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Follow Me to Ground

A Novel

by Sue Rainsford

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Pub Date 21 Jan 2020

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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 village where they help sick locals—or “Cures”—by cracking open their...

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The Math of Life and Death

7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives

by Kit Yates

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Pub Date 07 Jan 2020

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A brilliant and entertaining mathematician illuminates seven mathematical principles that shape our lives.

“Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. Ignorance may bring tragedy or farce. This is an exquisitely interesting book. It’s a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little math, it’s delightfully...

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Disney's Land

Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

by Richard Snow

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Pub Date 03 Dec 2019

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A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park that became at once the greatest piece of urban design in the United States and the world's most prosperous tourist attraction, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.

When Walt Disney imagined a theme park where “his...

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Alice Adams

Portrait of a Writer

by Carol Sklenicka

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Pub Date 03 Dec 2019

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From the acclaimed author of Raymond Carver, the first full-scale popular biography of Alice Adams (1926-1999), whose fiction chronicled the sexual revolution and women’s lives from the 1950s to the 1990s—in real time.

“Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams,” a New York Times critic said of the acclaimed author of over a hundred...

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Checkpoint Charlie

The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth

by Iain MacGregor

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Pub Date 05 Nov 2019

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A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking 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.

East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s, an eleven-foot-high barrier that consisted of seventy-nine...

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Superior Women

A Novel

by Alice Adams

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Pub Date 03 Dec 2019

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A timeless coming-of-age novel about five young women who meet at exclusive Radcliffe College and together grow to maturity over four decades—through intrigues, ambitions, affairs, and marriages—from World War II to the 1980s.

Radcliffe, 1943. Five young women, newly admitted to college, meet for the first time. Megan, Janet, Lavinia, Peg, and Cathy seem to...

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7 Secrets to Investing Like Warren Buffett

by Mary Buffett; Sean Seah

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Pub Date 22 Oct 2019

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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...

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Out of Darkness, Shining Light

A Novel

by Petina Gappah

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Pub Date 10 Sep 2019

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“Engrossing, beautiful, and deeply imaginative, Out of Darkness, Shining Light is a novel that lends voice to those who appeared only as footnotes in history, yet whose final, brave act of loyalty and respect changed the course of it. An incredible and important book by a masterful writer.” —Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing

“This is how we carried out of...

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Five Days Gone

The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

by Laura Cumming

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Pub Date 27 Aug 2019

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Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.

In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming’s mother was three...

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The Best American Poetry 2019

by David Lehman; Major Jackson

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Pub Date 10 Sep 2019

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The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry—“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets)—now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.

Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017...

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Good Husbandry

A Memoir

by Kristin Kimball

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Pub Date 15 Oct 2019

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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...

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More from Less

The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next

by Andrew McAfee

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Pub Date 08 Oct 2019

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From the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age, a compelling argument—masterfully researched and brilliantly articulated—that we have at last learned how to increase human prosperity while treading more lightly on our planet.

Throughout history, the only way for humanity to grow was by degrading the Earth: chopping down forests...

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Darkness at Noon

A Novel

by Arthur Koestler

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Pub Date 17 Sep 2019

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The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon—the haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule—is now restored and in a completely new translation.

Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm bring us a brilliant novel, a remarkable discovery, and a new translation of...

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Hymns of the Republic

The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War

by S. C. Gwynne

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Pub Date 29 Oct 2019

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From the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War.

The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that era’s most compelling narratives, defining the nation and one of history’s great turning points...

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Our Dogs, Ourselves

The Story of a Singular Bond

by Alexandra Horowitz

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Pub Date 03 Sep 2019

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From Alexandra Horowitz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, an eye-opening, informative, and wholly entertaining examination and celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike.

We keep dogs and are kept by them. We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. We buy them sweaters, toys...

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The Tyranny of Virtue

Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies

by Robert Boyers

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Pub Date 24 Sep 2019

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From public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, a thought-provoking volume of nine essays that elegantly and fiercely addresses recent developments in American culture and argues for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition.

Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer...

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Beyond the Known

How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

by Andrew Rader

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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...

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She Was Like That

New and Selected Stories

by Kate Walbert

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Pub Date 01 Oct 2019

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From Kate Walbert, the highly acclaimed, National Book Award nominee, comes a dazzling, career-spanning collection of new and selected stories.

In these twelve deft, acutely funny and often heartbreaking stories, Kate Walbert delves into the hearts and minds of women. Her characters are searchers, uneasy in one way or another. They yearn for connection...

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It's How We Play the Game

Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference.

by Ed Stack

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Pub Date 08 Oct 2019

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For readers of Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog and Howard Schultz’s Onward, an inspiring memoir from the CEO of DICK’s Sporting Goods about building a multibillion dollar business, coming to the defense of embattled youth sports programs, and taking a principled—and highly controversial—stand against the types of guns that are too often used in mass shootings and...


Follow Me to Ground 21 Jan 2020 General Fiction (Adult)	The Math of Life and Death 07 Jan 2020 Professional & Technical	Disney's Land 03 Dec 2019 Business & Investing	Alice Adams 03 Dec 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Checkpoint Charlie 05 Nov 2019 History

Superior Women 03 Dec 2019 Women's Fiction	7 Secrets to Investing Like Warren Buffett 22 Oct 2019 Business & Investing	Out of Darkness, Shining Light 10 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Five Days Gone 27 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	The Best American Poetry 2019 10 Sep 2019 Poetry

Good Husbandry 15 Oct 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	More from Less 08 Oct 2019 Business & Investing	Darkness at Noon 17 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Hymns of the Republic 29 Oct 2019 History	Our Dogs, Ourselves 03 Sep 2019 Home & Garden

The Tyranny of Virtue 24 Sep 2019 Nonfiction (Adult)	Beyond the Known 12 Nov 2019 History	She Was Like That 01 Oct 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	It's How We Play the Game 08 Oct 2019 Biographies & Memoirs


Follow Me to Ground 21 Jan 2020 General Fiction (Adult)	The Math of Life and Death 07 Jan 2020 Professional & Technical	Disney's Land 03 Dec 2019 Business & Investing	Alice Adams 03 Dec 2019 Biographies & Memoirs

Checkpoint Charlie 05 Nov 2019 History	Superior Women 03 Dec 2019 Women's Fiction	7 Secrets to Investing Like Warren Buffett 22 Oct 2019 Business & Investing	Out of Darkness, Shining Light 10 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Five Days Gone 27 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	The Best American Poetry 2019 10 Sep 2019 Poetry	Good Husbandry 15 Oct 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	More from Less 08 Oct 2019 Business & Investing

Darkness at Noon 17 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Hymns of the Republic 29 Oct 2019 History	Our Dogs, Ourselves 03 Sep 2019 Home & Garden	The Tyranny of Virtue 24 Sep 2019 Nonfiction (Adult)

Beyond the Known 12 Nov 2019 History	She Was Like That 01 Oct 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	It's How We Play the Game 08 Oct 2019 Biographies & Memoirs


Follow Me to Ground 21 Jan 2020 General Fiction (Adult)	The Math of Life and Death 07 Jan 2020 Professional & Technical

Disney's Land 03 Dec 2019 Business & Investing	Alice Adams 03 Dec 2019 Biographies & Memoirs

Checkpoint Charlie 05 Nov 2019 History	Superior Women 03 Dec 2019 Women's Fiction

7 Secrets to Investing Like Warren Buffett 22 Oct 2019 Business & Investing	Out of Darkness, Shining Light 10 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Five Days Gone 27 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	The Best American Poetry 2019 10 Sep 2019 Poetry

Good Husbandry 15 Oct 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	More from Less 08 Oct 2019 Business & Investing

Darkness at Noon 17 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Hymns of the Republic 29 Oct 2019 History

Our Dogs, Ourselves 03 Sep 2019 Home & Garden	The Tyranny of Virtue 24 Sep 2019 Nonfiction (Adult)

Beyond the Known 12 Nov 2019 History	She Was Like That 01 Oct 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

It's How We Play the Game 08 Oct 2019 Biographies & Memoirs

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