The Battle of Ap Bac
An eBook short.In the opening years of the Vietnam War, a small group of American military advisors and their South Vietnamese allies were facing down the Viet Cong. The confident...
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The Madmen of Benghazi
THE MADMEN OF BENGHAZI, available for the first time in the U.S., is a gripping, racy, ripped-from-the-headlines espionage thriller set in volatile post-Qaddafi Libya. Gérard...
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Moral Disorder: A Story
An eBook short.The author of such towering novels as The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood creates worlds just as vividly...
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The Outing
An eBook short.In James Baldwin’s classic short story, “The Outing,” from Going to Meet the Man, a Harlem church group escapes the city for a summer day-trip...
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Vissi d'Arte
An eBook short.A classic Lorrie Moore story from her beloved collection Like Life, “Vissi d’Arte” is funny, bright, a little sad, biting: a brokenhearted...
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We Should All Be Feminists
An eBook short.What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted...
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How War Begins
An eBook short.From the dean of modern military historians, John Keegan: a key selection from his masterpiece, The First World War. The road to World War I, from the...
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Jack Firebrace's War
An eBook short.A dispatch from the underground world of Birdsong, a story of love and World War I. In a stagnant war of trenches and barbed wire, there...
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The Blood Telegram
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionWinner of the Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Foreign Affairs BookOne of the Best Books of the Year at * The Economist * Financial Times * The...
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Police
Finalist -- GoodReads Choice Award -- Mystery/ThrillerA vindictive killer is stalking Oslo’s streets, slaying police officers at the scenes of crimes they...
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Book of Ages
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR • Time Magazine • The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The...
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Claire of the Sea Light
A New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, an NPR "Great Read," a Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book, and a Library...
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Levels of Life
An NPR Best Book of the YearIn this elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir, Julian Barnes has written about ballooning and photography, love and...
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Parade
In a crowded two-bedroom apartment in Tokyo, four Japanese twenty-somethings are waiting for their lives to begin. They have come from all over Japan, bringing with them dreams of success and romance,...
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The Story of the Human Body
In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. He illuminates the...
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Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an
In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a...
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Waiting for a Goal
An eBook short.A selection from the beloved bestseller Among the Thugs, “Waiting for a Goal” pinpoints the actual soccer amid the rampant hooliganism. They...
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Longbourn
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, a Seattle Times Best Title, a Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book, a Miami Herald Favorite Book, and a...
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The Lowland
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • A Time Top Fiction Book • An NPR "Great Read" • A Chicago Tribune Best Book • A USA Today Best Book • A People...
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Beer in the Snooker Club
Set amidst the turbulence of 1950s Cairo, Beer in the Snooker Club is the story of Ram Bey, an over-educated, under-ambitious young Egyptian struggling to find out...
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The Cancer Chronicles
A New York Times Notable Book of 2013When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, George Johnson set out to learn everything he could...
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The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation....
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Revolutionary Summer
A Washington Post Notable BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events...
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Subtle Bodies
**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK**In a sophisticated romp through the tribulations and joys of marriage and friendship, a group of college friends reunites two decades...
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