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The war of 1971 was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since its partition in 1947. At one swoop, it led to the creation of Bangladesh, and it tilted the balance of...
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Write Like a Man

Write Like a Man

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How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics...
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No Fault

No Fault

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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025: Vogue, Vulture, Harper’s Bazaar, Bustle, Lit Hub, The Millions“Enigmatic, opalescent, so precise.” —Jia TolentinoAn intimate and candid account of one of the most...
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The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen

The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen

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*COMING IN FEBRUARY 2026! The second book the series: The Calico Cat at the Chibineko Kitchen* “Wonderful . . . A cozy, emotional gem . . . Each chapter is a quiet, healing moment, filled with food,...
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year • Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year “A bittersweet study in both grief and joy.” ­—Time “A sparklingly...
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Help Wanted | | 9781324105176

Help Wanted

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Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss,...
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Who Owns This Sentence?

Who Owns This Sentence?

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Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment,...
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Wild and Distant Seas

Wild and Distant Seas

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Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of...
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Boomers

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"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry CastleWith two recessions and a botched...
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Capital | | 9780691190075

Capital

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A major new translation of the explosive book that transformed our worldKarl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist...
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Dirty Pictures

Dirty Pictures

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In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set...
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1177 B. C.

1177 B. C.

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A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapseIn 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but...
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Shakespeare's Book

Shakespeare's Book

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The never-before-told story of how the makers of The First Folio created Shakespeare as we know him today. 2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of the publication of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies,...
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Promised Land

Promised Land

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A timely work of groundbreaking history explains how the American middle class ballooned at mid-century until it dominated the nation, showing who benefited and what brought the expansion to an end...
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City of Echoes

City of Echoes

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From a bold new historian comes a vibrant history of Rome as seen through its most influential persona throughout the centuries: the pope.Rome is a city of echoes, where the voice of the people has...
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The Children of Athena | | 9781639365159

The Children of Athena

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A brilliant, fascinating portrait of the intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers during the Age of Rome.In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years...
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Need to Know

Need to Know

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One of The New Yorker's "Best Books of the Year" * A Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize Finalist "Authoritative. . . . [Reynolds's] contribution to our understanding of the rise of American...
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The Call of the Tribe

The Call of the Tribe

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The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and...
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The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

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Neoliberalism is fracturing, but what will emerge in its wake?The global political, ecological, economic, and social breakdown—symbolized by Trump’s election—has destroyed faith that neoliberal...
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