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The Turnaway Study
Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion
by Diana Greene Foster
Pub Date 02 Jun 2020
“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy." —Gloria Steinem
“Dr. Diana Greene Foster brings what is too often missing from the public debate around abortion: science, data, and the real-life experiences of people from diverse...
“Dr. Diana Greene Foster brings what is too often missing from the public debate around abortion: science, data, and the real-life experiences of people from diverse...
The Turnaway Study
Diana Greene Foster
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Pub Date 19 May 2020
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to run the world’s most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office.
Only eleven men and one woman are alive today who have made the...
Only eleven men and one woman are alive today who have made the...
The Spymasters
Chris Whipple
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Pub Date 02 Jun 2020
For fans of Mary Beth Keane and Jennifer Egan, this powerful, moving multigenerational saga from National Book Award finalist Martha McPhee—ten years in the making—explores one family’s story against the sweep of 20th century American history.
Drawn from the author’s own family history, An Elegant Woman is a story of discovery and reinvention, following four...
Drawn from the author’s own family history, An Elegant Woman is a story of discovery and reinvention, following four...
An Elegant Woman
Martha McPhee
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Pub Date 04 Aug 2020
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal...
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal...
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
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Show Them You're Good
A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College
by Jeff Hobbs
Pub Date 16 Jun 2020
The bestselling, critically acclaimed, award-winning author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace presents a brilliant and transcendent work that closely follows four Los Angeles high school boys as they apply to college.
Four teenage boys are high school seniors at two very different schools within the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school...
Four teenage boys are high school seniors at two very different schools within the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school...
Show Them You're Good
Jeff Hobbs
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Pub Date 05 May 2020
The heartbreaking, never-before-told story of Hollywood icon Natalie Wood’s glamorous life, sudden death, and lasting legacy, written by her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner.
More Than Love is a memoir of loss, grief, and coming-of-age by a daughter of Hollywood royalty. Natasha Gregson Wagner’s mother, Natalie Wood, was a child actress who became a...
More Than Love is a memoir of loss, grief, and coming-of-age by a daughter of Hollywood royalty. Natasha Gregson Wagner’s mother, Natalie Wood, was a child actress who became a...
More Than Love
Natasha Gregson Wagner
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Bezonomics
How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It
by Brian Dumaine
Pub Date 05 May 2020
An in-depth, revelatory, and unbiased look at Amazon’s world-dominating business model, the current competitors either imitating or trying to outfox Amazon, and the ways Bezonomics is shaping the life of every American consumer—from an award-winning Fortune magazine writer.
Like Henry Ford, Sam Walton, or Steve Jobs in the early years of Ford, Walmart, and...
Like Henry Ford, Sam Walton, or Steve Jobs in the early years of Ford, Walmart, and...
Bezonomics
Brian Dumaine
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Pub Date 09 Jun 2020
From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology.
We know the universe had a beginning. With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing...
We know the universe had a beginning. With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing...
The End of Everything
Katie Mack
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Pub Date 04 Aug 2020
A heartwarming, poignant, and charming debut novel for fans of Nick Hornby and The Rosie Project, about a father and son overcoming their grief in surprisingly inventive ways.
Danny’s life is falling apart. He’s become a single father to eleven-year-old Will—who hasn’t spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash a year earlier—and Danny has just been...
Danny’s life is falling apart. He’s become a single father to eleven-year-old Will—who hasn’t spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash a year earlier—and Danny has just been...
Bear Necessity
James Gould-Bourn
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Pub Date 14 Jul 2020
A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.
The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to...
The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to...
Stranger in the Shogun's City
Amy Stanley
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Promised Land
How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968
by David Stebenne
Pub Date 23 Jun 2020
A timely work of groundbreaking history explains how the American middle class ballooned at mid-century until it dominated the nation, showing who benefited and what brought the expansion to an end.
In Promised Land, David Stebenne examines the extraordinary revival of the middle class in mid-twentieth century America and how it drastically changed the...
In Promised Land, David Stebenne examines the extraordinary revival of the middle class in mid-twentieth century America and how it drastically changed the...
Promised Land
David Stebenne
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Women in the Kitchen
Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today
by Anne Willan
Pub Date 11 Aug 2020
Culinary historian Anne Willan traces the origins of American cooking through profiles of twelve essential women cookbook writers—from Hannah Woolley in the mid-1600s to Fannie Farmer, Julia Child, and Alice Waters—highlighting their key historical contributions and most representative recipes.
Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook...
Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook...
Women in the Kitchen
Anne Willan
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Pub Date 23 Jun 2020
“[An] utterly enthralling piece of music, sharp and soulful and ferociously insightful all at once…This singular, spellbinding novel is…an exploration of identity itself.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering and Make It Scream, Make It Burn
“Wasserman has a unique gift for describing the turbulent intersection of love and need, hinting that the...
“Wasserman has a unique gift for describing the turbulent intersection of love and need, hinting that the...
Mother Daughter Widow Wife
Robin Wasserman
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Pub Date 26 May 2020
A sweeping, definitive biography of Samuel Colt—the inventor of the legendary Colt revolver (a.k.a. six-shooter)—which changed the US forever, triggering the industrial revolution and the settlement of the American West.
Patented in 1836, the Colt pistol with its revolving cylinder was the first practical firearm that could shoot more than one bullet without...
Patented in 1836, the Colt pistol with its revolving cylinder was the first practical firearm that could shoot more than one bullet without...
Revolver
Jim Rasenberger
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Pub Date 14 Apr 2020
From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world’s great societies for the first time at the end of the first millennium.
People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major...
People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major...
The Year 1000
Valerie Hansen
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Pub Date 21 Apr 2020
“Kept Animals is a darkly beautiful book, tender yet powerful, an exquisite exploration of hurt and desire, the why of wanting, taking, and giving. And Kate Milliken knows her stuff when it comes to horses.” —Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses
“In this rugged and ravishing debut, a tragic car accident upends the lives of...
“In this rugged and ravishing debut, a tragic car accident upends the lives of...
Kept Animals
Kate Milliken
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Those Who Forget
My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning
by Geraldine Schwarz
Pub Date 22 Sep 2020
Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz’s riveting account of her German and French grandparents’ lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe’s post-war reckoning with fascism, and an urgent appeal to remember as a defense against today’s rise of far-right nationalism.
During World War...
During World War...
Those Who Forget
Geraldine Schwarz
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Death in Mud Lick
A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
by Eric Eyre
Pub Date 31 Mar 2020
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter from the smallest newspaper ever to win the prize in the investigative reporting category, an urgent, riveting, and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns, decimating communities.
Death in Mud Lick is the story of a pharmacy in Kermit, West...
Death in Mud Lick is the story of a pharmacy in Kermit, West...
Death in Mud Lick
Eric Eyre
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Pub Date 04 Feb 2020
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In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia...
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia...
When Time Stopped
Ariana Neumann
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Pub Date 08 Jan 2019
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ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
“I practically snorted this book, stayed up all night with it. Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve’s singular irresistible glitz.” —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
“The Eve Babitz book I’ve been waiting for. What emerges isn’t just a portrait of a writer, but also of Los Angeles: sprawling, melancholic, and...
“I practically snorted this book, stayed up all night with it. Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve’s singular irresistible glitz.” —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
“The Eve Babitz book I’ve been waiting for. What emerges isn’t just a portrait of a writer, but also of Los Angeles: sprawling, melancholic, and...
Hollywood's Eve
Lili Anolik
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The Pine Tar Game
The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy
by Filip Bondy
Pub Date 21 Jul 2015
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An award-winning veteran sportswriter who personally covered the Pine Tar Game looks back and explores one of the wackiest events in baseball history.
On July 24, 1983, during the finale of a heated four-game series between the dynastic New York Yankees and small-town Kansas City Royals, umpires nullified a go-ahead home run based on an obscure rule, when...
The Pine Tar Game
Filip Bondy
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A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and thereby risk deportation.
Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied...
Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied...
Amnesty
Aravind Adiga
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Palm Beach Post, BuzzFeed, and LitHub’s Most Anticipated of 2020
A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal—one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency.
Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a...
A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal—one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency.
Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a...
Follow Me to Ground
Sue Rainsford
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Politics Is for Power
How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change
by Eitan Hersh
Pub Date 14 Jan 2020
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A brilliant condemnation of political hobbyism—treating politics like entertainment—and a call to arms for well-meaning, well-informed citizens who consume political news, but do not take political action.
Who is to blame for our broken politics? The uncomfortable answer to this question starts with ordinary citizens with good intentions. We vote (sometimes)...
Who is to blame for our broken politics? The uncomfortable answer to this question starts with ordinary citizens with good intentions. We vote (sometimes)...
Politics Is for Power
Eitan Hersh
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The timeless coming-of-age novel about five young women who meet at Radcliffe College and together grow to maturity—through intrigues, ambitions, affairs, and marriages—from World War II to the 1980s.
Lavinia, Peg, and Cathy seem to have little in common save for their freshman status. None of them could know that their destinies are about to inextricably...
Lavinia, Peg, and Cathy seem to have little in common save for their freshman status. None of them could know that their destinies are about to inextricably...
Superior Women
Alice Adams
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Disney's Land
Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
by Richard Snow
Pub Date 03 Dec 2019
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A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.
One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and...
One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and...
Disney's Land
Richard Snow
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“Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams,” a New York Times critic said of the prolific short-story writer and bestselling novelist whose dozens of published stories and eleven novels illuminate the American Century.
Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and came of age during World...
Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and came of age during World...
Alice Adams
Carol Sklenicka
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Pub Date 03 Dec 2019
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This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal).
In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well...
In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well...
Genius & Anxiety
Norman Lebrecht
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Beyond the Known
How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
by Andrew Rader
Pub Date 12 Nov 2019
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From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader—an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager—an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans’ insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilization’s earliest days to current planning for interstellar travel.
For the first time in...
For the first time in...
Beyond the Known
Andrew Rader
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In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving—journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning.
In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler Ross first identified the stages of dying in her transformative book On Death and Dying. Decades later, she and...
In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler Ross first identified the stages of dying in her transformative book On Death and Dying. Decades later, she and...
Finding Meaning
David Kessler
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Checkpoint Charlie
The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth
by Iain MacGregor
Pub Date 05 Nov 2019
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A “constantly captivating…well-researched and often moving” (The Wall Street Journal) history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War.
In the early 1960s, East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall, an...
In the early 1960s, East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall, an...
Checkpoint Charlie
Iain MacGregor
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A clear, simple, and complete guide for beginning investors from bestselling author Mary Buffett and Sean Seah that explains Warren Buffett’s techniques of Value Investing and his proven strategies to ensure long-term success.
For twelve years, Mary Buffett was part of the Buffett inner circle. During that time, she studied Warren’s investment strategies and...
For twelve years, Mary Buffett was part of the Buffett inner circle. During that time, she studied Warren’s investment strategies and...
7 Secrets to Investing Like Warren Buffett
Mary Buffett; Sean Seah
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From the celebrated author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, a “beguiling memoir about the simple life” (Elle), Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm—a 500-acre farm that produces a full diet for a community of 250 people.
The Dirty Life chronicled Kimball’s move from New York City to 500...
The Dirty Life chronicled Kimball’s move from New York City to 500...
Good Husbandry
Kristin Kimball
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Scribner
Founded by Charles Scribner in 1846, Scribner is the home of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many more. In 1978, Scribner acquired Atheneum, and in 1984 merged with Macmillan. Today, under publisher Nan Graham, Scribner has a distinguished list of writers that includes Jesmyn Ward, Jennifer Egan, Annie Proulx, Anthony Doerr, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jeannette Walls, and Don DeLillo. www.scribnerbooks.com
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