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Friends Like These

by Hannah Ellis

Published: 2015-11-25

Paperback: 400 pages

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When newly single Marie decides to shake up her social life, she has no idea what she is letting herself in for. With her sights set on the flamboyant Sebastian and his sophisticated group, Marie is sure that things are about to change for the better. But when a chance encounter brings some unlikely...

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The Fountain of Age

by Betty Friedan

Published: 2006-08-01

Paperback: 672 pages

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Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan charted her own voyage of discovery, and that of others, into a d...

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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

by Peter Hessler

Published: 2010-01-21

Kindle Edition: 561 pages

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“Hessler has a marvelous sense of the intonations and gestures that give life to the moment.” —The New York Times Book Review From Peter Hessler, the New York Times bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town, comes Country Driving, the third and final book in his award-winning...

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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

by Kevin Young

Published: 2017-11-14

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction“There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”?Marlon JamesAward-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxer...

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The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy: Subversive Reports from Another Reality (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

Published: 2017-07-10

Paperback: 256 pages

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The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K. Dick novel, about an "alternate present" (beginning in the 1960s) in which Germany and Japan won World War II, with the former Western US occupied by Japan, the former Eastern U.S. occupied by Nazi Germany, and a small...

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This Census-Taker

by China Miéville

Published: 2017-01-03

Paperback: 272 pages

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For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling author China Miéville.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR In a remote house on a hi...

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The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money

by Bastian Obermayer, Frederik Obermaier

Published: 2017-10-10

Paperback: 384 pages

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From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history.In early 2015, an anonymous whistle-blower led investigative journalists Bastian O...

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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian

by W. Kamau Bell

Published: 2017-05-02

Hardcover: 352 pages

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You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve read about him in the New York Times, which called him “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.” Or maybe from The New Yorker, fawning over his ...

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Obama: An Intimate Portrait, Deluxe Limited Edition

by Pete Souza

Published: 2017-11-07

Hardcover: 352 pages

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ABOUT THE DELUXE EDITION:This deluxe edition has been personally signed by Pete Souza.This collectible edition of Obama: An Intimate Portrait will stand the test of time. It is printed on heavy fine art paper, with every photograph protected by gloss varnish; bound in rich blue cloth, stam...

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Daughters of the Night Sky

by Aimie K. Runyan

Published: 2018-01-01

Hardcover: 301 pages

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A novel—inspired by the most celebrated regiment in the Red Army—about a woman’s sacrifice, courage, and love in a time of war.Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she’s dreamed of taking to the skies to...