Past Perfect

Summer love in a village committed to colonial reenactment.

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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage

The life of the "first person of African descent in the Americas to publish a book."

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Lightning Rods

An ingenious way to prevent sexual harassment becomes big business.

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Bird on Fire

A study of urban sustainability in Phoenix finds troubling realities.

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The Apothecary

Plucked from her California home, a young girl discovers a world of magical potions in 1950s London.

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City of Orphans

When a street urchin's sister is framed, he must venture into the cesspool of New York City to clear her name.

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Burnout

The morning after a crazy night forces a young woman to ask herself some serious questions.

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An Everlasting Meal

A book of gastronomic meditation that lingers over food the way guests linger at a good dinner party.

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Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America

A bracing account of one man's decades-long struggle to stanch urban violence.

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The Isle of Blood

An apprentice in the disciple of "monstrumology" must choose between an ordinary life and the thrill of the hunt.

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Wildwood

The lead singer of the Decembrists pens a novel filled with characters you might find in one of his songs.

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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

Something strange is afoot in this new novel about a "B student with a body count."

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Perfect

An arresting new novel-in-verse follows four Nevada teens as they try to come to terms with their flaws and limitations.

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The Friar of Carcassonne

In a corner of medieval France, one man's stand against the Inquisition.

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Chike and the River

The celebrated Nigerian novelist's tale of a child's journey into a larger world appears in its first American edition.

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Dreams of Significant Girls

Three girls from very different worlds find camaraderie in an old-fashioned boarding school facing radically changing times.

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Black Diamond

Good food and evil deeds in the French countryside.

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Now You See It

What the science of attention can tell us about the world, and what we're likely missing.

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Bobby Fischer

Harry Benson's photos capture the chess titan at the height of his powers.

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Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director

A rebellious Hollywood auteur's genius and self-destruction.

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On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe

A magical ramble through the borderlands of East and West.

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Don't Kill the Birthday Girl

Growing up allergic to almost everything, the world becomes a dangerous place.

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Andy Warhol’s New York City

A guide in "four walks" that take the reader on a tour of Manhattan fit for a superstar.

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Turn Right at Machu Picchu

A modern exploration of the mysterious Incan city, and the history of its rediscovery.

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The Last Gunfight

The real story behind the storied showdown in a Tombstone, Arizona vacant lot.

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The Tao of Travel

The globe-trotting author celebrates the art of travel writing in a collection aimed to spark the reader's wanderlust.

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Berlin 1961

In one of the Cold War's most resonant skirmishes, Nikita Khruschev  put the new American leadership to the test.

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Ghost in a Red Hat

Past and present collide in an assemblage of poems "whipped together by windstorm and fire."

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Evel

The high flights and disastrous crashes of the cycle-jumping daredevil.

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Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

The Aerosmith singer's memoir offers self-reflection and self-promotion in equal measure, and at full volume.

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May 23: Girolamo Savonarola was hanged on this day in 1498 and then incinerated in the same piazza in which the citizens of Florence had earlier attended more than one "bonfire of the vanities." George Eliot's 1863 novel Romola,

Do you recall the tagline from the very first Superman movie? "You'll believe a man can fly!" Well, I'm tempted to craft such a hyperbolic assertion for China Miéville's…

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Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down

When a job at a French ad agency landed in his lap, novelist Rosecrans Baldwin had the chance to fulfill a lifelong dream of living la vie Parisienne. And though cold réalité  -- in the form of financial struggles and an office culture where his rudimentary Francais didn't quite cut the mustard -- intruded, the result was a more mature take on the city of his fantasies, flaws included.

Why Cats Land on Their Feet

The feline acrobatics and other mysteries of everyday physics that Mark Levi explores in this charming book are just the beginning. A fun and enlightening workout for your gray matter.

Dead Men

Scott's doomed Antartic expedition and the haunting mysteries surrounding its failure lead to obsession in Richard Pierce's debut novel. As painter Birdie Bowers pursues her fascination with the explorer and his death, she risks both her body and her heart for answers.