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Half the Kingdom: A Novel

by Lore Segal

Published: 2013-10-01

Hardcover: 176 pages

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"No one writes like Segal — her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel." —Margot Livesey "I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness an...

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A Guide to Being Born: Stories

by Ramona Ausubel

Published: 2013-05-02

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell—an enthralling new collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition. Major new literary talent Ramona Ausubel combines the otherworldly wisdom of her much-loved debut novel, No One Is Here Except A...

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Duplex: A Novel

by Kathryn Davis

Published: 2013-09-03

Hardcover: 208 pages

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* A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year ** A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice ** One of The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2013 ** A Kansas City Star Top Book of the Year *Mary and Eddie are meant for each other—but love is no guarantee, not in these su...

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Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse

by Edward Hoagland

Published: 2013-06-01

Hardcover: 240 pages

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This is not the Africa of Isak Dinesen, nor the Africa of Joy Adamson. This is the Africa of civil wars and tribal massacres, where the Lord’s Resistance Army recruits child-soldiers after forcing them to kill their parents and eat their hearts. The aid workers who voluntarily subject th...

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Year Zero: A History of 1945

by Ian Buruma

Published: 2013-09-26

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change ...

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Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America

by Jon Mooallem

Published: 2013-05-16

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2013 "Ambitious and fascinating... [Mooallem] seamlessly blends reportage from the front lines of wildlife conservation with a lively cultural history of animals in America... This is not a book about wilderness; it’s a book about us." --New York Ti...

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Color: A Natural History of the Palette

by Victoria Finlay

Published: 2003-12-30

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Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he couldn’t afford to buy it himself...

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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

by Margaret MacMillan

Published: 2013-10-29

Hardcover: 784 pages

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and MailFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinat...

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Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy

by Kenneth Pollack

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 560 pages

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How close are we to a nuclear Iran? What does it mean for American foreign policy? How did we get to this point? And what do we do now? In Unthinkable, Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA analyst with twenty-five years of experience working on the Middle East, explores America’s intractable pr...

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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov

Published: 2013-03-05

Hardcover: 432 pages

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In the very near future, ?smart” technologies and ?big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do ...