The New York Times 100 Notables of 2011
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
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The culmination of five years of research and writing, AND SO IT GOES is the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut resonates with readers of all generations from the baby boomers who grew up with him to high school and college students who are discovering his work for the first time. Black-and-white illustrations (two 8-page inserts). 544p.
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A Moment in the Sun
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It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. This is the story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail, A MOMENT IN THE SUN takes the entire era in its sights – from the white-racist coup in Wi…
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
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Combining original sources, archival research and in-depth personal interviews, this riveting narrative follows the 230 women of the French Resistance who, imprisoned by the Gestapo outside of Paris, turned to each other, finding solace and strength in friendship. 25,000 first printing.
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A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
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Acclaimed historian Amanda Foreman follows the phenomenal success of her New York Times bestseller Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire with her long-awaited second work of nonfiction: the galvanizing story of the American Civil War and the major role played by Britain and its citizens in that epic struggle. Between 1861 and 1865, thousands of British citizens volunteered for service on both sides of Civil War. From the first cannon blasts on Fort Sumter to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, they…
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Joshua Cody, a brilliant young composer, was about to earn his Ph. D when he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Facing a bone marrow transplant and full radiation, he charts his struggle: the fury, the tendency to self-destruction, and the ruthless grasping for life and sensation: the encounter with a strange woman on Canal Street; the detailed morphine fantasy complete with a bride called Valentina while, in reality, hospital staff are pinning him to his bed. His book provi…
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11/22/63: A Novel
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In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King – who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer – takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, an…
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1493 : Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flo…
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1861: The Civil War Awakening
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1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. It reflects the fact of recognition that the 150th anniversary of this defining national drama and trauma is upon us. The book introduces readers to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes - among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer's wife, an idealistic band of German immigrants, a regiment of New York City firemen, a community of Virginia slaves, and a young college professor who would one day become p…
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1Q84
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A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s –1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet…. The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 – “Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring…
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The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
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Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories. In “Creation,” a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can’t get off the island – flights cancelled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In “Human Moments in World Wa…
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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
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Controversial and consummate essayist Christopher Hitchens looks with love, loathing, warmth, and authority at a wide range of political and cultural issues, past and present. Astute, vivid, and uninhibited on dozens of famous and not-so-famous writers, he is a phrasemaker par excellence, with a quiver full of barbed arrows, ready to fly at unsuspecting targets. His fresh perceptions of such figures as varied as Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Rebecca West, George Orwell, J.G. Ballard, and Ph…
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The Art of Cruelty : A Reckoning
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Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on representations of cruelty makes society more cruel.
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The Art of Fielding: A Novel
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At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. A wise, warmhearted, self-assured, and fiercely readable debut novel from Chad Harbach, a cofounder and coeditor of n+1. 512p.
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Assassins of the Turquoise Palace
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Offers the true story of the brutal murder of four Iranian opposition leaders, the subsequent investigation and the the trial that has been considered by some to be the most groundbreaking legal case since the Nuremberg trial. By the author of Journey From the Land of No.
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The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel
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After the husband and wife that she works for disappear, live-in maid Araceli takes their two boys on a journey through sprawling Los Angeles to locate their grandfather. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Translation Nation. 75,000 first printing.
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