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  • Moscow X
    Moscow X
    McCloskey, David
    A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its center?CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin’s moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max’s family business in Mexico—a CIA front since the 1960s—is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. ...

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  • And Then? and Then? What Else?
    And Then? and Then? What Else?
    Handler, Daniel (Lemony Snicket)
    You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten.Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from the author’s own path...

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  • Physics of Sorrow, The
    Physics of Sorrow, The
    Gospodinov, Georgi / Rodel, Angela
    A radical reimagining of the minotaur myth, from an essential voice in world literature.Winner of the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature • Finalist for the PEN Literary Award for Translation and the Strega EuropeoPublished a decade before his International Booker Prize–winning Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov’s The Physics of Sorrow has become an underground cult classic. Findin...

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  • Time Shelter
    Time Shelter
    Gospodinov, Georgi / Rodel, Angela
    An award-winning international sensation?with a second-act dystopian twist?Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets.“At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. “In the mid–seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher ...

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  • Road to Freedom,The
    Road to Freedom,The
    Stiglitz, Joseph E.
    From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom.We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies free...

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  • Age of Revolutions
    Age of Revolutions
    Zakaria, Fareed
    The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But...

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  • Heart and the Chip, The
    Heart and the Chip, The
    Rus, Daniela / Mone, Gregory
    Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help humankind.There is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance. A far greater number of smart machin...

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  • Waters, The
    Waters, The
    Campbell, Bonnie Jo
    A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town.On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp?an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan?herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are pow...

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  • This Other Eden
    This Other Eden
    Harding, Paul
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys’ ...

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  • Going Infinite
    Going Infinite
    Lewis, Michael
    From the best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center.When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, ont...

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  • This Is Salvaged
    This Is Salvaged
    Vara, Vauhini
    Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tr...

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  • Bad Mexicans
    Bad Mexicans
    Hernández, Kelly Lytle
    “Rebel historian” Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were...

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  • How to Make It in the New Music Business
    How to Make It in the New Music Business
    Herstand, Ari
    Hailed as an “indispensable” guide (Forbes), How to Make It in the New Music Business returns in a significantly revised and expanded third edition.How to Make It in the New Music Business, since its first publication in 2016, has become the go-to resource for musicians eager to make a living in a turbulent industry. Widely adopted by ambitious individuals and music schools acr...

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  • Doctors Blackwell, The
    Doctors Blackwell, The
    Nimura, Janice P
    New York Times Bestseller – Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in BiographyElizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment....

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  • Reality and Other Stories
    Reality and Other Stories
    Lanchester, John
    In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. "Signal," an eerie story of contemporary life and the perils of technology, was a sensation among readers?and since then Lanchester has written several more.Reality and Other Stories gathers the best of these, taking readers ...

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  • Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
    Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
    Cho, Nam-joo
    Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rampant misogyny. In a tidy apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, millennial "everywoman" Kim Jiyoung spends her days caring for her infant daughter. But strange symptoms appear: Jiyoung begins to impersonate the voices of other women, dead and alive. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her co...

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  • Shallows, The
    Shallows, The
    Carr, Nicholas
    New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize“This is a book to shake up the world.” —Ann PatchettNicholas Carr’s bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? This 10th-anniversary edition includes a new afterwor...

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  • Crudo
    Crudo
    Laing, Olivia
    It’s the summer of 2017 and Kathy is getting married. Meanwhile, fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever closer to nuclear war. In Crudo, her first work of fiction, Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel with a fierce, compassionate account of learning to love when the end of the world seems in sight. ...

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  • A Clockwork Orange
    A Clockwork Orange
    Burgess, Anthony
    In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and ...

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  • Overstory, The
    Overstory, The
    Powers, Richard
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in FictionAn Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light....

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  • Selected Poems 1950-2012
    Selected Poems 1950-2012
    Rich, Adrianne
    Author of more than thirty books, Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. Selected Poems offers a full and representative selection of poems from the whole of Rich's long and distinguished career. The volume encompasses her best-known work-the clear-sighted and passionate femi...

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  • Nomadland
    Nomadland
    Bruder, Jessica
    From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low--cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by...

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  • Fight Club
    Fight Club
    Palahniuk, Chuck
    Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original w...

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  • Norse Mythology
    Norse Mythology
    Gaiman, Neil
    Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales.In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son,...

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  • Guns, Germs and Steel
    Guns, Germs and Steel
    Diamond, Jared
    In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war -...

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  • Climbing Mount Improbable
    Climbing Mount Improbable
    Dawkins, Richard
    The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by chance? Tackling this subject (in writing that the New York Times called "a masterpiece"), Richard Dawkins builds a carefully reasoned and lovingly illustrated argument for evolutio...

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  • Glass Cage, The
    Glass Cage, The
    Carr, Nicholas
    At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day.In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over ...

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  • Liquid Intelligence
    Liquid Intelligence
    Arnold, Dave
    Winner of the 2015 James Beard Award for Best Beverage Book and the 2015 IACP Jane Grigson Award.A revolutionary approach to making better-looking, better-tasting drinks.In Dave Arnold’s world, the shape of an ice cube, the sugars and acids in an apple, and the bubbles in a bottle of champagne are all ingredients to be measured, tested, and tweaked.With Liquid Intelligence, the...

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  • Space Chronicles
    Space Chronicles
    Tyson, Neil deGrasse / Lang, Avis (Ed.)
    America’s space program is at a turning point. After decades of global primacy, NASA has ended the space-shuttle program, cutting off its access to space. No astronauts will be launched in an American craft, from American soil, until the 2020s, and NASA may soon find itself eclipsed by other countries’ space programs.With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil d...

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  • Metamorphosis, The
    Metamorphosis, The
    Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert...

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