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“an eye-opening book enriched by facts, figures, and heartbreaking stories, the addiction parallel of Professor Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies.”

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Ron Padgett is a writer with a consummate sense of the fantastical as it intersects the quotidian.

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“What I feel, I cannot unfeel. What I know I cannot unknow. I can no longer escape my culpability, the mess that I have made. My crime is all I see. My crime is all there is.”

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Mesmerizing and at times mesmerizingly confusing, Harold Bloom’s new opus, The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, is (but only fractionally) this: A mix of the tend

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“You don’t need to be a hunter or even a man to enjoy this exceptional memoir.”

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“Another perfect volume in DC’s Celebration series.”

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Baseball historians generally agree on the mainstays of the baseball morality tale. They know that Abner Doubleday had nothing to do with the invention of the game.

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“Parks’ essays examine the choice international writers face.

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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is a timely book for the discussion in current culture about the decision on not having kids.

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What is immediately apparent about this book is that it bears an amazing resemblance to an Italian magazine by the name of Collezione.

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“a challenging book that covers a wide span of scientific, social, and public policy issues. . . . an excellent resource . . .”

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Young children love asking “how” and “why” questions almost as much as they love flipping through lively and colorful picture books.

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“Solitude has; loneliness wants. It isn’t about being alone, but about missing significant connections that feed our need to belong.”

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Creative Haven Whimsical Gardens Coloring Book by Alexandra Cowell rings in the gentler seasons of the year.

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“a collection of tightly written and deeply moving testaments to the brevity of life and the existential imperative to live it well.”

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The Jottery: Thought Experiments for Everyday Philosophers and Part-Time Geniuses is a clever book for creative or would-be creative people.

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In ancient times, the sage Patanjali set forth the Yoga Sutras, an eight-fold approach for living which encompasses ethics in society, personal ethics, bodily posture, breath control, sense withdra

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Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, who quickly becomes “Madam Ambassador,” starts her memoir with a bang. Shortly after starting her post as the first Greek-American to serve as a U.S.

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“Seyler conveys excitement and adventure from a lost story of a pioneer explorer of the Middle East.”

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As the dust of World War II appears in the rearview mirror of our memories, it takes a special book to explain the inner workings of the Washington, DC, establishment of the late 1930s/early 1940s

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Nathaniel Mackey is a distinguished American writer.

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In Spinster by Kate Bolick, we are taken on a journey of learning.

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