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Baseless
My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
by Nicholson Baker
Pub Date 21 Jul 2020
A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act – FOIA – and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writers
Ten years into researching a book about the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the...
Ten years into researching a book about the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the...
Baseless
Nicholson Baker
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Coffeeland
One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
by Augustine Sedgewick
Pub Date 07 Apr 2020
The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world
Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world--one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world's most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's ...
Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world--one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world's most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's ...
Coffeeland
Augustine Sedgewick
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Pub Date 18 Aug 2020
The debut novel from an autistic writer, an extraordinary story of a fiercely original young woman whose radical self-acceptance illuminates a new way of being in the world, and opens up a whole new realm of understanding and connection
As a full moon rises over Melbourne, Australia, a young autistic woman gets ready for a party. What appears to be the start...
As a full moon rises over Melbourne, Australia, a young autistic woman gets ready for a party. What appears to be the start...
A Room Called Earth
Madeleine Ryan
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Pub Date 04 Aug 2020
Renowned southern pastry chef Lisa Donovan's memoir of cooking, survival, and the incredible power in reclaiming the stories of women
Noted chef and James Beard Award-winning essayist Lisa Donovan helped establish some of the South's most important kitchens, and her pastry work is at the forefront of a resurgence in traditional desserts. Yet Donovan...
Noted chef and James Beard Award-winning essayist Lisa Donovan helped establish some of the South's most important kitchens, and her pastry work is at the forefront of a resurgence in traditional desserts. Yet Donovan...
Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger
Lisa Donovan
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Losers
Dispatches from the Other Side of the Scoreboard
by Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas
Pub Date 18 Aug 2020
“It's easy to do anything in victory. It’s in defeat that a man reveals himself.” —Floyd Patterson
Twenty-two notable writers—including Bob Sullivan, Abby Ellin, Mike Pesca, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa Hall, and Gay Talese—examine the untold stories of the losers, and in doing so reveal something raw and significant about what it means to be human
The...
Twenty-two notable writers—including Bob Sullivan, Abby Ellin, Mike Pesca, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa Hall, and Gay Talese—examine the untold stories of the losers, and in doing so reveal something raw and significant about what it means to be human
The...
Losers
Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas
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The Biggest Bluff
How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
by Maria Konnikova
Pub Date 23 Jun 2020
How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game
It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules...
It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules...
The Biggest Bluff
Maria Konnikova
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Pub Date 07 Jul 2020
An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York City apartment building, as tensions between the building's super and his grown-up daughter spark a crisis that will, by day's end, change everything.
Ruby has a strange relationship to privilege. She grew up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper...
Ruby has a strange relationship to privilege. She grew up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper...
The Party Upstairs
Lee Conell
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Dark Mirror
Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
by Barton Gellman
Pub Date 19 May 2020
From the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Angler, the definitive master narrative of Edward Snowden and the modern surveillance state, based on unique access to Snowden and groundbreaking reportage around the world.
Edward Snowden touched off a global debate in 2013 when he gave Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras and...
Edward Snowden touched off a global debate in 2013 when he gave Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras and...
Dark Mirror
Barton Gellman
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Thinking Inside the Box
Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them
by Adrienne Raphel
Pub Date 17 Mar 2020
A delightful, erudite, and immersive exploration of the crossword puzzle and its fascinating history by a brilliant young writer
Almost as soon as it appeared, the crossword puzzle had already become indispensable to our lives. Invented practically by accident in 1913, when a newspaper editor at the New York World was casting around for something to fill...
Almost as soon as it appeared, the crossword puzzle had already become indispensable to our lives. Invented practically by accident in 1913, when a newspaper editor at the New York World was casting around for something to fill...
Thinking Inside the Box
Adrienne Raphel
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Burning Down the House
Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
by Julian E. Zelizer
Pub Date 14 Sep 2020
The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era of brutal partisan warfare
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump “is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party.” In Burning Down the House...
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump “is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party.” In Burning Down the House...
Burning Down the House
Julian E. Zelizer
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Fashionopolis
The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
by Dana Thomas
Pub Date 03 Sep 2019
An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it
What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today, the clothing industry churns out 80 billion garments a...
What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today, the clothing industry churns out 80 billion garments a...
Fashionopolis
Dana Thomas
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Pub Date 11 Aug 2020
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by: The Washington Post, Vogue, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, New York Magazine, Paste Magazine, LitHub, E! News Online, and many more
From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds...
From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds...
Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh
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Pub Date 10 Mar 2020
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“An undisputed literary event.” — NPR
A new poetry collection of uncanny grace and moral force from one of our country's most celebrated poets
Over four decades, Carolyn Forché's visionary work has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, inquiries, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where...
A new poetry collection of uncanny grace and moral force from one of our country's most celebrated poets
Over four decades, Carolyn Forché's visionary work has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, inquiries, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where...
In the Lateness of the World
Carolyn Forché
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
by James Shapiro
Pub Date 10 Mar 2020
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From leading scholar James Shapiro, a timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land, from Revolutionary times to the present day
The plays of William Shakespeare are rare common ground in the United States. They are read at school by almost every student, staged in theaters across the land, and long valued by conservatives and...
The plays of William Shakespeare are rare common ground in the United States. They are read at school by almost every student, staged in theaters across the land, and long valued by conservatives and...
Shakespeare in a Divided America
James Shapiro
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The Opposite of Woe
My Life in Beer and Politics
by John Hickenlooper; Maximillian Potter
Pub Date 24 May 2016
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The maverick (and very funny) governor of Colorado tells his story, from early loss to college on the ten-year plan, to remarkable business and political success
In just over a decade, John Hickenlooper has gone from brew pub entrepreneur to governor of Colorado, hailed by political analysts and media alike as a solid contender to be the next vice...
In just over a decade, John Hickenlooper has gone from brew pub entrepreneur to governor of Colorado, hailed by political analysts and media alike as a solid contender to be the next vice...
The Opposite of Woe
John Hickenlooper; Maximillian Potter
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Directorate S
The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Steve Coll
Pub Date 06 Feb 2018
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Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11
Prior to 9/11...
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11
Prior to 9/11...
Directorate S
Steve Coll
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The Last Pass
Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End
by Gary M. Pomerantz
Pub Date 23 Oct 2018
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The New York Times Bestseller
Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret
About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment. But he has one last piece...
Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret
About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment. But he has one last piece...
The Last Pass
Gary M. Pomerantz
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Aristotle's Way
How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
by Edith Hall
Pub Date 15 Jan 2019
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From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful lives
Aristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more clearly than anyone since. According to Aristotle, happiness is...
Aristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more clearly than anyone since. According to Aristotle, happiness is...
Aristotle's Way
Edith Hall
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The Last Ocean
A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting
by Nicci Gerrard
Pub Date 13 Aug 2019
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From the award-winning journalist and author, a lyrical, raw and humane investigation of dementia that explores both the journeys of the people who live with the condition and those of their loved ones
After a diagnosis of dementia, Nicci Gerrard’s father, John, continued to live life on his own terms, alongside the disease. But when an isolating hospital...
After a diagnosis of dementia, Nicci Gerrard’s father, John, continued to live life on his own terms, alongside the disease. But when an isolating hospital...
The Last Ocean
Nicci Gerrard
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A Very Stable Genius
Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
by Philip Rucker; Carol Leonnig
Pub Date 21 Jan 2020
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The instant #1 bestseller.
“This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date."
- Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider...
“This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date."
- Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider...
A Very Stable Genius
Philip Rucker; Carol Leonnig
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The Power of Bad
How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
by John Tierney; Roy F. Baumeister
Pub Date 31 Dec 2019
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"The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read."—Martin E. P. Seligman, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at that University of Pennsylvania and author of Learned Optimism
Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when it’s mixed with lavish praise? Because our brains are wired to focus on the...
Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when it’s mixed with lavish praise? Because our brains are wired to focus on the...
The Power of Bad
John Tierney; Roy F. Baumeister
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Pub Date 12 Nov 2019
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The #1 New York Times bestseller by Time's 2019 Person of the Year
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations
In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the...
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations
In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the...
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg
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The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers
The story of philosophy is the story of who we are and why. An epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents, it explores some of the most creative minds in history. But not since the...
The story of philosophy is the story of who we are and why. An epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents, it explores some of the most creative minds in history. But not since the...
The History of Philosophy
A. C. Grayling
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Pub Date 29 Oct 2019
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Looking back at the last thirty-five years of Vanity Fair stories on women, by women, with an introduction by the magazine’s editor in chief, Radhika Jones
Gail Sheehy on Hillary Clinton. Ingrid Sischy on Nicole Kidman. Jacqueline Woodson on Lena Waithe. Leslie Bennetts on Michelle Obama. And two Maureens (Orth and Dowd) on two Tinas (Turner and Fey). Vanity...
Gail Sheehy on Hillary Clinton. Ingrid Sischy on Nicole Kidman. Jacqueline Woodson on Lena Waithe. Leslie Bennetts on Michelle Obama. And two Maureens (Orth and Dowd) on two Tinas (Turner and Fey). Vanity...
Vanity Fair's Women on Women
Radhika Jones and David Friend
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In Montparnasse
The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí
by Sue Roe
Pub Date 20 Aug 2019
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"Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." - The Times (UK)
As she did for the Modernists In Montmartre, noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe now tells the story of the Surrealists in Montparnasse.
In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and...
As she did for the Modernists In Montmartre, noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe now tells the story of the Surrealists in Montparnasse.
In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and...
In Montparnasse
Sue Roe
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From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived
Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the ghost." Then he lit his pipe and stroked his dog Harry’s head...
Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the ghost." Then he lit his pipe and stroked his dog Harry’s head...
Travel Light, Move Fast
Alexandra Fuller
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Pub Date 24 Oct 2017
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017
From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent...
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017
From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent...
Friends Divided
Gordon S. Wood
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PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press
Penguin Press was founded in 2003 by Ann Godoff and launched its debut list in the Winter of 2004. Dedicated to publishing quality nonfiction and literary fiction, it has published numerous New York Times and national bestsellers, including four Pulitzer Prize winners: Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars, in 2005 for General Nonfiction; Liaquat Ahamed’s Lords of Finance, in 2010 for History; Ron Chernow’s Washington, in 2011 for Biography; and John Lewis Gaddis’s George F. Kennan, in 2012 for Biography.
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