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Kati Marton - Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America

Relates the author's eyewitness account of her parents' arrests in Cold War Budapest, Hungary, and the terrible separation that followed, including ...

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Stephen Jay Gould - Mismeasure of Man

Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits ...

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Debra Gwartney - Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love

Debra Gwartney shares the heartbreaking true story of her search for her runaway teenage daughters. After her divorce, Gwartney, a contributor to ...

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Jacques Barzun - From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

Barzun unpacks a lifetime of learning in this comprehensive overview of history and culture. The distinguished historian reexamines major themes in ...

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Mark Zwonitzer and Charles Hirshberg - Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music

Traces the bluegrass country music achievements of the Carter family, from their early playing for self-entertainment and discovery by a New York ...

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Patrick French - The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul

A study of Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul examines his difficult early life as a child of Indian parents in colonial Trinidad, and his Oxford ...

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Mark Doty - My Alexandria: Poems

Winner of the third annual T. S. Eliot Prize.

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Amy Bloom - A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories

A new collection of stories by the celebrated author of Love Invents Us introduces a new cast of characters who search for love and satisfaction in a ...

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August Kleinzahler - Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

San Francisco poet August Kleinzahler writes with a deliberately un-gussied-up and nearly hardboiled verse style about fringe existence in America. ...

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Charles Rosen - Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist

Written by a renowned concert pianist and National Book Award-winning author of The Classical Style, a probing, uniquely written exploration of the ...

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W. D. Snodgrass - De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong

Snodgrass guides students through favorite poems by comparing the original masterpieces with humdrum imitations to illustrate the inspired choices ...

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Diana Athill - Somewhere Towards the End

A latest memoir by the British publishing maven and author of <IT>Instead of a Letter <RO>shares candid observations about the experience of ...

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Blake Bailey - Cheever: A Life

The first full and unforgettable portrait of the life of John Cheever shows us a soul in conflict: high-school dropout, dire alcoholic, secret ...

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Sylvia Nasar - A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994

This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical ...

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C.K. Williams - Flesh and Blood

Brief, intense poems deal with nature, change, violence, longing, indolence, love, aging, death, city life, parenthood, work, greed, and war.

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