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Flight Behavior
by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover: Nov 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world. |
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My First Coup d'Etat: And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa
by John Mahama
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 14 May 2013
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| My First Coup d'Etat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa. |
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Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
by Robert M. Edsel
Hardcover: 6 May 2013
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| An unforgettable story of epic thievery and political intrigue, Saving Italy is a testament to heroism on behalf of art, culture, and history. |
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How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
by Wendy Moore
Hardcover: 9 Apr 2013
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| Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment. |
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The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
by Brian Castner
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 9 Apr 2013
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| In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming that grabs readers by the throat even as it touches their hearts. |
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 2 Apr 2013
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| Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking. |
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
by Mary Roach
Hardcover: 1 Apr 2013
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| The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. |
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The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
by Jill Lepore
Hardcover: Jun 2012
Paperback: 26 Mar 2013
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| Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. |
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