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A Responsible Statecraft best foreign policy book of 2023 A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-...

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A "visionary"* approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-one state for two peoples-that is more urgent than ever It is by now a commonplace that the only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian violence is to divide the territory in two. A...

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Warhorse, gadfly, storyteller, naturalist--there is no simple category to contain the vibrant prose voice of Edward Abbey. And this snappy collection of es says displays the author of Desert Solitaire and The Monkey-Wrench Gang at the height of hi...

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A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Back shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming a writer. She learns early on the roles women and men play in society, as well as the impotence of childr...

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Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior's Honor is a report and a reflection on what he has seen in the places where ethnic war has ...

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The classic guide to making documentaries, now revised and expanded for today's filmmaker The second edition of Making Documentary Films and Videos fully updates the popular guidebook that has given readers around the world the knowledge and confi...

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A practical, laugh-out-loud guide to adopting your mans family, this hilarious, savvy book will help women survive their first meeting with the in-laws, from the holidays, weddings, new babies, and retirement.

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"In smooth, economical prose, [Mosier] incorporates a number of thought-provoking insights and hypotheses . . . This is a stimulating overview of a war machine." --"Publishers Weekly" World War I has inspired a vast mythology o...

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"[A] tightly crafted, very readable book . . . the best in-depth contemporary analysis we are going to get." -Stephen Flynn, The Washington Post When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore on August 29, 2005, federal and state officials were no...

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"A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons." --"Cleveland Plain Dealer""" In "Bottom of the Ninth," Michael Shapiro brings to life a watershed momen...

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Emma is a rising star at the marketing firm she works at as a "creative," but would have trouble describing what exactly it is she does all day. She pours most of her actual creative energy into a popular blog that all of her friends agr...

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"I had a real romance with this book." -Miranda July A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, "bracingly good...refreshing and welcome," that explores the myriad ways in which desire and commod...

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A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect - a female detective within the LAPD's own ranks On February 24, 1986, twenty-nine-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmuss...

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Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi , but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . . Manchuria, 1908. Meanwhile, a family who own...

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Belletrist Book Club Pick An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites--and the truth about having it all Outside of a childhood nickname she can't shake, Piglet's rather please...

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"Enthralling and sharp-witted...Highly recommended." --Karin Slaughter, New York Times and #1 international bestselling author "Bold, fearless... Prima Facie is a deeply rewarding, absolute must read." --Chris Whitaker, New Yor...

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New York Times Editors' Choice Named a best book of the year by Amazon "A rollicking, unexpectedly affecting story. . . It's going to be one of the big, buzzy Beltway books of the year." - Politico A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a t...

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Before love at first sight, there were things no one saw. Annie never much believed in love. That is, until meeting Mark. After crossing paths on morning commutes, they connect at a group counseling session for trauma survivors. Each recognizes so...

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Nothing puts love and friendship to the test quite like a baby... When Jill becomes both pregnant and single at the end of one spring semester, she and her two closest friends plunge into an experiment in tri-parenting, tri-schooling, and tri-habi...

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An airline captain crafts a riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the remarkable true life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found freedom in the air A few years after the Wright bro...

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From the author of the critically acclaimed Laura & Emma comes a The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. for our times: Kate Greathead's "mesmerizing" (Maria Semple) excavation of millennial masculinity, The Book of George . If you haven't had ...

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A dark, intense, and compelling story of what happens when a young woman falls in love with the wrong kind of man. Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot . The boxes aren't ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she woul...

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Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chillingly beautiful mystery, only the obsessive spirit of youth can save a desperate town from the savagery within. Ava Bonney is a compassionate and studious fourteen-y...

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For fans of "The Lottery" and The Hunger Games , this novel set in a small town with a sinister tradition is chilling in the best possible way. " Curdle Creek is a thoughtful, sinister tour-de-force." -Tananarive Due, L.A. Time...

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A darkly comic memoir about being a working creative person in a world that is growing ever more dysfunctional, by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and television writer Bruce Eric Kaplan. In January 2022, Bruce Eric Kaplan found himself confused a...

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From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motley group of Allied men and women who worked to manage Stalin's mercurial, explosive approach to diplomacy during four turbulent years of World War I...

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Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice--and what it takes to find shelter. Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the perspective of a moth...

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Both a razor-sharp thriller and a poignant love story, this twisting tale of psychological suspense is Patterson's most compelling novel in years Mark Darrow grew up in a small Ohio town with no real advantages beyond his intelligence and athletic...

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Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In this searing and intimate examination of the ideals and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler tells t...

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Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia delivers an intimate, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thriller Ingrassia lost his mother, two sisters, brother, an...

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