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Mike Nichols
A Life
Hardcover
Mark Harris
9780399562242
$47.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 02, 2021
A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges—some of the worst largely unknown until now—by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came BackMike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four consecutive hit plays, won back-to-back Tonys, ushered in a new era of Hollywood moviemaking with Who...
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Tangled Up in Blue
Policing the American City
Hardcover
Rosa Brooks
9780525557852
$37.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 09, 2021
Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the “blue wall of silence” in this radical inside examination of American policingIn her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University, Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law’s troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world—and whether t...
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The Black Church
This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Hardcover
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
9781984880338
$40.00
HISTORY
Feb 16, 2021
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community’s abiding rock and its fortress.For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, segregated West Virginia town, the church was his family and his community’s true center of gravity. Within those walls, voices were lifted up in song to call forth the best in each other, and to comfort each other when times were at their worst....
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The Daughters of Kobani
A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
Hardcover
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
9780525560685
$36.00
HISTORY
Feb 16, 2021
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won“The Daughters of Kobani is an unforgettable and nearly mythic tale of women’s power and courage. The young women profiled in this book fought a fearsome war against brutal men in impossible circumstances—and proved in the process what girls and women can accomplish when given the chance to lead. Brilliantly researched and respectfully reported, this book is a lesson in heroism, sacrifice, and the real meaning of sisterhood. I am so grateful tha...
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The Empathy Diaries
A Memoir
Hardcover
Sherry Turkle
9780525560098
$37.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 02, 2021
MIT psychologist and bestselling author of RECLAIMING CONVERSATION and ALONE TOGETHER, Sherry Turkle’s intimate memoir of love and workFor decades, Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines. Here, she illuminates our present search for authentic connection in a time of uncharted challenges. Turkle has spent a career composing an intimate ethnography of our digital world; now, marked by insight, humility, and compassion, we have her own.In this vivid and poignant narrative, Turkle ties together her coming-of-a...
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2034
A Novel of the Next World War
Hardcover
Elliot Ackerman
9781984881250
$36.00
FICTION
Mar 09, 2021
From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034—and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge...
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Fierce Poise
Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
Hardcover
Alexander Nemerov
9780525560180
$37.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 23, 2021
A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century’s most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York“The magic of Alexander Nemerov’s portrait of Helen Frankenthaler in Fierce Poise is that it reads like one of Helen’s paintings. His poetic descriptions of her work and his rich insights into the years when Helen made her first artistic breakthroughs are both light and lush, seemingly easy and yet profound. His book is an ode to a truly great artist who, some seventy years after this story begi...
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The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy
What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens--and Ourselves
Hardcover
Arik Kershenbaum
9781984881960
$37.00
SCIENCE
Mar 16, 2021
From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space.Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time has come to abandon our fantasies of space invaders and movie monsters and place our expectations on solid scientific footing.But short of aliens land...
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Gold Diggers
A Novel
Hardcover
Sanjena Sathian
9781984882035
$36.00
FICTION
Apr 06, 2021
A brilliant Indian-American magical realist coming of age story and the debut of a major talentSpanning two continents, two coasts, and four epochs, Gold Diggers expertly balances social satire and magical realism in a classic striver story that skewers the model minority narrative, asking what a community must do to achieve the American dream. In razor sharp and deeply funny prose, Sathian perfectly captures what it is to grow up as a member of a family, of a diaspora, and of the American meritocracy. This blockbuster novel both entertains and...
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The Haunting of Alma Fielding
A True Ghost Story
Hardcover
Kate Summerscale
9780525557920
$37.00
TRUE CRIME
Apr 27, 2021
Internationally bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Kate Summerscale follows a ghost hunter in 1938 London in a case that illuminates changing social attitudes toward psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the supernaturalLondon, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, a young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding’s modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen jewellery appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car ...
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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
Hardcover
John Freeman
9781984877802
$37.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
May 04, 2021
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story celebrates this avalanche of talent.This ri...
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Series:
Finish Strong
A Father's Code and a Son's Path
Hardcover
Nate Ebner
9780525560852
$36.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 11, 2021
The inspiring story of Nate Ebner’s bond with his unconventional father and its remarkable consequencesNate Ebner and his father were inseparable. From an early age, they worked side-by-side in the family junkyard, where part of the job was dispensing citizen’s justice to aspiring robbers, and they worked out side-by-side in their grungy homemade gym. Even though Nate was a great peewee football player in football-mad Ohio, he followed his father’s passion for rugby and started playing for the same club as his father when he was only thirteen y...
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Inside Money
Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
Hardcover
Zachary Karabell
9781594206610
$40.00
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
May 18, 2021
A sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth and its rise to global powerConspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, and not without reason. Throughout the nineteenth century, when America was convulsed by a devastating financial panic essentially every twenty years, Brown Brothers quietly went from strength to strength, propping up the U.S. financial system at crucial moments and catalyzing successive booms, from the c...
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