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The Other Paris

by Luc Sante

Published: 2015-10-27

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemianParis, the City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outca...

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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

by Asne Seierstad

Published: 2015-04-21

Hardcover: 544 pages

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One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back togetherOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's offic...

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Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone

by Scott Shane

Published: 2015-09-15

Hardcover: 416 pages

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    Objective Troy tells the gripping and unsettling story of Anwar al-Awlaki, the once-celebrated American imam who called for moderation after 9/11, a man who ultimately directed his outsized talents to the mass murder of his fellow citizens. It follows Barack Obama’s campaign agains...

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The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game

by Mary Pilon

Published: 2015-02-17

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins...

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Modernity Britain: 1957-1962

by David Kynaston

Published: 2014-12-02

Hardcover: 880 pages

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The late 1950s and early 1960s was a period in its own right-neither the stultifying early to midfifties nor the liberating mid- to late-sixties-and an action-packed, dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain started to take shape. These were the "never had it so good" years,...

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Loitering: New and Collected Essays

by Charles D'Ambrosio

Published: 2014-11-11

Paperback: 368 pages

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New York TimesNotable Book Winner of the Washington State Book Prize D'Ambrosio is already considered one of America's premier short story writers, but Loitering cements his place as one of our great living essayists. Charles D’Ambrosio’s essay collection Orphans spawned something of a...

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Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi

by Hayden Herrera

Published: 2015-04-21

Hardcover: 592 pages

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Throughout the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure in modern art. From interlocking wooden sculptures to massive steel monuments to the elegant Akari lamps, Noguchi became a master of what he called the "sculpturing of space." But his constant struggle-as both an artist and...

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Letters to Véra

by Vladimir Nabokov

Published: 2015-11-03

Hardcover: 864 pages

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The letters of the great writer to his wife—gathered here for the first time—chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work.No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov...

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Katrina: After the Flood

by Gary Rivlin

Published: 2015-08-11

Hardcover: 480 pages

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One of New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year, 2015 One of NPR’s Best Books of 2015Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana—on August 29, 2005—journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm’s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans’s efforts to...

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Jonas Salk: A Life

by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

Published: 2015-05-19

Hardcover: 559 pages

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When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon-a knight in a white coat. In the wake...