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Land's End
A Walk in Provincetown

Picador
"Cunningham’s short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." —The Washington Post "Easily read on a plane-and-ferry...
  
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Exit Interview

Sarah Crichton Books
When David Westin became president of ABC News in March 1997, the division was treading water. “It looked like all the really important news was behind us,” he...
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Cuban Star
How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball

Hill and Wang
When the selection committee voted Alejandro “Alex” Pompez into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, some cried foul. A Negro-league owner during baseball’s...
  
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Soul Mining
A Musical Life

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, U2, Peter Gabriel, and the Neville Brothers all have something in common: some of their best albums were produced by...
  
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Some of My Lives
A Scrapbook Memoir

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life—remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience—and she has known many (one is tempted to say all)...
  
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Conversations with Myself

Picador
Foreword by President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts...
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The Clamorgans
One Family’s History of Race in America

Hill and Wang
The historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans to chronicle how one family navigated race in America...
  
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A Great Unrecorded History
A New Life of E. M. Forster

Picador
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ALA Stonewall Honor Book Finalist for...
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Role Models

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify—readers...
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Positively 4th Street
The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña

Picador
Tenth Anniversary Edition The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich...

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Night

Hill and Wang
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...
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A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Sarah Crichton Books
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean,...
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All But My Life
A Memoir

Hill and Wang
A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein’s celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman’s three frightful years as a...
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West with the Night

North Point Press
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.
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A Small Place

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If...
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Intern
A Doctor's Initiation

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Intern is Dr. Sandeep Jauhar’s story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question his every...
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Catfish and Mandala
A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

Picador
Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer...
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The Habit of Being
Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award "I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a...
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Touching from a Distance
Ian Curtis and Joy Division

Faber and Faber, Inc.
The only in-depth biographical accoutn of the lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Revered by his peers -- Bono described his voice as "holy"...
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The Headmaster
Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with...
  
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A Sense of Where You Are
Bill Bradley at Princeton

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee’s first book, is about Bradley when he was the...
  
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Gertrude Bell
Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations

Sarah Crichton Books
A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to...
  
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Son of the Morning Star
Custer and The Little Bighorn

North Point Press
Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people...
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The Gastronomical Me

North Point Press
In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real...