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One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies

Bite-sized tales from three purveyors of "short-short" fiction. Read more...

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Carlisle vs. Army

A legendary football game becomes a touchstone for
pre-WWI America. Read more...

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Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today

A memoir from the reporter who covered every NASA launch. Read more...

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Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man"

An eminent politcal observer on one of the original sparks of the democratic revolution. Read more...

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Mouth Wide Open

Essays from a culinary maverick, with a taste for experiment. Read more...

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A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their Own Narratives of Emancipation

Two extraordinary narratives by men who escaped into freedom, published for the first time. Read more...

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On God: An Uncommon Conversation

James Parker on the late author's ambitious finale: a book-length conversation about the divine. Read more...

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Flying to America: 48 More Stories

A new volume offers previously uncollected work from the celebrated fabulist. Read more...

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Touch and Go: A Memoir

The famous oral historian turns the microphone on himself. Read more...

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Ethel's Turn

Two new biographies explore a Broadway legend's life, onstage and off. Read more...

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Gomorrah

A crusading Italian journalist traces the web of corruption that ensnares a city. Read more...

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Axis

The ambitious trilogy about an alien intervention in human history continues with the settling of a new world. Read more...

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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

The eminent historian and writer surveys the lasting impact of the Founders' successful innovations -- and their failures. Read more...

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Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Did Cezanne unlock the secrets of the cerebrum -- a full century ahead of scientists? Read more...

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Chatter

A marriage comes under pressure in the age of media overload, in this darkly comic novel. Read more...

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