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Mordecai: An Early American Family
Author: Emily Bingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 346 An Intimate Portrait of a Jewish American Family in America's First Century Mordecai is a brilliant multigenerational history at the forefront...
Selected Poems 1968-2014
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Author: Paul Muldoon (Princeton University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "The most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war." --The Times Literary Supplement Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers...
First Generations: Women in Colonial America
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Author: C Berkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native...
A Short History of the Shadow: Poems
Author: Charles Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Luminous new poems from one who has long been a poet of gorgeous description --William Logan, The New Criterion Landscape, as...
Elmer Rice: Three Plays: The Adding Machine, Street Scene and Dream Girl
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Author: Elmer Rice Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 239 Elmer Rice belongs high on the roster of influential play-wrights. He has brought vitality and world attention to the American theatre....
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
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Author: Henry Hitchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first...
Three Plays: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad/Indians/Wings
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Author: Arthur Kopit Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Arthur Kopit has been one of our most imaginative, acclaimed, and produced playwrights. Now his three classics plays are available in...
Johnny Mad Dog
Author: Emmanuel Dongala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Set amid the chaos of West Africa's civil wars, Emmanuel Dongala's striking new novel tells the story of two teenagers growing...
The Last Laugh
Author: Lynn Freed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset...
A Feather on the Breath of God
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Author: Sigrid Nunez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing...
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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Author: Sonia Shah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 309 [A] tour-de-force. --The New York Times "The Fever is a vivid and compelling history with a message that's entirely relevant today."...
My Son's Story (Us)
Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 When Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary...
Paper Lantern: Love Stories
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Author: Stuart Dybek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic...
Theory of Shadows
Author: Paolo Maurensig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 On the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine was found dead in his hotel room in...
Cost
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Author: Roxana Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Julia Lambert, an artist, is spending the summer in her old Maine farmhouse. During a visit from her elderly parents, she...
The Secret of Parenting: How to Be in Charge of Today's Kids--From Toddlers to Preteens--Without Threats or Punishment
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Author: Anthony E Wolf, Ph.D. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Essential advice from the author of the bestselling Get Out Of My Life Today's children--from toddlers to preteens--challenge their...
All the Living
Author: C E Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of the National Book Foundation's 5 Best Writers Under 35 Finalist...
Acceptance
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Author: Susan Coll Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Acceptance is a satire of America's overachievers, a novel set over one year in the college application process, when students and...
The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried / Alice, Let's Eat / Third Helpings
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Author: Calvin Trillin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants...
Let's No One Get Hurt
Author: Jon Pineda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Fifteen-year-old Pearl is squatting in an abandoned boathouse with her father, a disgraced college professor, and two other grown men, deep...
Caribou
Author: Charles Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Charles Wright's truth - the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging - is at the heart...
The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
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Author: Lawrence Osborne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What is taste? Is it individual or imposed on us from the outside? Why are so many of us so intimidated...
The House of Hidden Mothers
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Author: Meera Syal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Life hasn't always been easy for Shyama, a woman in her mid-forties whose husband abandoned her when their daughter was still...
Love for Sale: Pop Music in America
Author: David Hajdu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 David Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of pop music, in an unexpected place - not with nostalgic reminiscences...
All Decent Animals
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Author: Oonya Kempadoo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 Oonya Kempadoo's moving third novel, All Decent Animals, looks at the personal and aesthetic choices of a multifaceted cast of characters...
World in the Evening
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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and sexuality Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in...
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America
Author: John F Kasson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the...
1831: Year of Eclipse
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Author: University Louis P Masur (City College of the City University of NY) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years...
Station Zed: Poems
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Author: Tom Sleigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 118 Station Zed is the terminal outpost beyond which is the unknown. It is also poet Tom Sleigh's finest work. In this...
The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges
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Author: Aatish Taseer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where...
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
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Author: Hector Tobar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio...
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
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Author: Mona Eltahawy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The journalist Mona Eltahawy is no stranger to controversy. Through her articles and actions she has fought for the autonomy, security,...
The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington
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Author: Martha Saxton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of...
Down There on a Visit
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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher...
No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
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Author: Linda K Kerber (University of Iowa) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than...
In the Long Run: A Father, a Son, and Unintentional Lessons in Happiness
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Author: Jim Axelrod Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Got an urgent 'you've got to read this book' note from buddy Armen Keteyian, and I'm glad he was insistent ....
Clybourne Park
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Author: Bruce Norris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain...
Isadora
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Author: Amelia Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Using the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan's life and the stuff of her spirit, Amelia Gray's breakout novel delivers an incredibly imaginative...
Girlchild
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Author: Tupelo Hassman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 275 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Rory Hendrix, the least likely of Girl Scouts, hasn't got a troop or...
Rising from the Plains
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Author: John McPhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain,...
Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Author: Richard Panek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds,...
Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945
Author: Ronald C. Rosbottom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest...
The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
Author: Kurt Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Award-winning psychologists Daniel Wegner and Kurt M. Gray invite you to consider how you determine whom and what has a mind...
All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions...
The Shadow of the Soul: The Dog-Faced Gods Book Two
Author: Sarah Pinborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 DI Cass Jones is still dealing with the fallout of uncovering a major conspiracy within his own police station when a...
Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World
Author: Homa Sabet Tavangar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In today's increasingly interconnected world, how do we prepare our children to succeed and to become happy, informed global citizens?...
Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Until then, investigation of the universe had depended on electromagnetic radiation: visible light, radio, X-rays and the rest. But gravitational waves...
The Beautiful and Damned
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A captivating and glamorous tale of squandered talent that defined 'The Lost Generation' of 1920s New York Anthony Patch and...