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Ross, music critic for "The New Yorker," journeys from Vienna before the First World War to New York in the 1970s and 80s. The result is not so much a history of 20th-century music as it is a history of the 20th century through its music.

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On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was just seventy days into his first term of office when John W. Hinckley, Jr., opened fire outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, wounding the president, press secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent...

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Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates i...

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This dazzling novel that established Bolano's international reputation is the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through their darkening world.

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"If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." --Seymour M. Hersh Winner of the National Book Award A National Bestseller A modern classic of Middle Eastern reportage, now with a new preface by the author. One of...

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Through their dramatic stories, Gopal shows that the Afghan war, so often regarded as a hopeless quagmire, could in fact have gone very differently. Top Taliban leaders actually tried to surrender within months of the US invasion, renouncing all p...

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More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two gen...

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"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World , every seat is a good one." -Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post " The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a ...

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The definitive novel about young love and the city of Paris--sexy, intense, and daring.

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What if God fell in love and the person was already married? A bitter story of the very first love triangle between a man, his wife, and their God <BR>First came Adam, whose fall soured His quest for absolute authority, then Noah, whose drea...

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The so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, has inspired young men and women all over the world to commit horrible atrocities in its name. They have flooded into the Islamic State's stronghold in Syria and Iraq and carried out attacks under its black ba...

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Acclaimed master of psychological suspense Emmanuel Carrere, whose fiction John Updike described as "stunning" ("The New Yorker"), explores the double life of a respectable doctor, 18 years of lies, five murders, and the extrem...

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A groundbreaking and timely book about how evolutionary biology can explain our black-and-white brains, and a lesson in how we can escape the pitfalls of binary thinking. Several million years ago, natural selection equipped us with binary, black-...

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"Catcher in the Rye meets A Brief History of Time in Peter Hoeg's Borderliners" (Glamour)--a tightly-wound, stunningly original psychological drama about a young man at an ominous Copenhagen boarding school. "Skillfully wrought"...

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This heartrending elegy to human passion is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents house, a cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.

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Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. Suddenly they are given an unexpected chance at freedom and w...

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Author of The Savage Detectives and 2666 Crushed by a devastating scandal, university professor Óscar Amalfitano flees Barcelona for Santa Teresa-a Mexican city close to the U.S. border, where women are being killed in staggering numbers. There, A...

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From the author of "Smilla's Sense of Snow "comes this highly imaginative novel, "wonderful in scope . . . crammed with Danish history, social realism, satire, magic realism, high romance, and sexual goings-on" ("Newsday&q...

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From André Aciman, the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name , comes an eclectic collection of essays on memory and exile inspired by the quiet moments of an introspective traveler A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of the Yea...

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Set in Romania at the height of Ceauescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished province for the city in search of better prospects and camaraderie. But their hopes are rava...

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A Picador Paperback Original From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South. In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century i...

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An elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper middle class blacks, following an unnamed narrator from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis, to a brief tenure as minister of information for a local radical organisation, to th...

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The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings...

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The third book on the Hatzfeld's definitive study of the Rwandan genocide: the first-hand accounts of Hutus and Tutsis forced to live side-by-side and get along after the killers are released from prison en masse.

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Author of Emma Who Saved My Life and Lookaway, Lookaway Gospel concerns the search for a lost first-century gospel of the Bible, a document that could shake the foundations of Christianity. Wilton Barnhardt's narrative races through three continen...

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Even before the recent earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption. Maligned and misunderstood, the nation has long been blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as acclaimed histori...

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"A greatly gifted and highly original artist...Various Antidotes is purely and simply wonderful."--"The New York Times Book Review" The miraculous, transformative stories of Various Antidotes range across the world of history a...

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In a narrative sparkling with wit, Nega Mezlekia recalls his boyhood in Jiiga, Ethiopia, during the fall of Emperor Selassie, and his bold journey to manhood during the rise to power of the communist Junta whose merciless Red Terror slaughtered 10...

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Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's Repetition tells of Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only with two of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural...

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A madcap novel of institutional folly, following the success of Paul Murray's wildly original breakout hit, Skippy Dies Meet Claude: an investment bank drone longing for something more meaningful. Marooned in soggy Dublin, he yearns for art, philo...

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