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Restoration, Paperback - Rose Tremain

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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, Paperback - Michael Lewis

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Reducere. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions a...

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Sweet Lamb of Heaven, Paperback - Lydia Millet

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She Had Some Horses, Paperback - Joy Harjo

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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys Into Race, Motherhood, and History, Paperback - Camille T. Dungy

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Red Cavalry, Paperback - Isaac Babel

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Isaac BabelAuthor: Nathalie BabelTranslator: Peter ConstantineOne of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red ...

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The Trouble Ball: Poems, Paperback - Martin Espada

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The Lost Land: Poems, Paperback - Eavan Boland

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Reducere. DescriptionA collection of poems which offer a curative gift of merciful vision to Ireland. The author's narrators wait more or less patiently in t...

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Man's Search for Himself, Paperback - Rollo May

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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Paperback - Caitlin Doughty

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Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places, Paperback - Robert MacFarlane

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After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie, Paperback - Jean Rhys

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Cascade: Stories, Paperback - Craig Davidson

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The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster That Launched the War on Cancer, Paperback - Jennet Conant

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On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand s...

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Miss Jane, Paperback - Brad Watson

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Reducere. Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South,...

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Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories, Paperback - Robert Shapard

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Reducere. After publication of the first Flash Fiction anthology over a decade ago, flash became part of the creative writing lexicon for readers, writers, s...

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The Overstory, Hardcover - Richard Powers

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The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of th...

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Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, Paperback - William Bryant Logan

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The Gustav Sonata, Paperback - Rose Tremain

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Reducere. Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives a...

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The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself, Paperback - Susan Bell

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The Mayor of Casterbridge, Paperback - Thomas Hardy

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Description"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides new and invaluable source material on Victorian Dorset and, in particular, Dorchester, Hardy's nativ...

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Unreliable Memoirs, Paperback - Clive James

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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language, Paperback - Emma Byrne

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Reducere. DescriptionIn this sparkling debut work of popular science, Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you. She e...

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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, Paperback - Jessica Bruder

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Reducere. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, lo...

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Vanity Fair, Paperback - William Makepeace Thackeray

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"Criticism" is a collection of nine essays written between 1900 and 1990 that reveal the developing response to Vanity Fair. William C. Brownell, D...

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Local Visitations: Poems, Paperback - Stephen Dunn

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In his twelfth collection, his first since winning the Pulitzer Prize, Stephen Dunn turns his keen gaze on Sisyphus, our contemporary Everyman. Fre...

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Power and the Structure of Society, Paperback - James Samuel Coleman

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The Book of Embraces the Book of Embraces, Paperback - Eduardo Galeano

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Reducere. Eduardo Galeano's is considered a passionate literary voice. In The Book of Embraces, he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragm...

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Night at the Fiestas: Stories, Paperback - Kirstin Valdez Quade

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Tularosa: A Kevin Kerney Novel, Paperback - Michael McGarrity

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Reducere. It's been two years since an on-the-job shooting forced ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney to retire. He is drawn back into action when T...

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Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis a Constructive Theory of Neurosis, Paperback - Karen Horney

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Unlike Freud, Horney does not regard neurosis as rooted in instinct. In her words, her theory is constructive because "it allows us for the first t...

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The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health, Paperback - David R. Montgomery

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Reducere. Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. Good health--for people and for plants--depends on Earth's smallest creat...

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Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism, Paperback - Bartow J. Elmore

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How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but...

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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, Paperback - Helen Czerski

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Reducere. Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski's lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. Czerski provides the tools to ...

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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia, Paperback - Anthony M. Townsend

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We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "...

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The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocals of the Elders of Zion, Paperback - Will Eisner

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The Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon s...

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, Paperback - Caitlin Doughty

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Reducere. Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty--a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macab...

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''What Do You Care What Other People Think''': Further Adventures of a Curious Character, Paperback - Richard P. Feynman

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Reducere. Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" this book's many stories-some funny, others intensely movi...

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The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock, Paperback - David Weigel

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The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock. Epitomized by such classic, chart...

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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art, Paperback - David Salle

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How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminat...

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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, Paperback - Michael Lewis

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Reducere. "Guaranteed to make blood boil." --Janet Maslin, New York TimesIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclast...

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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems, Paperback - Joy Harjo

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Reducere. She draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine in...

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Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives, Paperback - Russell Shorto

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DescriptionAt a time when America's founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those prin...

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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World, Paperback - Joshua B. Freeman

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In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has refl...

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Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System, Paperback - Charles Wheelan

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Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small...

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Deep Water, Paperback - Patricia Highsmith

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Reducere. Vic and Melinda Van Allen's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce...

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The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You, Paperback - Sylvia Tara

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Ripley Under Ground, Paperback - Patricia Highsmith

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Selected Poems: 1950-2012, Paperback - Adrienne Rich

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Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. Thi...

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The Forgotten Waltz, Paperback - Anne Enright

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Voyage in the Dark, Paperback - Jean Rhys

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The Ugly American, Paperback - Eugene Burdick

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Appropriate: A Provocation, Paperback - Paisley Rekdal

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A Tranquil Star: Stories, Paperback - Primo Levi

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These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the prima...

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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic, Paperback - Gay Salisbury

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A Firing Offense, Paperback - David Ignatius

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Invisible Monsters, Paperback - Chuck Palahniuk

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You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin, Paperback - Rachel Corbett

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The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, Paperback - Diane Ackerman

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The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem, Paperback - Sandra Tsing Loh

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The Fortune of War, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, Paperback - Rainer Maria Rilke

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The Hundred Days, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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Writing History in the Global Era, Paperback - Lynn Hunt

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Reducere. Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines wh...

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Once Upon a River, Paperback - Bonnie Jo Campbell

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Girl with Curious Hair, Paperback - David Foster Wallace

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Reducere. Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real, " almost ...

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Townie: A Memoir, Paperback - Andre Dubus III

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The Green Road, Paperback - Anne Enright

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Reducere. From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a ta...

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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, Paperback - Patrick Phillips

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Reducere. Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers,...

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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA, Paperback - Doug Mack

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Reducere. Everyone knows that America is 50 states and...some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states--American ...

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