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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Daniel James Brown
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For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics. Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington... (read more)

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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
by Michael Pollan
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Fire, water, air, earth — our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education. In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four... (read more)

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Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From the Sopranos and the Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad
Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From the Sopranos and the Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad
by Brett Martin
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A riveting and revealing look at the shows that helped cable television drama emerge as the signature art form of the twenty-first century.   In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation... (read more)

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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
by John Bradshaw
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Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. In Cat Sense, renowned... (read more)

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1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson and James Harkin
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Did you know? • Cows moo in regional accents. • The international dialing code for Russia is 007. • The water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body. • Pants are responsible for twice as many accidents as chain saws. • Saddam... (read more)

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The Importance of Being Ernest
The Importance of Being Ernest
by Ernest Cline
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The New York Times best selling author of Ready Player One returns to his roots in this poetic celebration of all things nerd-core. Cline's latest collection takes readers into a private landscape of science fiction, pop culture, and 80′s nostalgia.... (read more)

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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
by David Epstein
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In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance genes might have traveled with... (read more)

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Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It
by David M. Ewalt
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HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS. Ancient red dragons with 527 hit points, +44 to attack, and a 20d10 breath weapon, to be specific. In the world of fantasy role-playing, those numbers describe a winged serpent with immense strength and the ability to spit fire... (read more)

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Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
by Kelly Williams Brown
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"A young journo mines a brief life and years of advice from friends and professionals — counselors, social workers, her car mechanic Shane — in order to create this how-to guide to becoming (or simply being) a 'grown-up.' The 468 steps are more... (read more)

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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks
by Keith Houston
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A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (... (read more)

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Signifying Rappers
Signifying Rappers
by David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello
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Finally back in print — David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an... (read more)

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Big Appetites: Tiny People in a World of Big Food
Big Appetites: Tiny People in a World of Big Food
by Christopher Boffoli
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Welcome to a world where little people have big personalities. A world that's upside down and yet weirdly, wonderfully real. A world where Lilliputian thieves poach strawberry seeds. Where it takes a guy with a jackhammer to pop open pistachios. Where... (read more)

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How Music Works
How Music Works
by David Byrne
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How Music Works is David Byrne's buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators — along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses... (read more)

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A Thousand Mornings: Poems
A Thousand Mornings: Poems
by Mary Oliver
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The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her lifes work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home... (read more)

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The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me about Service, Hope, and Healing
The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me about Service, Hope, and Healing
by Susannah Charleson
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An inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued, and can rescue in return. With her critically acclaimed, bestselling first book, Scent of the Missing, Susannah Charleson was widely praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and... (read more)

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Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
by Nate Jackson
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One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the national football league This is not a celebrity tell-all of professional sports. Slow Getting Up is a survivor's real-time account of playing six seasons (twice as long as the average NFL career) for... (read more)

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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
by Tim. Parks
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Tim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he... (read more)

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The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge?: A Philosophical Conundrum
The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge?: A Philosophical Conundrum
by Thomas Cathcart
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A trolley is careering out of control. Up ahead are five workers. On a spur to the right stands a single individual. And you're a bystander holding a switch that could divert the trolley. Should you let events unfold and watch as the trolley plows into... (read more)

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A Million Little Bricks: The Unofficial Illustrated History of the Lego Phenomenon
A Million Little Bricks: The Unofficial Illustrated History of the Lego Phenomenon
by Sarah Herman
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There aren’t many titles that haven’t been bestowed on LEGO toys, and it’s not hard to see why. From its inception in the early 1930s right up until today, the LEGO Group’s history is as colorful as the toys it makes. Few other... (read more)

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The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti
The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti
by Rafael Schacter
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Painted murals first appeared in Latin America in the early 20th century; in the 1950s, spray-can graffiti associated with Latino gangs followed, notably the “cholo” graffiti of Los Angeles. Today, street art has traveled to nearly every... (read more)

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