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Barbarian Days

A Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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****Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List“Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read . . . ” —The New York Times Magazine**Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of ... Read more

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****Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List“Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read . . . ” —The New York Times Magazine**Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of
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Crossing the Line

A Year in the Land of Apartheid

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days, Crossing the Line is “The best book to…understand the agony of [apartheid]” –Norman Rush, New York Times Book ReviewIn this vivid memoir, Bill Finnegan recounts his coming of age as a high school teacher in apartheid-era South Africa, where he moves between privileged white neighborhoods, poverty-stricken townships, and remote coastlines ... Read more

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days, Crossing the Line is “The best book to…understand the agony of [apartheid]” –Norman Rush, New York Times Book ReviewIn this vivid memoir, Bill Finnegan recounts his coming of age as a high school teacher in apartheid-era South Africa, where he moves between privileged white neighborhoods, poverty-stricken townships, and remote coastlines
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Cold New World

Growing Up in Harder Country

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today.“A status report on the American Dream [that] gets its power [from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people’s lives.”—Time“[William] Finnegan’s real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of ... Read more

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today.“A status report on the American Dream [that] gets its power [from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people’s lives.”—Time“[William] Finnegan’s real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of
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The award-winning debut by the acclaimed author of Cold New World.Named by The New York Times Book Review as a top ten nonfiction book of 1986, this seminal piece of cross-cultural journalism is an account of a white American's experience teaching black students in South Africaan account essential for its incisive coverage of the student anti-apartheid movement, as well as for the unpretentious ... Read more

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The award-winning debut by the acclaimed author of Cold New World.Named by The New York Times Book Review as a top ten nonfiction book of 1986, this seminal piece of cross-cultural journalism is an account of a white American's experience teaching black students in South Africaan account essential for its incisive coverage of the student anti-apartheid movement, as well as for the unpretentious
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Fight of the Century

Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline woodson, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Sergio De La Pava, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Hector Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, Moses Sumney, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ...

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane ... Read more

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The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane
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On All Sides Nowhere

Building a Life in Rural Idaho

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In the 1970s, a young man, eager to experience life like Thoreau and Walden, takes his wife and moves to a rural Idaho log cabin in this memoir.When Bill Gruber left Philadelphia for graduate school in Idaho, he and his wife decided to experience true rural living. His longing for the solitude and natural beauty that Thoreau found on Walden Pond led him to buy an abandoned log cabin and its ... Read more

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In the 1970s, a young man, eager to experience life like Thoreau and Walden, takes his wife and moves to a rural Idaho log cabin in this memoir.When Bill Gruber left Philadelphia for graduate school in Idaho, he and his wife decided to experience true rural living. His longing for the solitude and natural beauty that Thoreau found on Walden Pond led him to buy an abandoned log cabin and its
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Oral History

An Interdisciplinary Anthology

by Allan Nevins, Louis Starr, Ronald J. Grele, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Tuchman, William Cutler III, William Moss, Jan Vansina, Ruth Finnegan, David Lance, Saul Benison, Peter Friedlander, Amelia Fry, Lynwood Montell, Larry Danielson, Gary Okihiro, Sherna Gluck, Linda Shopes, Tamara Hareven, Alex Haley, Richard Dorson, Charles Joyner, Sidney Mintz, David Dunaway, Eugenia Meyer, Paul Thompson, Karen Hartewig, Daniel Voldman, Alessandro Portelli, Dora Schwarztein ...

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Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology is a collection of classic articles by some of the best known proponents of oral history, demonstrating the basics of oral history, while also acting as a guidebook for how to use it in research. Added to this new edition is insight into how oral history is practiced on an international scale, making this book an indispensable resource for scholars of ... Read more

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Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology is a collection of classic articles by some of the best known proponents of oral history, demonstrating the basics of oral history, while also acting as a guidebook for how to use it in research. Added to this new edition is insight into how oral history is practiced on an international scale, making this book an indispensable resource for scholars of
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Pandora's Jar

Women in the Greek Myths

by Natalie Haynes ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek mythology from Helen of ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek mythology from Helen of
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

A Novel

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**THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL GOOD BOOK OF THE YEARFor fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers’ life.**What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each ... Read more

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**THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL GOOD BOOK OF THE YEARFor fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers’ life.**What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each
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Homeland Elegies

A Novel

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This "profound and provocative" work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish followsan immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews)."Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman RushdieA deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies ... Read more

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This "profound and provocative" work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish followsan immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews)."Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman RushdieA deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies
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Catch and Kill

Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

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In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. Inspiration for the HBO Max streaming documentary series.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about ... Read more

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In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. Inspiration for the HBO Max streaming documentary series.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about
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The Candy House

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by Jennifer Egan ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • SLATE • THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERAlso named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24’s TV adaptation of The Candy House</em... ... Read more

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • SLATE • THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERAlso named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24’s TV adaptation of The Candy House</em...
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