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Role Models

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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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Young Romantics
The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives

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Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective—celebrating their extreme youth...
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Exiles

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Back in print, “a wry and moving . . . rare and minute accounting of growing up.” (Time) Exiles is the story of two glamorous people—one, a beautiful...
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Cooking Dirty
A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen

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Cooking Dirty is a rollicking account of life “on the line” in the neighborhood restaurants—far from culinary school, cable TV, and the Michelin Guide—where...
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Carrying the Fire
An Astronaut's Journeys

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The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing...
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Origins
A Memoir

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Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning intergenerational saga. Set during the last quarter of the nineteenth...
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Convictions
A Prosecutor’s Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves

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As an Assistant United States Attorney, John Kroger pursued high-profile cases against mafia killers, drug kingpins, and Enron executives. In Convictions,...
  
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My Life as a Traitor
An Iranian Memoir

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At the age of twenty, Zarah Ghahramani was swept off the streets of Tehran and taken to the notorious Evin prison, where criminals and political dissidents...
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Intern
A Doctor's Initiation

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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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Bella Abzug
How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way

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"A remarkable work of oral history [and] a fond, provocative testament to a remarkable life."* “A fabulous read about a breed of politician now largely...

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West with the Night

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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

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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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The Habit of Being
Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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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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The Headmaster
Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield

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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

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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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Son of the Morning Star
Custer and The Little Bighorn

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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 Life You Save May Be Your Own
An American Pilgrimage

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The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to...
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The Gastronomical Me

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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...
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The Dark Child
The Autobiography of an African Boy

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The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent...
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
The Story of a Year

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It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner...
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Memoirs

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The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize The south of Chile was a...
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Fierce Attachments
A Memoir

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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous...
  
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Levels of the Game

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This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial...
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Lose Your Mother
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

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In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following...