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Feb 4, 2018 (Updated Feb 5, 2018)
If the 21st-century world order has you longing for the comparatively clear politics of the Cold War or you’re focused on the future, this is your lucky week.
Grace
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GRACE is a sweeping, Dickensian story of a young girl on a life-changing journey across...
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Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
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With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four...
Glass Houses
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When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest...
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The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical
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Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers, but he has remained...
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Made For Love
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Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane—his...
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Dec 13, 2017 (Updated Dec 14, 2017)
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century
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The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame...
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An...
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
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#1 New York Times Bestseller “Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale...
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday Times SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE by director Ron...
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller: The essential universe, from a celebrated and beloved...
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Fall fiction is here and ready to entertain you, as new novels by Nicole Krauss, Salman Rushdie and Nathan Englander can attest.
The Golden House
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When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious...
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Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A Novel
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The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable...
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Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
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"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born...that at some point each year...
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A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial
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A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Vietnam Vet Revisits the Culture War that Raged around...
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Nonfiction recommendations this week will set you off on a journey, whether retracing the steps of the “Odyssey” with the memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn, or the senior-citizen workampers of “Nomadland.”
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic
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From the best-selling author of 'The Lost', a deeply moving tale of a father, a son and the lessons...
Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream
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The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico...
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The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel
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A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small...
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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR | NAMED A BEST FALL...
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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
Oona Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
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A bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked...
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Two of the year’s most highly anticipated books are on this week’s New York Times list of recommendations:
Bluebird, Bluebird
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Southern fables usually go the other way around: a white woman killed or harmed in some way, real or...
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One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported
E.J. Dionne Jr., Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann
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A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After...
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Afterglow: A Dog's Memoir
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Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic...
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The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth
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The remarkable conclusion to the highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic trilogy that began with...
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At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York
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From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a...
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We’re nearing the season for ghost stories — or in some cases un-ghost stories and cautionary tales about what happens when we try too hard to put our history behind us.
Fresh Complaint
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The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides,...
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A Properly Unhaunted Place
William Alexander and Kelly Murphy
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From National Book Award–winning author William Alexander comes a wryly humorous story about two...
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The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse
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Early one morning a mouse met a wolf and was quickly gobbled up... When a woeful mouse is swallowed...
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
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From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural...
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Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
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The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the...
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Several seismic events occurred in the past week including the release of a new John Green novel, “Turtles All the Way Down,” and the Ron Chernow biography, “Grant.”
Akata Warrior: Akata Witch Series
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A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, a 12-year-old American born girl raised mostly in Nigeria, was inducted...
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Complete Stories: Kurt Vonnegut
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Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost...
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
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Published in 1998 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History, GOTHAM: A History of New York to 1898...
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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'A top sleep scientist argues that sleep is more important for our health than diet or exercise' The...
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The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World
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What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically,...
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Books about Russian history and current events round out our list this week, from biographies of Lenin and Stalin to Masha Gessen’s study of post-Soviet life, “The Future Is History.”
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
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Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English...
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For Two Thousand Years
Mihail Sebastian and Philip O Ceallaigh
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'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For...
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
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‘A stunning debut – because there is nothing debut about it’ A.M. Homes Aged 13, Joan Ashby...
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The Meaning of Belief: Religion From an Atheist’s Point of View
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Current debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many...
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