand. In T...

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  • MARGARET THATCHER
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    MARGARET THATCHER
    MARGARET THATCHER
    Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is the story of her remarkable life told in her own words--the definitive account of an extraordinary woman and consummate politician, bringing together her bestselling memoirs The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power.  Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great Brit...

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