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“argues successfully that hope is rational and can be cultivated as a skill, instead of being purely emotional and naive.”

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"Readers will not agree with everything he writes, but isn't that the whole point of a book like this?

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"For those wondering why they should bother to vote, these pages effectively dramatize why it matters and the cost we all pay when elections aren't free and fair."

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“a compelling story of the destruction and vileness [the protagonists] set in motion and the efforts to finally bring them to justice.”

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On page 173 of Teresa Wong’s excellent new graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories, we learn that monarch butterflies take multiple generations to compl

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"Historically women are taught that it is unladylike to call attention to themselves and one should always defer to men, and this book offers evidence-based rebuttals to th

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In an era more susceptible than ever to cults of personality elevating the foolish and the dangerous, America First recounts a cautionary tale well worth knowing.

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“Leavitt gives an intimate, honest depiction of how she moves from the blackest days slowly into the sunlight. There is no way out of grief other than through it.”

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“The legion of admirers of Pedro Almodóvar’s brilliant films will find The Last Dream an interesting supplement to his body of cinematic work.”

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Why We Love Football is Joe Posnanski’s latest in a series of sports books that include Why We Love Baseball and The Baseball 100.

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“the Bronx surely is a cornucopia of stories, and it’s hard to imagine anyone who could tell those stories with more clarity, optimism, and love.”

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Thomas Piketty is a French economist who got his PhD at the London School of Economics and began his teaching career at MIT.

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“What did it mean to be American Jew when the country seemed on the verge of implosion?”

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“Silver takes on the ambitious goal of reconciling the two groups that he sees driving America’s divisiveness.”

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“an education, a history lesson, a whodunit, and a wonderful introduction to the world of art—and crime.”

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Danez Smith is a well-recognized poet from Minnesota. After two years of “artistic silence,” Smith comes out with Bluff, a collection of over 50 poems.

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“should be considered as a great, unit-driven classroom text for young people as it offers inroads to a variety of artists across numerous mediums from around the world.”

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“So why did the world need another film poster book? The answer is fairly simple: because the public will love it.”

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“Boot’s biography is not compelling, nor does it reveal the real Ronald Reagan.”

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“With Scandals, we are here to respect the camp, and the irreverent, flamboyant, and countercultural ethos. Osman’s willingness to defy expectations is admirable.”

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“For the interested casual reader who loves history, The Muse of History is a worthy read . . .”

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“places in one striking volume a variety of homoerotic work from throughout Warhol’s career, some of which was not displayed in his lifetime.”

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When police and prosecutors settle on a theory of a crime, especially a capital murder case, they often default to adversarial mode: They will hear nothing that contradicts or undermines their conc

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Hero City is meticulously researched, descriptively written, and provides insightful analysis of German and Soviet military tactics, strategy, an

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“For the reader who wants a time machine of the body and the heart, this novel is a great flight of fiction into the lives of three Wrights who dreamed—and of their times.”

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