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People Who Eat Darkness
The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

FSG Originals
Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter,...
  
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia...
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I Am the Market
How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons

Faber and Faber, Inc.
A page-turning account of the international cocaine trade, presented as five lessons in how to move tons of the drug across borders Forget about cocaine...
  
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Beautiful Souls
Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times

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On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a...
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Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck
Why We Can't Look Away

Sarah Crichton Books
Why can’t we look away? Whether we admit it or not, we’re fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has...
  
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Herding Donkeys
The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics

Picador
With a New Afterword In 2008, Barack Obama’s groundbreaking presidential campaign seemingly rewrote all the rules in electoral politics and heralded a new...
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From Beirut to Jerusalem

Picador
National Bestseller Winner of the National Book Award Updated with a New Chapter Author of The World Is Flat and That Used to Be Us One of the most...
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Examined Lives
From Socrates to Nietzsche

Picador
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the...
  
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The Shadow World
Inside the Global Arms Trade

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Shadow World is the harrowing behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, revealing the deadly collusion that all too often exists among senior...
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Starstruck
The Business of Celebrity

Faber and Faber, Inc.
How was Nike able to take a gamble on an unknown Michael Jordan and transform itself from a $900 million company to a $9.19 billion company in less than...

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Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?

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“For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport,” The Nation’s reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book—based on his legendary Harvard...
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That Used to Be Us
How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

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America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be...
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The World Is Flat 3.0
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

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A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly...
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Sophie's World
A Novel About the History of Philosophy

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers...
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year A Chicago...
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High Line
The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky

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How two New Yorkers led the transformation of a derelict elevated railway into a grand—and beloved—open space The High Line, a new park atop an ele-vated...
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Stories from Rwanda

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill...
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Understanding China [3rd Edition]
A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

Hill and Wang
After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at stake in...
  
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Regarding the Pain of Others

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Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture...
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Dead Aid
Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

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A national bestseller, Dead Aid unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to...
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The Good Soldiers

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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE NEW YORK TIMES CHICAGO TRIBUNE SLATE.COM THE BOSTON GLOBE THE KANSAS CITY STAR THE PLAIN DEALER (CLEVELAND) THE...
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Conversations with Myself

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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 White Album
Essays

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the...
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Games for Writing
Playful Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Write

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
There is no skill more important for a child to master more than writing - and none more difficult or fraught with anxiety. Peggy Kaye, renowned teacher and...