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“These pages feel like having a conversation with a close friend, someone who is interesting and funny and deeply honest.”

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“exfoliates the surface layers to discover the hidden elements the poet—with a deft knowing—reveals inside this masterful collection.”

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“This well-chosen and written series of essays brings new light to this often overlooked campaign and shows that this was not a side-show of the Eastern Theater, but a critical battle in it

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First and foremost, Gothic Modern is a collection of essays intended to accompany a museum exhibition held at the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland and The National Museum in Oslo, N

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“Through it all, Deutsch is relentlessly honest about her experience.”

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“This book is a work of art, a tour de force of text and graphics that belongs in the personal library of everyone who values the moving image.”

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“‘As Homo narrans, we aren’t just beings who are being told stories, but beings who tell and retell stories ourselves.’”

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On Memorial Day in 2019, 35 years into a happy marriage, novelist Geraldine Brooks’ beloved husband Tony Horwitz drops dead on a Washington D.C. street.

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“Leslie does a fantastic job here of writing in a compelling way . . .”

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An engrossing book that inspires the reader to consider a life of adventure, history, science, or, in the case of some of the characters in this story, combinatio

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The Portable Feminist Reader is far from portable at nearly 600 pages, and is divided into nine sections.

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“Professor Ferling weaves the political, military, social, and economic aspects of the war seamlessly together into a highly readable narrative . . .”

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The first six months after Pearl Harbor were a very dismal time for America. Facing nothing but constant defeat at the hands of the Japanese Empire, America desperately needed heroes.

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Freedom at Dawn shines in its ability to introduce an important, non-white historical figure and his courageous actions.”

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“Kingwell’s book is not meant to provide readers with easy answers for mending our nation’s fractured politics.”

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Conley’s new science of nature and nurture suggests that humanity is on the verge of a brave new world.”

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For several decades, historians plumbing the depths of Native American history have enriched our understanding of their culture, lives, and travails.  

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“a story of a brutal crime, a broken justice system, and after a long 15 years, redemption in a frigid Alaska town.

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As both muse and career manager of her husband Salvador, Gala Dalí was a central figure in one of the most interesting and provocative art movements of the 20th century, surrealism.

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“For art lovers and lovers of fine books, Monet: The Bigger Picture is an essential purchase. The work‘s  presentation and construction is a high art in itself.“

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On April 1, 2025, the new memoir by the lauded biographer Blake Bailey hits the bookstores.

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"Readers will find much to spark their curiosity."

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The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking by Leor Zmigrod is a book that must go to the top of your ‘to be read’ pile.

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“‘There is a lineage to the American hard right of today and to understand it, we need to understand its roots in the Red Scare.’” 

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