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The Other Bennet Sister
A NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Jane fans rejoice . . . Exceptional storytelling and a true delight. --Helen Simonson, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Major …
The Age of Illusions
In the decades that followed, American leaders put that claim to the test. They embraced globalisation as a putative source of unprecedented wealth, embarked on wide-ranging …
Family Papers
For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped chronicle modernity as it was experienced by …
Man Of My Time
Finely wrought, a master class in the layering of time and contradiction that gives us a deeply imagined, and deeply human, soul. --Rebecca Makkai, The New York Times Book ReviewA …
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
A Guardian Book of the WeekLonglisted for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic …
Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
Human Relations and Other Difficulties
An incisive collection of essays by the editor of the London Review of Books, whom Hilary Mantel has called "a presiding genius" Mary-Kay Wilmers cofounded the London Review of …
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
From Giles Milton, the highly acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Big Chief Elizabeth is a riveting historical mystery of colonial America. In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I …
Wounded Shepherd
This deeply contextual biography centers on the tensions generated by the pope's attempt to turn the Church away from power and tradition and outwards to engage humanity with God's …
The American People: Volume 2
In The American People: Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact, Larry Kramer completes his radical reimagining of his country's history. Ranging from the brothels of 1950s Washington, …
Everything Is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes
One of Esquire's Best Cookbooks of 2020 and one of The Washington Post's Best Food Books of 2020In epigrammatic, nearly poetic diction, Grant . . . reminds us of how transformative …
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different.--The …