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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Publishers Weekly looking for the next big thing in crafting are trying dot to dot, stamping, sketching, and more.
You Can Draw It in Just 30 Minutes: See It and Sketch It in a Half-Hour or Less
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Emmy Award-winning PBS host Mark Kistler's new book takes the adult coloring book craze to the next...
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5-Minute Sketching: Architecture: Super-Quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings
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Sketching has become very popular. In more than 60 cities around the world, from New Jersey, San...
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Draw Like This!
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Draw Like This! is a fully illustrated guide to drawing that will walk you through simple prompts...
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Drawing and Painting Animals with Expression
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A beautiful and inspirational guide to making your animal portraits and artworks leap to life. Learn...
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Draw and Color Your Way to a Younger Brain: Dogs, Cats, and Wild Animals
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Go beyond the calm coloring craze: Train your brain and enhance your memory as you copy, complete,...
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There is something for everyone this week, from difficult, essential history to fiction set in the 18th century to several new books for young readers.
GOOD NIGHT, PLANET
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In this tender, funny tale for early readers from internationally renowned cartoonist Liniers, a...
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Tumble & Blue
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Circus Mirandus comes the magic-infused story of a...
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Stars Beneath Our Feet
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A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death...
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After the Fall
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After the fall, Humpty Dumpty is a broken egg. Life is tough: he's so afraid of heights, he can't...
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A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
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'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the...
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‘Funny, outrageous, touching, intimate, gorgeous’ … writers from George Saunders to Ali Smith pick their favourite reads of the past year:
The Lost Words
Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane
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From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane -- an enchanting illustrated spell-book, to...
Still Life with Feeding Snake
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From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a...
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Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds
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WINNER OF THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE What the judges said: 'Every...
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Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
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A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands...
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Home Fire
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 From the Orange and Baileys Prize-shortlisted author...
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Politics plays the leading role in this week’s list of recommendations, starting with Joe Biden’s memoir about his son Beau’s death from brain cancer in 2015:
Catapult: Stories
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"Fridlund writes of families, marriage, and childhood as if our received wisdom--what we thought we...
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The Last Ballad
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The author of the celebrated bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home returns with this eagerly awaited...
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
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This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to...
The Shadow District
Arnaldur Indridason and Victoria Cribb
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OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCES THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled...
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
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"A deft character study of a president."--The New York Times Book Review "A valuable education on...
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The Times UK team travels from our ancient past to a robotic future:
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
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In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was...
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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused...
Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions
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The scientific story of first impressions--and why the snap character judgments we make from faces...
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there is no person better qualified or...
What Doesn’t Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude and Environmental Conditioning
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A New York Times bestseller Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a...
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The War of the Worlds
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 'Death!' I shouted....
Around the World in Eighty Days
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"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available,...
Three Cups of Tea
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One day Greg Mortenson set out to climb K2 - the world's second highest mountain - in honour of his...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez and Gregory Rabassa
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Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece of magical realism, One...
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You’ll find a pair of satirical Chinese novellas, a symphonic look at Germany’s fraught history and, in Leni Zumas’s “Red Clocks,” a dystopian vision of American patriarchy in this week's selection.
Gorilla and the Bird
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The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who...
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
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The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson's three daughters--two white and free, one black and...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
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In 2015, Noah Strycker, a young American birder, became the first person to see more than half of...
The Years, Months, Days
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A terrible drought hits the population of a small mountain village and they flee to better climes....
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
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As the President of the United States, Donald Trump continually voices admiration for brutal...
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