Nonfiction

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“Nancherla offers a thoughtful and interesting peek behind the scenes at someone with a successful comedy career.

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Genius Noses is a winner for older kids. Five stars out of five.”

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“Without major changes to institutions such as the Electoral College and Supreme Court, the real majority rule will be out of reach.”

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Rory Carroll, a Dublin-based foreign correspondent for the Guardian, has written a nonfiction book that is as adrenaline-fueled and heart-stopping as any piece of fiction one can imagine f

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Winner of the 2021 Casey Award as the Best Baseball Book of the Year with The Baseball 100, Joe Posnanski has followed up with another baseball title.

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Leading Lady is a breezy chronicle of Busch’s life and career, interspersed with anecdotes about his encounters with divas of the stage and screen.”

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“delivers an exciting biography of triumph in spite of the odds and will be an uplifting and inspiring message for a young mind looking for encouragement to follow their dreams and see what

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Everyone knows the music of Elton John. But some may not know that Elton never writes any lyrics.

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“Dannatt and Lyman tell an engaging history of the British army, 1918 to 1940, that offers lessons in ‘the failure of both political and military leadership and disfunctionality between the

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“This book is a compelling plea for earth’s inhabitants to put on their science hats and come together to make a better life for everyone.”

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“So many trained poems of reason in one volume create a real treasure.”

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"Anyone interested in culture, history, and simply a rollicking good story, will find much to savor in these pages."

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“Goldsworthy fills a little-known but important gap in the history of the Western World with a history of the lands of Armenia, Iraq, and Syria that, as part of the Parthian Empire, became

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Annie Ernaux, the 2022 Nobel Prize-winning writer, was a single woman in her fifties when she began an affair with a university student 30 years her junior who had written asking to meet her.

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“offers readers a deeply affecting, lyrical and often profound journey into the experience of love and loss.”

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more than just ingredients, it is an accumulation of knowledge, sourcing, collaboration, farms, orchards, fields, and artistry.”

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“a worthy part of any Beatles’ fans collection.”

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“A fussy old queen asks the ladies whom he’s invited to tea and elderberry wine, ‘What have I got to hide?’ to which Miss Marple in her delicious English ignorance says, ‘I’m sure I wouldn’

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opens the door to what American cookery is—the coming together of cultures, identities, flavors, and tastes that celebrate what is probably one of the most diverse cuisine

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“. . . an introduction to the private and personal Churchill that often gets lost in the larger works of history and biography.”

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“Compared to other art history texts on the market, The Art Museum is very readable.”

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Fersko avoids polemics or self-righteous posturing, keeping a smart focus on practical realities.

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Places We Left Behind is almost a choose your own adventure scenario: While living in a foreign country, you meet someone who qualifies as the man of your dreams, except for two potential

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“Kissinger’s first book on family, mental illness, and recovery catapults her into the pantheon of modern, nonfiction writers who dare to feel, think, and unabashedly portray the agony of m

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