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The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid

by Will Bardenwerper

Published: 2017-06-06

Hardcover: 272 pages

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In the haunting tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this remarkably insightful and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein lifts away the top layer of a dictator’s evil and finds complexity beneath as it invites us to take a journey with twelve young America...

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At Play in the Fields of the Lord

by Peter Matthiessen

Published: 1991-12-03

Paperback: 373 pages

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In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who i...

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

by Norman Ohler

Published: 2016-11-22

Hardcover: 368 pages

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GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow 'Blitzed is making me rethink everything I've ever seen and read about WWII... terrific!' Douglas Coupland 'A huge contribution... remarkable' Antony Beevor, BBC RADIO 4 'Extremely interesting...

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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

by Ellen Ullman

Published: 2017-08-08

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginabl...

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One Thousand White Women (20th Anniversary Edition): The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel

by Jim Fergus

Published: 2017-08-01

Paperback: 496 pages

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One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by...

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So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to My Little Sister

by Anna Akana

Published: 2017-06-13

Paperback: 208 pages

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From Internet sensation Anna Akana comes a candid and poignant collection of essays about love, loss, and chasing adulthood. In 2007, Anna Akana lost her teen sister, Kristina, to suicide. In the months that followed, she realized that the one thing helping her process her grief and begin ...

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Life Is a Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist

by Bruce Weber

Published: 2015-03-17

Paperback: 352 pages

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Life Is a Wheel chronicles the cross-country bicycle trip Bruce Weber made at the age of fifty-seven, an “entertaining travel story filled with insightful thoughts about life, family, and aging” (The Associated Press).During the summer and fall of 2011, Bruce Weber, an obituary writer ...

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Beren and Lúthien

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Published: 2017-06-01

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the followin...

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Gone Bitch: A Parody of Gone Girl

by Steve Lookner

Published: 2014-09-19

Paperback: 160 pages

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Meet Nick. He's kind of dumb. Meet his wife, Amy. She's kind of a bitch. One day Amy goes missing. What happened? Find out...in GONE BITCH!GONE BITCH is the hilarious new parody of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl which will have you on the edge of your seat and rolling on the floor. All your f...

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Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Anymore)

by Hadley Freeman

Published: 2016-06-14

Paperback: 352 pages

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From Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, a personalized guide to eighties movies that describes why they changed movie-making forever—featuring exclusive interviews with the producers, directors, writers and stars of the best cult classics.For Hadley Freeman, movies ...