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A letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, and a postwar ordinary life in search of atonement, in this “raw, visceral, and propulsive” novel (New York Times Book Review).A ...
Roger Bennett
Sep 12, 2020The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to ...
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Aug 11, 2020Surviving Autocracy
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"The Platonic ideal of the anti-Trump Trump book." --The Washington Post "An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyA bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times.In the run-up to the 2016 election...
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Aug 11, 2020What It's Like to Be a Bird
From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Sibley Guides)
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In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author. While its focus is on...
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Aug 11, 2020Winner of the 2018 Prix Goncourt, this poignant coming-of-age tale captures the distinct feeling of summer in a region left behind by global progress.August 1992. One afternoon during a heatwave in a desolate valley somewhere in eastern France, with its dormant blast furnaces and its lake, fourteen-year-old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a ...
Roger Bennett
Aug 11, 2020In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed in the sleepy southern college town of Athens, Georgia, only increased the fascination. Soon, more A...
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Aug 11, 2020The Last Taxi Driver
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Written by a former cabbie, The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a middle-aged hackie’s daylong descent into madness, heartbreak, and murder. Lou—a lapsed novelist and UFO aficionado—drives 70-hour weeks for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a north Mississippi college town among the trailer parks and housing...
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Megan AbbottThe Damned Utd
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Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he'd face there would make or break the club - or him.David Peace's extraordinarily inventive novel tells th...
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Mar 15, 2020Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and are a constant threat. Failure will r...
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Dec 19, 2019ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Washington Post ...
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Dec 19, 2019Trick Mirror
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From one of the brightest young chroniclers of US culture comes this dazzling collection of essays on the internet, the self, feminism and politicsWe are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker’s brightest young talent...
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Dec 19, 2019Turbulence by David Szalay
Places and Names by Elliot Ackerman
Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman
Ohio by Stephen Markley
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
The Future Is History by Masha Gessen
Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World by Richard Scarry
Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond
Belonging by Nora Krug
Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman
A Life Too Short by Ronald Reng
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
The Return by Hisham Matar
The World to Come by Jim Shepard
Faith of Our Families by James Corbett