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Nov 16, 2017
The Washington Post's annual survey of the best books includes 10 they think are exceptionally rewarding:
Sing, Unburied, Sing
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A searing and profound odyssey bringing the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first century...
Saints for All Occasions
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Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland...
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
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The definitive account of Barack Obama’s life before he became the 44th president of the United...
biography politics
Lincoln in the Bardo
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The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book...
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The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biography
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The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots....
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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list
Nov 8, 2017
Whether you’re a fan of Krysten Ritter or Brandon Sanderson, there’s something for every reader to love in November’s most anticipated books.
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 – 1992
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The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in...
biography
Oathbringer: The Stormlight Archive Book Three
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From the bestselling author who completed Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series comes a new,...
The City of Brass: Daevabad Trilogy
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Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18-century Cairo,...
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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies
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Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon—the legacy of P. T....
history politics social issues
Artemis
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon,...
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Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World, Made in H.M. Bark Endeavour, 1768-71: A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS
James Cook and William James Lloyd Wharton
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Famed for his exploration of the Pacific and Australasia, James Cook (1728-79) was also an excellent...
The Cinematic Eighteenth Century: History, Culture, and Adaptation
Steven Thomas and Srividhya Swaminathan
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This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the...