Mountaineering

Exhilaration, heroics, death and laughter atop the world's tallest peaks.

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Grilling

Tips, techniques, and tasty recipes for amateurs, experts, and connoisseurs.

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Heists

Cracking capers, real and imaginary.

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Pulp Fictions

A glorious age of storytelling, collected, revisited, and re-imagined.

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Independence Day

A historical, biographical, and literary celebration.

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Pseudonyms

Great writers under covers.

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Golf

Humor, drama, and history on the links.

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Navigators

Page-turning journeys around the world and into the unknown.

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Authors and Editors

Partnerships, struggles, and collaborations.

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Americans in Paris

From the Home of the Brave to the City of Light.

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The Cold War

Understanding the global struggle that defined half a century.

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On Foot

It's how you get there that matters.

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Venice

Stones, stories, and Bellinis from La Serenissima.

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The Telephone

Hook ups, hang ups, history, and one hot conversation.

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William Styron

The work -- and the life -- of one of America's most accomplished novelists.

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Due Dates and Deadlines

With tax day looming, a set of books that shed insight on the power of a schedule.

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Hoaxes, Frauds, and Con Men

A cavalcade of diverting deceptions.

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Fly Fishing

Dip into a fresh stream of words and images.

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Gardening

A cultivated patch of fertile plots and well-tended prose.

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Travels in Ireland

Five journeys in a storied land.

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Numbers

From Innumeracy to The Education of T. C. Mits, an exploration of the powers and pleasures of mathematics.

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Street Basketball

True stories of hopes, dreams, and jump shots.

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Other Presidents

In celebration of Presidents' Day, some books that take readers beyond Washington and Lincoln.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Reading to explore the work and life of an American original.

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The Hamburger

The surprisingly enduring life of a humble sandwich makes delicious reading. Recipes included.

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Hitchcock

Five books that open a window on the life and work of the great director.

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Korea

Reading to illuminate an enigmatic culture and its conflicts old and new.

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Civil Rights

Bravery, suffering, tragedy, and triumph, with ideals—and lives—on the line.

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Football

Gridiron legends, stories, strategies, and laughter.

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Wine

From the encyclopedic to the personal, five books to help you uncork the mysteries of wine.

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May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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She Left Me the Gun

Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret.  A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Expand your memory, puzzle-solving skills, and sense of metaphysical wonder with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett's tasting menu of user-friendly neuroscience and poetic lingual pursuits.

When the Devil Drives

Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results.