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Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm
Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm
by Jon Katz
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In Dog Days, Jon Katz, the squire of Bedlam Farm, allows us to live our dreams of leaving the city for the country, and shares the unpredictable adventure of farm life. The border collies, the sheep, the chickens, the cat, the ram, and one surprisingly... (read more)

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The Painted Drum
The Painted Drum
by Louise Erdrich
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When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian... (read more)

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Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality
Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality
by Leigh Eric Schmidt
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Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New Age seminars and holistic workshops, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and books by Deepak Chopra -- all are part of the religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history. In fact, they represent... (read more)

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Character Studies: Encounters with the Curiously Obsessed
Character Studies: Encounters with the Curiously Obsessed
by Mark Singer
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"For thirty years, Singers been MVP at The New Yorker . . . searching the country for superslices of Americana,” praised Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Singers previous book, Somewhere in America. His newest collection, Character... (read more)

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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
by Elizabeth Royte
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Out of sight, out of mind... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and... (read more)

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Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--And What We Should Do about It
Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--And What We Should Do about It
by Noah Feldman
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A brilliant and urgent appraisal of one of the most profound conflicts of our time Even before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout "values voters," it was clear that church-state matters in the United States had reached a crisis.... (read more)

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Fallen
Fallen
by David Maine
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Historical fiction can be a tough balance between fact and imagination. Biblical fiction, by extension, can be even more difficult to pull off — loaded as the stories and characters are with centuries of interpretation and emotion. Fallen succeeds... (read more)

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The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
by Priscilla J. McMillan
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On April 12, 1954, the nation was astonished to learn that scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer faced charges of violating national security. Why had the charismatic leader of the Manhattan Project — the man who led the team that developed the atomic... (read more)

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Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
by Ian Frazier
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Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who scaled the World Trade Center. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes... (read more)

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The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
by Steven Watts
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Henry Ford, a major architect of modern America, has lived on in the imagination of his fellow citizens as an enduring figure of fascination, an inimitable individual, a controversial personality, and a social visionary from the moment his Model T... (read more)

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What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and Bias in Higher Education
What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and Bias in Higher Education
by Michael Berube
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Berube offers a definitive rebuttal to conservative activists' most incendiary claims that America's universities have been infected by liberal bias, while arguing the case for liberalism itself--for human rights, free and unfettered inquiry, and the... (read more)

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Desertion
Desertion
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah gives us in Desertion a spellbinding novel of forbidden love and cultural upheaval, with consequences powerfully reverberating through three generations and across continents—from the heyday of... (read more)

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The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
by Michael Kimmelman
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A New York Times bestseller—a dazzling and inspirational survey of how art can be found and appreciated in everyday life Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, is known as a... (read more)

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The Reagan Diaries
The Reagan Diaries
by Ronald Reagan
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< P> During his eight years as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary, in which he recorded his innermost thoughts and observations. The handwritten diaries have been seen by only a few people to date, and they... (read more)

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Kay Fanning's Alaska Story
Kay Fanning's Alaska Story
by Kay Fanning
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Kay Woodruff Field, 38, an ex-debutante once called "the Grace Kelly of Chicago," loaded her three children into a battered station wagon and headed north to Alaska in 1965 after her divorce. Looking for a new life, she found it at the... (read more)

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Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
by William J Mann
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year   One of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of the Year Katharine Hepburn was her own creation--an ambitious, vulnerable woman who charmed the public with the image of an East Coast aristocrat... (read more)

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Up in Honey's Room: A Novel
Up in Honey's Room: A Novel
by Elmore Leonard
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The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know... (read more)

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Thirteen Steps Down
Thirteen Steps Down
by Ruth Rendell
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Mix Cellini is obsessed. And not just with the supermodel he's been stalking. He's also endlessly fascinated by the life of Reggie Christie, the infamous serial killer hanged fifty years ago. So when things get difficult — his snoopy landlady... (read more)

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Garden of the Finzi-continis (05 Edition)
Garden of the Finzi-continis (05 Edition)
by Giorgio Bassani
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From Chinua Achebe to Toni Morrison and Raymond Chandler to Joan Didion, the Everymans Library Contemporary Classics set is a collection of the finest literature of our time by award-winning and bestselling writers with new introductions and author... (read more)

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My Father the Spy: An Investigative Memoir
My Father the Spy: An Investigative Memoir
by John H Richardson
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As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, author John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. In the first years of World War II, his father, then an idealistic student of literature and sociology, was... (read more)

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