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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell מאת Susanna Clarke

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I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage מאת Susan Squire A provocative survey of marriage and what it has meant for society, politics, religion, and the home.For ten thousand years, marriage—and the idea of marriage—has been at the very foundation of human society. In this provocative and ambitious book, Susan Squire unravels the turbulent h...

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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East מאת Sandy Tolan In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia A...

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Austenland: A Novel מאת Shannon Hale A big success in hardcover, this novel by New York Times bestselling author of Princess Academy is sure to find a new and substantial audience in paperback.Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man—perhaps because of her secret obsession with M...

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JPod: A Novel מאת Douglas Coupland JPod, Douglas Coupland’s most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with “J” are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massiv...

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The Line of Beauty: A Novel מאת Alan Hollinghurst THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE 2004 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION, AND NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST   Winner of 2004’s Man Booker Prize for fic...

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The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel מאת Shannon Hale A very different kind of fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale. What if you were to meet the number-one person on your laminated list—you know, that list you joke about with your significant other about which five celebrities you’...

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The Gum Thief: A Novel מאת Douglas Coupland “Wildly differing perspectives merge beautifully into one cohesive look at loneliness and despair. Yes, Coupland is dark and cutting about our fluorescent-lit times, but there's also a real underlayer of gratitude here, for the hand that can reach down and unite with you in the darkne...

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City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s מאת Edmund White An irresistible literary treat: a memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City’s cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White. In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic co...

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Tthe story of the lost child מאת Elena Ferrante For readers of Beautiful Boy and Hurry Down Sunshine, a deeply personal and moving account of two lost children separated by two centuries. While researching her next book, Julie Myerson finds herself in a graveyard, looking for traces of a young woman who die...

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West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief מאת Steven Kotler A spiritual and scientific surf quest, West of Jesus tracks a contemporary surfing myth and looks at the neuroscience that connects spirituality and high risk sport.  After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, h...

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Mediated: How the Media Shapes Our World and the Way We Live in It מאת Thomas de Zengotita In this utterly original look at our modern “culture of performance,” de Zengotita shows how media are creating self-reflective environments, custom made for each of us. From Princess Diana’s funeral to the prospect of mass terror, from oral sex in the Oval Office to cowboy politics ...

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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read מאת Pierre Bayard “Provocative, challenging and witty…In challenging the line between reading and non-reading, Bayard actually whet my appetite to read more.”—USA Today With so many important books out there, and thousands more being published each year, what are we supposed to ...

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly מאת Anthony Bourdain New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't ...

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Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness מאת Dean Kuipers Rod Coronado was already one of America’s most notorious radical environmentalists when he launched Operation Bite Back, a war on fur farming that left a trail of burned-out labs and farms across the country and made him the subject of an intense, years-long FBI manhunt. Now his ...

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Sarah: A Novel מאת J. T. LeRoy The national bestselling first novel by a virtuosic young talent. Cherry Vanilla, twelve years old with a penchant for short leather skirts and make-up, has one dream: to become the most famous 'lot lizard', or truck stop whore, in the business. With his blond curls and his naked ambition he is det...

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An Ordinary Spy: A Novel מאת Joseph Weisberg “This book is surely the best portrait of the working C.I.A. we have had in many years.” —New York Times Book Review The most riveting and inventive spy novel to come along in years, published as vetted by the CIA itself, An Ordinary Spy is a dramatic port...

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The Glorious Nosebleed מאת Edward Gorey The Glorious Nosebleed, an alphabet created with Edward Gorey’s inimitable sense of the weird and the macabre, trips from A to Z with illustrations that are both strikingly funny and a bit weird, all the way from “She wandered among the trees Aimlessly” to “He wrote it all d...

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change מאת Elizabeth Kolbert Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magaz...

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The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You מאת Mark Buchanan The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people’s choices be predicted by a single theory? How can any economic, social, or political the...

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Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life מאת Sam Wang The popular, myth-busting guide to the neuroscience of everyday life, by two high-profile neuroscientists. In this lively book, Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang dispel common myths about the brain and provide a comprehensive, useful overview of how it really works. I n its pages, y...

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The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution מאת Pagan Kennedy “Part biography, part cultural history, The First Man-Made Man is a dramatic, revelatory narrative that brightly illuminates the psyche of the first female-to-male.”—Chicago Sun Times In the 1920s, when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman’s b...

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The Devil's Dictionary מאת Ambrose Bierce Bierce's classic work of satirical wit and Steadman's pointed pen redefine the way we see even the seemingly simplest of terms.Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.Bride, n.: A woman with a great future behind her.Consult<...

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The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef מאת Marco Pierre White “There hasn’t been a food memoir this deliciously wicked since Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential.”—Portland OregonianThe Devil in the Kitchen is legendary chef Marco Pierre White’s memoir of growing up working-class in Leeds and going on to become a king in the cul...

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What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life, and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day מאת Christopher Lloyd A gorgeously illustrated and wholly comprehensive timeline of the earth's entire history that explains how everything is interconnected. As comprehensive as the subtitle suggests, What on Earth Happened is a primer for Planet Earth, a giant narrative leap across tim...

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The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion מאת Edward Gorey An infectiously funny guide to post-deflowerment decorum, with illustrations by a master of the absurd. For more than half a century Miss Hyacinthe Phypps has been offering guidance on proper behavior. Her simple rules of propriety and common sense have helped a generation of...

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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris מאת Edmund White “One has the impression, reading The Flâneur, of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn’t otherwise see…Edmund White tells such a good story that I’m ready to listen to an...

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The Promise of Happiness: A Novel מאת Justin Cartwright “A beautifully observed, emotionally detailed novel about one family’s decline and regeneration.”—New York Times A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick (U.K.)Winner of 2005 Hawthornden Prize (U.K.) for Best Work of Imaginative LiteratureWinner of the 2005 South African Su...

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An Ordinary Spy: A Novel מאת Joseph Weisberg A former CIA case officer’s novel about two embattled spies who go to extraordinary lengths to keep their informants out of harm’s way, published as vetted by the agency itself. Mark Ruttenberg may not be fit for the CIA. Early in his tenure with the agency, he learns abo...

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The Age of Orphans: A Novel מאת Laleh Khadivi The story of a Kurdish boy forced to betray his people in service of the new Iranian nation, and the tragic consequences as he grows into manhood. Before following his father into battle, he had been like any other Kurdish boy: in love with his Maman, fascinated by...

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In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age מאת Stephanie Cooke From the Manhattan Project to the present energy crisis and what it means for our future, a sweeping chronicle of our recurring failure to manage the power of the atom. This provocative history of nuclear power is perfectly timed for today, when Americans are grave...

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For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond מאת Ben Macintyre A riveting look into the world of James Bond and his creator, published on the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth.In For Your Eyes Only, Ben Macintyre reveals where the world of Ian Fleming ends and the world of James Bond begins. Macintyre looks at the actual people on whom th...

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The Scorpion's Sweet Venom: The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl מאת Bruna Surfistinha “If I'm going to be a prostitute, I refuse to be an ordinary one." Known to her clients as “Bruna the Surfer Girl,” Surfistinha is the beautiful 17-year-old Brazilian run-away from a middle class family who detailed online her three years working as a prostitute in a posh Brazilia...

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The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef מאת Marco Pierre White What do Mario Batali, Heston Blumenthal, and Gordon Ramsay have in common? Answer: They all survived tours of duty in the kitchen of Marco Pierre White. In the UK, White’s brilliant cooking and high-wattage antics have made him a legend: the first British chef (and the youngest chef anyw...

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Restless: A Novel מאת William Boyd Someone is trying to kill Sally Gilmartin. It is the summer of 1976, and the only person she can trust is her daughter, Ruth, a young single mother struggling with her own demons. Now Sally must tell her daughter the truth: She is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré recruited fo...

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The Butt: A Novel מאת Will Self One of contemporary fiction’s most “wickedly brilliant…endlessly talented” (Publishers Weekly) satirists delivers a dystopian novel skewering global politics and Big Brother-style government post-9/11. When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he in...

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A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano מאת Katie Hafner A grand tale of obsession about the brilliant Glenn Gould and the unique, temperamental instrument he came to love beyond all others, by a top New York Times writer.Glenn Gould was one of the most complex, brilliant artists of the twentieth century, a musician famous for bizarre hab...

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The Indian Clerk: A Novel מאת David Leavitt The brilliant new novel from one of our most respected writers—his most ambitious and accessible to date.  On a January morning in 1913, G. H. Hardy—eccentric, charismatic and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age—receives in the m...

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The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit מאת Amy Goldman From the world-class garden of acclaimed food writer Amy Goldman, a gorgeously illustrated guide to the world’s most beautiful and delicious tomatoes. Every year, renowned grower Amy Goldman produces an amazing 500 varieties of tomatoes on her farm in New York’s Hudson Valley....

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The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones מאת Anthony Bourdain In the multiweek New York Times bestseller The Nasty Bits, bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures.  Whether surviving a lethal hot pot in Cheng...

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Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur: A Mythological Dating Guide מאת Francesca Lia Block From bestselling author Francesca Lia Block, an imaginative new guide to dating based on the timeless wisdom of myth, folklore, and fairy tales. Navigating the world of dating can be like wandering an enchanted forest, full of creatures with peculiar habits and baffling behav...

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The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things מאת J. T. Leroy The extraordinary stories that brought the author a cult following at the age of sixteen.These are the stories of a young boy on the run, away from his past, hellbent towards an unknown future. Connected, they form a sometimes harrowing, sometimes bleakly funny, and often tender portrait of a compli...

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Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood מאת Taras Grescoe An eye-opening look at aquaculture that does for seafood what Fast Food Nation did for beef. Dividing his sensibilities between Epicureanism and ethics, Taras Grescoe set out on a nine-month, worldwide search for a delicious—and humane—plate of seafood. What he dis...

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Paris: The Secret History מאת Andrew Hussey If Adam Gopnik’s Paris to the Moon described daily life in contemporary Paris, this book describes daily life in Paris throughout its history: a history of the city from the point of view of the Parisians themselves. Paris captures everyone’s imaginations: It’s a backdrop for Prous...

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In the Merde for Love מאת Stephen Clarke The latest episode in Stephen Clarke’s almost-true account of his adventures as an expat in France is just as winning as the first. This “anti-Mayle” will have readers chortling over their croissants and café au lait while Paul West struggles to solve the mysteries inherent in life ...

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The Paranoid's Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On מאת Dennis DiClaudio Hot on the heels of the wildly successful The Hypochondriac’s Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have comes The Paranoid’s Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On, Dennis DiClaudio’s hilarious look at fifty disturbingly familiar ...

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Friday Nights: A Novel מאת Joanna Trollope From the master of literary domestic drama, a page-turning novel that dissects the complexities of female friendship and the choices that define women’s lives.It is Eleanor who starts the Friday night get-togethers. From her window she sees two young women, with small children, separate,...

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The Indian Clerk: A Novel מאת David Leavitt “Richly imagined [and] impressive” (New York Times Book Review), this critically acclaimed and emotionally charged novel about the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown—and unschooled—mathematical genius is ...

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No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach מאת Anthony Bourdain An illustrated, behind-the-scenes travel journal of Anthony Bourdain’s global adventures. More than just a companion to the hugely popular show, No Reservations is Bourdain’s fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels. The book traces his trips from New Zealand t...

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Whatever Makes You Happy: A Novel מאת William Sutcliffe Can three mothers save their shiftless sons from themselves—in just one week? Gillian, Helen, and Carol are three suburban mothers who have known each other since their respective sons were babies, and have met in a regular coffee group for years. These days, their sons are a bunch o...

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Friday Nights: A Novel מאת Joanna Trollope “A careful and compelling examination of one man’s insidious effect on a group of female friends, as memorable as it is readable.”—Publishers Weekly Joanna Trollope’s warm, insightful novel stars Eleanor, who, in a chance encounter, invites two youn...

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The Party After You Left מאת Roz Chast The Party, After You Left brings together the last nine years of cartoons from Roz Chast. Together these drawings, which originally appeared in the New Yorker, Scientific American, Redbook, and other publications, constitute a spot-on record of our increasingly absurd existence. As the...

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Second Honeymoon: A Novel מאת Joanna Trollope Now that her third and last child has left the nest, Edie Boyd’s life turns suddenly and uncomfortably silent. She begins to yearn for the maternal intimacy that now seems lost to her forever. Be careful what you wish for…Before long, a mother-and-child reunion is in full swing: life a...

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Bone in the Throat מאת Anthony Bourdain A wildly funny, irreverent tale of murder, mayhem, and the mob. When up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagana settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle's restaurant in Manhattan's Little Italy, he unwittingly finds himself a partner in big-time crime. And when the mob decides to use the kitch...

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I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You מאת Bill Green The ultimate fan’s guide to the Coen Brothers’ cult classic, with an introduction by the Dude himself, Jeff Bridges. To some The Big Lebowski is just a movie, to others it’s THE MOVIE. Over the past several years the movie has developed a massive and passionate cu...

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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children מאת Melissa Fay Greene Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country’s children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened ...

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How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion מאת Daniel H. Wilson An inspired and hilarious look at how humans can defeat the inevitable robot rebellion—as revealed by a robotics expert.   How do you spot a robot mim...

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Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same: The Life and Times of Some Chickens מאת Sloane Tanen Chickens show off their human side in Sloane Tanen's irresistible dioramas.With more personality than most people have to spare, New York artist Sloane Tanen's tiny yellow chickens negotiate the tricky modern world, filled with three-headed blind dates, menacing KFCs, playground popularity battles, ...

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'What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?': Jimmy Carter, America's 'Malaise,' and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country מאת Kevin Mattson In 1979, in an effort to right our national malaise, Jimmy Carter delivered a speech that risked his reputation and the future of the Democratic Party, changing the course of American politics for the next twenty-five years. At a critical moment in Jimmy Carter’s presidency...

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Swans and Pistols: Modeling, Motherhood, and Making It in the Me Generation מאת Leon Bing A vivid portrait of a woman finding her place in the glamorous world of Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s—perfect for readers of high-flying memoirs such as Pattie Boyd’s Wonderful Tonight. Fashion icon, Broadway and Hollywood insider, mob mistress, confidante to ...

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Toasts: Over 1,500 of the Best Toasts, Sentiments, Blessings, and Graces מאת Paul Dickson “Helpful to anyone who ever expects to be called on to give a toast.”—Library Journal For nearly thirty years, Paul Dickson’s Toasts has been the perfect reference for any occasion where one needs to raise a glass. Organized by category, it contains sayi...

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Oxford Revisited: A City Revisited מאת Justin Cartwright A sweeping view of the influential city of Oxford, from one of our most talented, thoughtful writers. Oxford is a world-renowned stronghold of knowledge, a lush medieval city dotted with beautiful gardens. But it stands for something deep in our minds—excellence, a kind of ...

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The West Wing מאת Edward Gorey “One of Mr. Gorey’s wordless masterworks.”—New York Times Edward Gorey’s The West Wing is an invitation to the imagination. On each page, a room beckons, inviting the reader to wonder why three shoes lie here abandoned, what is retreating in that mirro...

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Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame מאת Zev Chafets The first book to draw back the veil on the Hall of Fame, combining an insider’s history of the Hall and its players with a consideration of baseball’s place in culture. The National Baseball H all of Fame is the holiest institution in American sports. It’s no...

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Harry, Revised: A Novel מאת Mark Sarvas “Self loathing was never so funny, and Sarvas’s depiction of his downward-spiraling anti-hero is spot-on.”—Los Angeles Magazine In this critically acclaimed novel, Harry Rent finds himself single and lost after the passing of his wife. Although numbed...

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The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World מאת Paul Collins The first popular narrative history of Shakespeare’s First Folio, the world’s most obsessively pursued book. One book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries—a book sold for shillings in the streets of London, whisked to Manhattan for millions, a...

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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators מאת William Stolzenburg A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world’s great predators has upset the delicate balance of the environment, and what their disappearance portends for the future, by an acclaimed science journalist. It wasn’t so long ago that wolves and great cats, monstrous ...

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Brother and Sister: A Novel מאת Joanna Trollope Brought up by the same parents, but born to two different mothers, Nathalie and David have grown up as brother and sister, and share a fierce loyalty. Their decision as adults to try to find their birth mothers is no straightforward matter. It affects, acutely and often painfully, their spouses and ...

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Writing Movies: The Practical Guide to Creating Stellar Screenplays מאת Gotham Writers' Workshop To break into the screenwriting game, you need a screenplay that is not just good, but great. Superlative. Stellar. Writing Movies provides everything you need to know to reach this level. In a single book. And, like the very best teachers, Writing Movies is always pra...

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Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us מאת Alyssa Katz How the homes we live in turned into the monsters that ate our economy and how the United States became a nation obsessed with real estate. Our Lot tells how an entire nation got swept up in real estate mania, and it casts the business story—the collapse of the mortgag...

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Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School מאת Gotham Writers' Workshop Gotham Writers' Workshop has mastered the art of teaching the craft of writing in a way that is practical, accessible, and entertaining. Now the techniques of this renowned school are available in this book. Here you'll find: - The fundamental elements of fiction craft-character, plot, point of vi...

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Academy X: A Novel מאת Andrew Trees Welcome to Academy X, an ethical wonderland in which up is down, right is wrong, and parents and students will stop at nothing (including lying, plagiarizing, and even seduction to name a few) in orderto get into the Ivy League. Caught in the middle is John Spencer, a bumbling but loveable...

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Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America מאת Richard Zoglin What Peter Biskind did for filmmaking, Time magazine critic Richard Zoglin does for comedy in this meticulously researched and hilariously readable account of stand-up comedy in the 1970s. In the rock-and-roll 1970s, a new breed of comic, inspired by the fearless Lenny...

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The Bobby Gold Stories: A Novel מאת Anthony Bourdain Bobby Gold is a lovable criminal. After nearly ten years in prison, he's no sooner out than he's back to work breaking bones for tough guys. His turf: the club scene and restaurant business. It's not that he enjoys the job-Bobby has real heart-but he's good at it, and a guy has to make a living. Thi...

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How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great מאת Karen Karbo How to Hepburn, Karen Karbo’s sleek, contemporary reassessment of one of America’s greatest icons, takes us on a spin through the great Kate’s long, eventful life, with an aim toward seeing what we can glean from the First Lady of Cinema. One part How Proust Can Change Your Life...

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A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All מאת Luke Dempsey “Riotously funny, utterly enthralling…Dempsey’s a hoot.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune It began innocently enough, when two eccentric guests at L uke Dempsey’s weekend home pointed out a small bird flitting through his garden. Dempsey, entranced, found himself f...

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A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America מאת Rowan Jacobsen  “A wide-ranging, thorough, breezily written guide to oysters as cuisine” (Boston Globe), A Geography of Oysters is the complete guide to understanding, serving, and savoring one of North America’s most delicious foods—an Amazon Best of the Year 2007 selection....

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Whatever Makes You Happy: A Novel מאת William Sutcliffe “An excellent comic novel that interweaves the romance, humor, and pathos of three complicated families.”—Publishers Weekly Three suburban moms who have long been friends decide to show up unannounced at the homes of their thirty-something layabout sons. The...

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Hatched!: The Big Push from Pregnancy to Motherhood מאת Sloane Tanen Following the bestselling Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same and Going for the Bronze, Sloane Tanen’s chickens are back, but this time they’ve only got one thing on their minds: babies. From epidurals and stretch marks to diaper rash and day care, never before have the joys, trial...

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A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine מאת Patricia Pearson A bold new view of anxiety from an unerringly smart and funny writer who has suffered from it her whole life. The millions of Americans who silently cope with anxiety at last have a witty, articulate champion in Patricia Pearson, who shows that the anxious are hardly “nervo...

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The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: A Glamorous Story of Power, Profits, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe מאת Lauren Goldstein Crowe A smart, sexy business book for the readers who made Trading Up a bestseller: the tale of a London society girl who built one of the most talked-about shoe brands in the world. The Towering World of Jimmy Choo examines the world’s seemingly insatiable appetite...

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Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods מאת Nina Planck Following the success of Real Food, Nina Planck’s Real Food for Mother and Baby explains why real food is better for woman and child. Nina Planck, one of the great food activists, changed the way we view old-fashioned foods like butter with her groundbreaking ...

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The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began מאת Joan DeJean A critically acclaimed historian of France and French culture identifies the moment in modern history when informality and comfort first became priorities, causing a sudden transformation in the worlds of architecture and interior decoration that would last for centuries.

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Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story מאת Said Hyder Akbar The beautifully and prominently reviewed memoir by an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager, (now a student at Yale), coming of age in post 9/11 Afghanistan. ...

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Black Widow: A Novel מאת E. Duke Vincent The sensuality of Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential meets the swagger of Top Gun in this riveting sequel to Mafia Summer, again based on true events from the author’s life. The extraordinary life of Vinny Vesta continues in this sexy, suspenseful follow-up t...

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The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World מאת Jacques Cousteau Part adventure story, part manifesto, the legendary ocean explorer’s passionate plea for sustaining life on earth.  Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from his childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As th...

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Do-It-Yourself Brain Surgery And Other Implausibly Titled Books מאת Joel Rickett A hilarious illustrated sampling of the most baffling, improbably titled books ever sent to press. The Diagram Prize is awarded by the Bookseller magazine each year to the book with the oddest title. Since its creation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1978, the Diagram ha...

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A Perfect Waiter: A Novel מאת Alain Claude Sulzer A sweeping, powerful novel about a man forced to come to terms with the memory of his lost love. Erneste is the perfect waiter—and his private life seems to embody the qualities he brings to his profession. But inwardly this polite and dignified man is in the grip of a viol...

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A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All מאת Luke Dempsey It was an epiphany: The moment two friends showed Luke Dempsey a small bird flitting around the bushes of his country garden, he fell madly in love. But did he really want to be a birder? Didn’t that mean he’d be forced to eat granola? And wear a man-pouch? Before he knew it, though, h...

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The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have מאת Dennis DiClaudio The good news: you won’t stop laughing. The bad news: Every word is true.Profiling fifty of the most disgusting, painful, life-threatening and otherwise icky diseases, this remarkable book is the perfect treat for the closet temperature-taker, speed-dialing doctor stalker, ...

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How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies מאת Daniel H. Wilson Defend yourself—and your planet—against the onslaught of evil at your door. It goes without saying that robots kill. They hunt, swarm, and fire lasers from their eyes. They even beat humans at chess. So who better to stand with us when the real villains arrive? Movies ins...

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Rebel Yell: A Novel מאת Alice Randall Abel Jones Jr., a civil rights lawyer’s son turned black Washington neo-con, has met an unlikely end: collapsing at the Rebel Yell dinner theater, surrounded by actors in Confederate regalia, with his white second wife at his side. Hope Jones Blackshear, Abel’s first wife and m...

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The Strip: A Novel מאת E. Duke Vincent A thrilling, glamorous Las Vegas story from the former executive producer of Spelling Television. Nick Conti, producer of the successful Las Vegas T V show The $trip, is a busy man. Spending fifteen-hour days on the set and long nights drinking cocktails and cavorting ...

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Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn מאת Hannah Holmes The suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. To some, it’s a green oasis; to others, it’s eco-purgatory. Science writer Hannah Holmes spent a year appraising the lawn through the eyes of the squirrels, crows, worms, and spiders who think of her backyard as their own. Sub...

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Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions מאת Zachary Shore We all make bad decisions. It's part of being human. The resulting mistakes can be valuable, the story goes, because we learn from them. But do we? Historian Zachary Shore says no, not always, and he has a long list of examples to prove his point. From colonialism to globalization, from ge...

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Bling: The Hip-Hop Jewelry Book מאת Reggie Osse A flashy, fun, photographic celebration of living the good life in all its glory—blinged out. ...

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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story מאת Christina Thompson An extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman, that inspires a graceful, revelatory search for understanding about the centuries-old collision of two wildly different cultures.Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collisi...

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Diablerie: A Novel מאת Walter Mosley In this icy noir from a master of American fiction, the darkest secrets are the ones we keep hidden from ourselves. Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday li...

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Resistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France מאת Agnes Humbert “You may think you've read stories like this before, yet hers is special…Résistance was written by a woman of exceptional intelligence and courage. Her perceptions are…acute, honest and humane.”—Newsday Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris dur...

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The Comeback: Seven Stories of Women Who Went from Career to Family and Back Again מאת Emma Gilbey Keller A must-read for all women juggling career and family: an inspiring book that argues that women can have it all—just not all at once. We’ve all heard the chatter in magazines and on television about off-ramps and on-ramps, decreased earning power, increased compet...