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The Fortnight in SeptemberThis charming, timeless classic about a family of five setting out on their annual seaside vacation is "the most uplifting, life-affirming novel I can think of...the beautiful dignity to be found in everyday living has rarely been captured more delicately" (Kazuo Ishiguro). Meet the...
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Killers of the Flower Moon (Movie Tie-In Edition): The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE - A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z "A shocking whodunit...What more...
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Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American FrontierOne of NPR's "Books We Love"New York Times Book Review's "The Best True Crime of 2022" "Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last."--Wall Street Journal A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier--shedding...
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion ServiceThe powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of its members. A compelling testament to a woman's most essential freedom--control over her own body--and to the...
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Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes: Nine Indian Writers on the Legacy of the ExpeditionAt the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark's journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed? The nine writers in this volume each provide their own...
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In Defense of Partisanship"Contravening conventional wisdom, Zelizer offers a spirited defense of parties and partisanship." --Frances Lee, Princeton University Partisanship is a dirty word in American politics. If there is one issue on which almost everyone in our divided country seems to agree, it's the belief that...
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Where I Was from: A MemoirFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Notes to John: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline" (The Baltimore Sun), Didion--a native Californian--reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Didion applies her scalpel-like...
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The Defining Moment: Fdr's Hundred Days and the Triumph of HopeThis is the story of a political miracle--the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown....
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Omensetter's Luck"The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation." -The New Republic Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetter's Luck is the masterful first novel by the author of The Tunnel, Middle C, On Being Blue, and Eyes:...
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Cold VictoryAN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF THE MONTHFrom New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate testHelsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone...
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The Sun Also Rises: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Hemingway's classic novel of post-war disillusionment--the emblematic novel of the Lost Generation--now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, in a beautiful Graphic Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckled edges, and specially commissioned cover art by R. Kikuo Johnson and a new introduction by...
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Our EveningsFrom the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, "an engrossing tale of one man's personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) "The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of...
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Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White SupremacyWINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTIONFrom Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans.By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina's largest city and a shining example...
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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress PrisonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "entertaining [and] often-moving account" (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodied the spirit of resistance against fascism, from the author of The Spy and the Traitor"Macintyre...
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The Nineties: A BookAn instant New York Times bestseller! "Informative, endlessly entertaining."--BuzzFeed "Generation X's definitive chronicler of culture."--GQ From the author of But What If We're Wrong comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade It was long ago, but not as long as it seems:...
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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human BeingFrench philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment A Penguin Classic One of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone...
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The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna PickNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK - A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II--a story of love, family, bravery, lost...
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The Underground LibraryWhen the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community's beloved library in this novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. When the new deputy librarian,...
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The Sun Also RisesThe only authorized edition of Ernest Hemingway's first novel. "The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost." --The Wall Street Journal The Sun Also Rises is a...
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The OppermannsWritten in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend. In the foment of...
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