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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Published: 2004-02-17

Paperback: 336 pages

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Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the...

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The Dogs are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan

by Graeme Smith

Published: 2014-12-30

Hardcover: 304 pages

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With a new foreword by the author, The Dogs are Eating Them Now is a highly personal narrative of our war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Written by a respected and fearless former foreign correspondent who has won multiple awards for his journalism (including an Emmy for...

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The First Commandment: A Thriller (The Scot Harvath Series)

by Brad Thor

Published: 2011-04-26

Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages

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When the president of the United States is blackmailed into releasing five detainees from Guantanamo Bay, a sadistic assassin with a vendetta years in the making is reactivated. Suddenly, the people closest to counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath are being targeted and he realizes that somehow, somewhere...

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Ralph's Party: A Novel

by Lisa Jewell

Published: 2000-01-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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"Lisa Jewell pulls off a rare trick which even the likes of Helen Fielding and Nick Hornby couldn't quite manage. She has written a book about relationships, which appeals in equal measure to men and women."-The Times (London) Meet the residents of the London brownstone on 31 Almanac Road ...

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I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son

by Kent Russell

Published: 2015-03-10

Hardcover: 304 pages

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From one of the most ferociously brilliant and distinctive young voices in literary nonfiction: a debut shot through with violence, comedy, and feverish intensity that takes us on an odyssey into an American netherworld, exposing a raw personal journey along the way. Locked in battle with ...

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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids

by Meghan Daum

Published: 2015-03-31

Hardcover: 288 pages

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One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," and whether modern women could figure out a way to way to have it all—a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children—before their biological clock stopped ticking. ...

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The UnAmericans: Stories

by Molly Antopol

Published: 2014-10-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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* Longlisted for the National Book Award * A stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history, the debut work of fiction by a 2013 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree. An absentee father, a former dissident from communist-era Prague, needles his adult daughter f...

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Rich Man, Poor Man and Beggarman, Thief: In One Volume

by Irwin Shaw

Published: 2013-12-10

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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A special two-in-one edition of Irwin Shaw’s enthralling novels following the Jordache family’s struggle with the forces of change in mid-century AmericaIn Rich Man, Poor Man, siblings Rudy, Tom, and Gretchen Jordache grow up in a small town on the Hudson River. They’re in their te...

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My October

by Claire Holden Rothman

Published: 2014-09-02

Paperback: 352 pages

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Shortlisted for the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and  Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Luc Lévesque is a celebrated Quebec novelist and the anointed Voice of a Generation. In his hometown of Montreal, he is revered as much for his novels about the worki...

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I, Ripper: A Novel

by Stephen Hunter

Published: 2015-05-19

Hardcover: 320 pages

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“[A] dark, bloody triumph...convincingly mad, alternatively even-tempered, hallucinatory and cackling...the book’s characters are great, its race to capture the murder is beautifully tense, and it has one of the best twists I can remember in any recent historical thriller.” —The Ne...