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Dancer: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)

by Colum McCann

Published: 2015-06-02

Paperback: 352 pages

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Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist Colum McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the cast of those who knew him: there is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé from the stunted life of his ...

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Reckoning at Gossamer Pond

by Jaime Jo Wright

Published: 2018-07-03

Paperback: 352 pages

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For over a century, the town of Gossamer Grove has thrived on its charm and midwestern values, but Annalise Forsythe knows painful secrets, including her own, hover just beneath the pleasant faade. When a man is found dead in his run-down trailer home, Annalise inherits the trailer, alon...

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The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record

by Jonathan Scott

Published: 2019-05-21

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The fascinating story behind the mission, music, and message of NASA's Voyager Golden Record--humanity's message to the stars.In 1977, a team led by the great Carl Sagan was put together to create a record that would travel to the stars on the back of NASA's Voyager probe. They were respon...

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Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

by Matthew Stanley

Published: 2019-05-21

Hardcover: 400 pages

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KIRKUS STARRED REVIEWPUBLISHER'S WEEKLY STARRED REVIEWThe birth of a world-changing idea in the middle of a bloodbath   Einstein’s War is a riveting exploration of both the beauty of scientific creativity and enduring horrors of human nature. These two great forces battle in a story tha...

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The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

by Susan Hockfield

Published: 2019-05-07

Hardcover: 256 pages

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From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclea...

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How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

by Kate Mulgrew

Published: 2019-05-21

Hardcover: 352 pages

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In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter’s love for he...

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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

by Rachel Louise Snyder

Published: 2019-05-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

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“A seminal and breathtaking account of why home is the most dangerous place to be a woman . . . A tour de force.” ?Eve Ensler"Terrifying, courageous reportage from our internal war zone." ?Andrew Solomon"Extraordinary." ?New York Times “Gut-wrenching, required reading.” ?EsquireAn ...

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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination

by Brian Jay Jones

Published: 2019-05-07

Hardcover: 496 pages

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The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless f...

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The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm

by John Connell

Published: 2019-05-07

Hardcover: 256 pages

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For fans of The Shepherd’s Life, a poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son’s return home to his family’s farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old worldFarming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his...

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Autopsy of a Boring Wife

by Marie Renee Lavoie

Published: 2019-09-03

Paperback: 280 pages

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Like a Québécois Bridget Jones’s Diary, Marie-Renée Lavoie’s Autopsy of a Boring Wife tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband leaves her and is having an affair because, he says, she bores him. Diane takes the ch...