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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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  • Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
    Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
    Tick, Judith
    A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a tr...

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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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  • The Wren, the Wren
    The Wren, the Wren
    Enright, Anne
    An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel’s orderly ...

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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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  • Steppenwolf, The
    Steppenwolf, The
    Hesse, Hermann
    The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller-better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes captivated by her intoxicating power. Through their nighttime adventures, the Steppenwolf experiences the decadent underbelly of the bourgeois society he always despised. Harry becomes ...

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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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  • Bewilderment
    Bewilderment
    Powers, Richard
    A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory.The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’...

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  • Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, The
    Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, The
    Karunatilaka, Shehan
    Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war.Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where ...

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  • In the Language of Kings
    In the Language of Kings
    Leon Portilla, Miguel / Shorris, Earl
    From new interpretations of the glyphic writings of the Maya through the poetic response to events in modern Chiapas, here is a history of Mexico and Central America from the Indian point of view. In these pages the reader will encounter, often in new translations, the deeply affecting Aztec poems, the horrific battles of conquest, and the thoughtful philosophy of the Mayan "bi...

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  • Citadels of Pride
    Citadels of Pride
    Nussbaum, Martha C.
    In this essential philosophical and practical reckoning, Martha C. Nussbaum, renowned for her eloquence and clarity of moral vision, shows how sexual abuse and harassment derive from using people as things to one's own benefit-like other forms of exploitation, they are rooted in the ugly emotion of pride. She exposes three "Citadels of Pride" and the men who hoard power at the ...

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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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  • Atlas of the Invisible
    Atlas of the Invisible
    Cheshire, James
    Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti explore happiness leve...

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  • Of Woman Born
    Of Woman Born
    Rich, Adrienne
    The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience?as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mo...

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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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  • Selected Works of Audre Lorde, The
    Selected Works of Audre Lorde, The
    Lorde, Audre / Gay, Roxane (ed.)
    Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems?sele...

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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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  • 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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  • Man Who Made Things Out of Trees, The
    Man Who Made Things Out of Trees, The
    Penn, Robert
    The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it.Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is most closely bound up with who we are: the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. One frigid winter morning, Robert Penn lovingly selected an ash tree and cut it down. He wanted to see how man...

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  • Greek Way, The
    Greek Way, The
    Hamilton, Edith
    Edith Hamilton buoyantly captures the spirit and achievements of the Greek civilization for our modern world.In The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the Greek aesthetics of sculpture and writing and the lack of...

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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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  • 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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  • Death of King Arthur, The
    Death of King Arthur, The
    Anonymous / Armitage, Simon (translator)
    First appearing around 1400, The Death of King Arthur is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems penned in Middle English. While it is more than six centuries old, this magisterial new translation has finally given American readers the ability to experience the splendor and poignancy of the original. Echoing the lyrical passion that so distinguished ...

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  • Civilization and Its Discontents
    Civilization and Its Discontents
    Freud, Sigmund
    Written in the decade before Freud's death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer several questions fundamental to human society and its organization: What influences led to the creation of civilization? Why and h...

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  • Body Never Lies
    Body Never Lies
    Miller, Alice
    Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest itsel...

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  • Little Tales of Misogyny
    Little Tales of Misogyny
    Highsmith, Patricia
    "These stories, once you get the hang of them, are very wicked, very funny and?this being Highsmith’s mission in life, as far as one can tell?very unsettling." ?The GuardianWith an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbors into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In the darkly satiric, often mordantly hilar...

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  • Mandarins, The
    Mandarins, The
    Beauvoir, Simone de
    In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her ? Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren ? de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an ...

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  • Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, The, 1954-1955
    Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique...
    Lacan, Jaques
    This Seminar, together with Seminar I, which was published simultaneously, was worked on by both translators so as to produce uniformity in both terminology and style. Considerable attention was paid to the practices of previous translators of Lacan, in particular Anthony Wilden, Alan Sheridan, Stuart Schneiderman and Jacqueline Rose, in the hope that some consistency in the En...

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