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  • Left Bank

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    An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.

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    • Author: Poirier, Agn?s
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: September 17 2019
    • ISBN10: 1250231469
    • Language: English
  • Barefoot Lawyer

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    ” Chen’s] story is a reminder that the desire for basic human rights . . . arises from the deep well of the human spirit.”–The New York Times Book Review

    It was like a scene out of a thriller: One ni

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    • Author: Guangcheng, Chen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: March 01 2016
    • ISBN10: 1250081599
    • Language: English
  • I Left It on the Mountain

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    On his fifty-third birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. For years he had interviewed the bright lights–… [more below]

    • Author: Sessums, Kevin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 09 2016
    • ISBN10: 1250078180
    • Language: English
  • Trip to Echo Spring

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    A New York Times Notable Book of 2014
    A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014

    Olivia Laing’s widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of the greatest works of America

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    • Author: Laing, Olivia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: October 28 2014
    • ISBN10: 1250063736
    • Language: English
  • Rise to Greatness

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    Author of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
    New York Times Bestseller

    As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death’s door. The government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke,

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    • Author: Von Drehle, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: September 24 2013
    • ISBN10: 1250037808
    • Language: English
  • Diaghilev’s Empire

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    A Best Book of the Year at The New Yorker and The Telegraph

    “Amusing and assertive . . . [Christiansen’s] delight is infectious.” –Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review

    Rupert Christiansen

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    • Author: Christiansen, Rupert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: December 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1250872537
    • Language: English
  • The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery

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    A fascinating look at history’s losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again

    History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argue

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    • Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 403
    • Publish Date: April 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 0312423195
    • Language: English
  • Mississippi Sissy

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    Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the

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    • Author: Sessums, Kevin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: March 04 2008
    • ISBN10: 0312341024
    • Language: English
  • Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy

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    A haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of

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    • Author: Ball, Edward
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: August 03 2021
    • ISBN10: 1250798612
    • Language: English
  • City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai

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    Now one of Kirkus Reviews‘ Best Books of the Year

    From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking–winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold D

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    • Author: French, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 02 2019
    • ISBN10: 1250170591
    • Language: English
  • Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

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    “[Schulte’s] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America’s leisure time, and how do we get it back?”–Lev Grossman, Time


    When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two,

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    • Author: Schulte, Brigid
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: March 03 2015
    • ISBN10: 1250062381
    • Language: English
  • The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

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    One smart book…delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name.–Newsweek

    Bodily waste is common to all and as natural as breathing. We prefer not to talk a

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    • Author: George, Rose
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 09 2014
    • ISBN10: 1250058309
    • Language: English
  • We Killed

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    New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
    A Very Oral History
    With a New Introduction by the Author

    We Killed shines in its details and its anecdotes….Well crafted and entertaining.–The Boston Glob

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    • Author: Kohen, Yael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 01 2013
    • ISBN10: 1250037786
    • Language: English
  • Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche

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    A New York Times Notable Book for 2011

    We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers

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    • Author: Miller, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: January 03 2012
    • ISBN10: 125000232X
    • Language: English
  • Realigners

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    A VITAL NEW VOICE: Shenk is a leading new voice of the millennial left, and a rising historian who’s something of a prodigy. His ambitious dissertation Inventing the American Economy will be published

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    • Author: Shenk, Timothy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1250872936
    • Language: English
  • Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop

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    The profoundly moving family history of one of America’s greatest newspapermen.

    As his father lies dying, Joseph Lelyveld finds himself in the basement of the Cleveland synagogue where Arthur Lelyveld

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    • Author: Lelyveld, Joseph
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: March 21 2006
    • ISBN10: 0312425104
    • Language: English
  • Wait for Me!

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    The autobiography of one of Britain’s most beloved figures, last of the Mitford sisters, renowned writer and social figure.

    Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously wi

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    • Author: Mitford, Deborah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: September 13 2011
    • ISBN10: 0312610645
    • Language: English
  • The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier

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    Biographer and historian Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the “Glass Wall” between Europe and Asia in this riveting historical account.

    Few countries have suffered more

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    • Author: Egremont, Max
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1250863163
    • Language: English
  • Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

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    The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.

    Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and

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    • Author: Graeber, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 10 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250321875
    • Language: English
  • The Return

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    “Dark, intimate and sneakily touching . . . There is gold to be found in [The Return].” –Michael Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review

    Composed of thirteen indelible stories, Roberto Bola?o’s The

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    • Author: Bola?o, Roberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250898188
    • Language: English
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