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The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

by Toni Morrison

Published: 2017-09-18

Hardcover: 136 pages

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America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to constru...

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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

by Daniel Mendelsohn

Published: 2017-09-12

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and NewsdayA Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford PrizeFrom award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's t...

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Of Love and Shadows: A Novel

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2016-03-29

Paperback: 336 pages

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This profoundly moving tale of love, bravery, and tragedy by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende brings to life a country ruled with an iron fist—and the men and women who dare to challenge it.Irene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist, an unusua...

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The Body in the Clouds: A Novel

by Ashley Hay

Published: 2017-07-18

Paperback: 320 pages

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“Exquisite…a rich, meditative novel that explores the connectivity of people living in the same geographical space across the distance of time.” —New York Times Book ReviewFrom the acclaimed author of the “exquisitely written and deeply felt” (Geraldine Brooks, author of The S...

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Five Days in May

by Ninie Hammon

Published: 2011-04-10

Hardcover: 324 pages

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A TWISTER'S COMING. A BIG ONE. A MONSTER F5.  A MILE WIDE AND EIGHT MILES TALL.         The writhing finger of death hurls across the prairie toward Graham, OK., one Friday afternoon in May, 1963, on a collision course with the lives of 4 people--each of whom has already planned a p...

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Stars

by Antony Lishak

Published: 2014-01-10

Paperback: 296 pages

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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult

by Bruce Handy

Published: 2017-08-15

Hardcover: 336 pages

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An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful—and totally original—ramble through classic children’s literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy. “Consistently intelligent and funny…The book succeeds wonderfully.” —The New York Times Book Review“A de...

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The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World

by Haemin Sunim

Published: 2017-02-07

Hardcover: 288 pages

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As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered—A multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world“Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?”The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. In this bestselli...

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A Hiss Before Dying: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

by Rita Mae Brown

Published: 2017-05-30

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered leaves hide a grim surprise. “As feline collaborators go, you couldn’t...

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Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep

by Michael Schulman

Published: 2016-04-26

Hardcover: 304 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA portrait of a woman, an era, and a profession: the first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep—the “Iron Lady” of acting, nominated for nineteen Oscars and winner of three—that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling wit...