Random House, 2018. Hardcover.
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Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis JohnsonNATIONAL BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. Hardcover.
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Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game.
Roland Nair calls himself.....
Penguin Press, 2015. Hardcover.
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Maira Kalman, with wit and great sensitivity, reveals why dogs bring out the best in us
Maira Kalman + Dogs = Bliss
Dogs have lessons for us all. In Beloved Dog, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman illuminates.....
London: Oneworld, 2015. Hardcover.
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Daniel Klein's fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his popular books Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . and.....
Penguin Press, 2017. Hardcover.
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The New York Times bestseller."This book is full of wonders...Loose teeth, chewing gum, it all becomes noble, almost holy, under Knausgaard's patient, admiring gaze. The world feels repainted." --The New York TimesFrom the author of the monumental My Struggle.....
Penguin Press, 2018. Hardcover.
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"Spring features Knausgaard unbound, writing for the first time without a gimmick or the crutch of extravagant experimentation...Fall in love with the world, he enjoins, stay sensitive to it, stay in it." -The New York Times"Poignant and beautiful...Even if.....
Penguin Press, 2018. Hardcover.
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The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer2 June--It is completely dark out now. It is twenty-three minutes to midnight and you.....
Penguin Press, 2018. Hardcover.
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The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you.....
Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2018. Hardcover.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A brilliant book, wise and nuanced."--Nicholas Kristof, New York Times"Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely." --New York Times Book Review"Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment."--The Washington PostDonald Trump's presidency.....
Yale University Press, 2018. Hardcover.
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BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries.In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in.....
Henry Holt & Company, 2014. Hardcover.
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The New York Times bestselling memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker
People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the.....
Knopf Publishing Group, 2018. Hardcover.
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From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people.....
Grove Press, 2001. Paperback.
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The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris.....
Yale University Press, 2015. Hardcover.
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Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano has said that his many fictions are all variations of the same story. Pedigree, his memoir, is the theme.In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up.....
University of Washington Press, 2009. Hardcover.
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David Thompson's Travels is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western North America. The tale spans the years 1784 to.....
Yale University Press, 2018. Hardcover.
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The first-ever English translation of a seventeenth-century ornithology text, complete with historic watercolor illustrationsThis beautifully illustrated book brings together the newly commissioned, first-ever English translation of one of the earliest studies in ornithology with the original watercolors, now.....
Mariner Books, 2015. Paperback.
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A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century"One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War."--The New YorkerIn 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish.....
Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Hardcover.
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The grand master of cooking has a new apprentice in the kitchen: his granddaughter.Jacques Pépin is one of the nation's most famous cooking teachers, renowned for his knife skills. Ever since she was very young, his granddaughter.....
Simon & Schuster, 2019. Paperback.
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In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, "our greatest living chronicler of the natural world" (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology affect our understanding.....
Algonquin Books, 2014. Hardcover.
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"A remarkable book. Reading about the birds of Pandemonium will make you laugh and cry; it will make you see more clearly the need to take care of our planet; and it will confirm that one person with a......
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. Hardcover.
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Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion, heat, noise--and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball.....
Viking, 2018. Hardcover.
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"A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."-NatureA timely, thrilling account of a man who, as an explorer, dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon--and, as an American.....
Yale University Press, 2018. Hardcover.
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The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh centuryThe magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest.....
Yale University Press, 2017. Hardcover.
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A captivating tour of the bookshelves of ten leading artists, exploring the intricate connections between reading, artistic practice, and identity Taking its inspiration from Walter Benjamin's seminal 1931 essay, the Unpacking My Library series charts a spirited exploration.....
Dutton Books, 2018. Hardcover.
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The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands more--to the American plate.In the nineteenth century, American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment. But.....
