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The Electric Hotel: A Novel

by Dominic Smith

Published: 2019-06-04

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love.For more than thirty years, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films who...

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Have You Seen Luis Velez?

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Published: 2019-05-21

Paperback: 320 pages

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An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde brings heartwarming authenticity to the story of two strangers who find that kindness is a powerful antidote to fear. Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesnâ??t belong. Not with his mother...

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Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny

by Witold Szablowski

Published: 2018-03-06

Paperback: 256 pages

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*As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered*“Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review“Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szab?owski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.” —Timothy Snyder, New York T...

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Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

by Yunte Huang

Published: 2018-04-03

Hardcover: 416 pages

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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist (Biography)New York Times Critics’ Best of the Year One of NPR's Great Reads of 2018 A Newsweek Best Nonfiction Book of the YearWith wry humor, Shakespearean profundity, and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of America’s...

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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

by Eric Klinenberg

Published: 2018-09-11

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”—Jon StewartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “Engaging.”—Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The New York Times Book...

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The Last Woman in the Forest

by Diane Les Becquets

Published: 2019-03-05

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From the national bestselling author of Breaking Wild, a riveting and powerful thriller about a woman whose greatest threat could be the man she loves.…Marian Engström has found her true calling: working with rescue dogs to help protect endangered wildlife. Her first assignment takes he...

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The Summer Cottage

by Viola Shipman

Published: 2019-04-23

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Advance Praise for THE SUMMER COTTAGE“Every now and then a new voice in fiction arrives to completely charm, entertain and remind us what matters. Viola Shipman is that voice and The Summer Cottage is that absolutely irresistible and necessary novel.” — New York Times Bestselling Aut...

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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

by Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz

Published: 2017-08-29

Paperback: 448 pages

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A renowned psychiatrist reveals how trauma affects children-and outlines the path to recovery "Fascinating and upbeat....Dr. Perry is both a world-class creative scientist and a compassionate therapist." (Mary Pipher, PhD)How does trauma affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover...

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Invitation to a Beheading

by Vladimir Nabokov

Published: 1989-09-19

Paperback: 240 pages

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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his ...

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A Night in the Lonesome October (Rediscovered Classics)

by Roger Zelazny

Published: 2014-10-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Loyally accompanying a mysterious knife-wielding gentleman named Jack on his midnight rounds through the murky streets of London, good dog Snuff is busy helping his master collect the grisly ingredients needed for an unearthly rite that will take place not long after the death of the moon....