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Pub Date 01 Sep 2020
For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han Kang, a whip-smart, darkly funny, and subversive debut novel in which a woman on the verge of major change addresses her doctor in a stream of consciousness narrative.
In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she...
In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she...
The Appointment
Katharina Volckmer
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Lady Romeo
The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity
by Tana Wojczuk
Pub Date 07 Jul 2020
For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve, this illuminating and enthralling biography of 19th-century queer actress Charlotte Cushman portrays her radical lifestyle that riveted New York City and made headlines across America.
From the very beginning, she was a radical. At age nineteen, Charlotte Cushman, America’s beloved actress and the country’s first...
From the very beginning, she was a radical. At age nineteen, Charlotte Cushman, America’s beloved actress and the country’s first...
Lady Romeo
Tana Wojczuk
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Countdown 1945
The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
by Chris Wallace
Pub Date 09 Jun 2020
From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings and events across the globe during the 116 days leading up to the world’s first use of the atomic bomb in wartime—the American attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in...
April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in...
Countdown 1945
Chris Wallace
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Pub Date 01 Jul 2020
Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents fascinating and groundbreaking research that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for America’s future—based on an unprecedented thirty-eight-year study of its changing economic, demographic, and cultural landscapes.
Houston, Texas, long thought of as a traditionally blue-collar black/white southern...
Houston, Texas, long thought of as a traditionally blue-collar black/white southern...
Prophetic City
Stephen L. Klineberg
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Pub Date 28 Jul 2020
Seven years in the making, from critically acclaimed novelist and memoirist David Goodwillie, Kings County is an ambitious, exuberant, and wholly unforgettable tale of two star-crossed lovers in 21st-century Brooklyn, whose lives are torn apart after their deepest secrets come to light.
It’s the early 2000s and like generations of intrepid young hopefuls...
It’s the early 2000s and like generations of intrepid young hopefuls...
Kings County
David Goodwillie
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Pub Date 08 Jul 2020
“Fascinating...[Bamberger] knows the world of professional golf, and the pressures it exacts, like few others.” —The Wall Street Journal
It’s one of the greatest comebacks of all time. And for Tiger Woods—his game, his body, and his life in shambles—getting back to the winner’s circle was only half the story. Here’s the rest of it.
Tiger Woods’s long...
It’s one of the greatest comebacks of all time. And for Tiger Woods—his game, his body, and his life in shambles—getting back to the winner’s circle was only half the story. Here’s the rest of it.
Tiger Woods’s long...
The Second Life of Tiger Woods
Michael Bamberger
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The Socrates Express
In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
by Eric Weiner
Pub Date 01 Oct 2020
The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times.
We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel:...
We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel:...
The Socrates Express
Eric Weiner
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Golf's Holy War
The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science
by Brett Cyrgalis
Pub Date 05 May 2020
Just as Michael Lewis’s Moneyball captured baseball at a technological turning point, Brett Cyrgalis’s Golf’s Holy War takes us inside golf’s clash between its beloved artistic tradition and its analytic future.
The world of golf is at a crossroads. As technological innovations displace traditional philosophies, the golfing community has splintered into...
The world of golf is at a crossroads. As technological innovations displace traditional philosophies, the golfing community has splintered into...
Golf's Holy War
Brett Cyrgalis
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The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer
Everything You Need to Know About Craft, Inspiration, Agents, Editors, Publishing, and the Business of Building a Sustainable Writing Career
by Kevin Larimer; Mary Gannon
Pub Date 07 Apr 2020
The definitive source of information, insight, and advice for creative writers, from the nation’s largest and most trusted organization for writers, Poets & Writers.
For half a century, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their...
For half a century, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their...
The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer
Kevin Larimer; Mary Gannon
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Pub Date 14 Jul 2020
Running with Scissors meets Grey Gardens in this gripping, true riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy family who lost it all and the unforgettable journey of a man coming to terms with his family’s deep flaws and his own long-buried truths.
“Wake up, you filthy beasts!” Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings before school. Startled from their...
“Wake up, you filthy beasts!” Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings before school. Startled from their...
Filthy Beasts
Kirkland Hamill
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Pub Date 10 Mar 2020
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Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and uncovers how...
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Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and uncovers how...
Pharma
Gerald Posner
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Pub Date 28 Jan 2020
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“Few books are as well-matched to the moment of their publication as Ezra Klein’s Why We’re Polarized.” —Dan Hopkins, The Washington Post
“It is likely to become the political book of the year....Powerful [and] intelligent.” —Fareed Zakaria, CNN
“Superbly researched and written..." —Francis...
The Wall Street Journal Bestseller
“Few books are as well-matched to the moment of their publication as Ezra Klein’s Why We’re Polarized.” —Dan Hopkins, The Washington Post
“It is likely to become the political book of the year....Powerful [and] intelligent.” —Fareed Zakaria, CNN
“Superbly researched and written..." —Francis...
Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
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Pub Date 03 Mar 2020
Wall Street Journal Bestseller
New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers.
So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after...
New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers.
So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after...
Upstream
Dan Heath
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Pub Date 25 Feb 2020
From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our turbulent age is defined by dark forces seemingly beyond our control
Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality television politics, the deeper reality is one of drift, repetition, and dead ends. The...
Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality television politics, the deeper reality is one of drift, repetition, and dead ends. The...
The Decadent Society
Ross Douthat
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Pub Date 14 Apr 2020
“Perfect Tunes is an intoxicating blend of music, love, and family from one of the essential writers of the internet generation.” —STEPHANIE DANLER
“Perfect Tunes is a zippy and profound story of love, loss, heredity, and parenthood. I gulped it down, as will all mothers, New Yorkers, music fans, and lovers of quick-moving novels that are both funny and...
“Perfect Tunes is a zippy and profound story of love, loss, heredity, and parenthood. I gulped it down, as will all mothers, New Yorkers, music fans, and lovers of quick-moving novels that are both funny and...
Perfect Tunes
Emily Gould
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Author in Chief
The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
by Craig Fehrman
Pub Date 11 Feb 2020
“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years.” —Thomas Mallon, The Wall Street Journal
“Fun and fascinating…It’s witty, charming, and fantastically learned. I loved it.” —Rick Perlstein
Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America’s presidents as authors—and offers a delightful new...
“Fun and fascinating…It’s witty, charming, and fantastically learned. I loved it.” —Rick Perlstein
Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America’s presidents as authors—and offers a delightful new...
Author in Chief
Craig Fehrman
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SAM
One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
by Jonathan Waldman
Pub Date 07 Jan 2020
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
A true story of innovation, centered on a scrappy team of engineers—far from the Silicon Valley limelight—and their quest to achieve a surprisingly difficult technological feat: building a robot that can lay bricks.
Humans have landed men on the moon, programmed cars to drive themselves, and put the knowledge of our entire civilization in your back pocket...
Humans have landed men on the moon, programmed cars to drive themselves, and put the knowledge of our entire civilization in your back pocket...
SAM
Jonathan Waldman
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Pub Date 05 Nov 2019
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“Jon Dorenbos is a magical person. Life Is Magic shows how we can all choose happiness in the face of overwhelming odds.” —Ellen DeGeneres
An extraordinary and empowering story of resilience, forgiveness, and living a life of purpose in the face of unfathomable obstacles.
You might recognize him as an NFL All-Pro or as an elite magician who made the finals...
An extraordinary and empowering story of resilience, forgiveness, and living a life of purpose in the face of unfathomable obstacles.
You might recognize him as an NFL All-Pro or as an elite magician who made the finals...
Life Is Magic
Jon Dorenbos
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The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live: how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die.
Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant...
Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant...
Civilized to Death
Christopher Ryan
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Pub Date 17 Sep 2019
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist, executive, or simply someone looking for ways to maximize...
From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist, executive, or simply someone looking for ways to maximize...
What It Takes
Stephen A. Schwarzman
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