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11/22/63: A Novel
by Stephen King
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November 8, 2011
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de ...
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
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October 25, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2011: Drawing on decades of research in psychology that resulted in a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Daniel Kahneman takes readers on an exploration of what influences thought example by example, sometimes with unlikely word pairs like ...
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The Art of Fielding: A Novel
by Chad Harbach
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Little, Brown and Company
September 7, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2011: Though The Art of Fielding is his fiction debut, Chad Harbach writes with the self-assurance of a seasoned novelist. He exercises a masterful precision over the language and pacing of his narrative, and in some 500 pages, there's rarely a word ...
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson
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May 10, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2011: In the Garden of Beasts is a vivid portrait of Berlin during the first years of Hitler’s reign, brought to life through the stories of two people: William E. Dodd, who in 1933 became America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s regime, and ...
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1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
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Knopf
October 25, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: The year is 1984, but not for long. Aomame bolts from the cab, walks onto the elevated Tokyo expressway, descends an emergency ladder to the street below, and enters a strange new world. In parallel, a math teacher and aspiring ...
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. Massie
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Random House
November 8, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2011: Once upon a time, there was a minor German princess named Sophia. She went on to become the world's richest and most powerful woman, ruler of its then-largest empire, revered ...
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The Marriage Plot: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 11, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: Even among authors, Jeffrey Eugenides possesses a rare talent for being able to inhabit his characters. In The Marriage Plot, his third novel and first in ten years (following the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex), Eugenides describes a year or so in the ...
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The Sense of an Ending (Borzoi Books)
by Julian Barnes
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Knopf
October 5, 2011
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“Elegant, playful, and remarkable.” —The New Yorker “A page turner, and when you finish you will return immediately to the beginning . . . Who are you? How can you be sure? What if you’re not who you think you are? What if you never were? . . . At ...
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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
by Christopher Hitchens
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Twelve
September 1, 2011
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"Anyone who occasionally opens one of our more serious periodicals has learned that the byline of Christopher Hitchens is an opportunity to be delighted or maddened-possibly both-but in any case not to be missed....His range is extraordinary, both in bread...
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Jerusalem: The Biography
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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October 25, 2011
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“Magnificent . . . The city’s first ‘biography’—a panoptic narrative of its rulers and citizens, heroes and villains, harlots and saints . . . Montefiore barely misses a trick or a character in taking us through the city’s story with compelling, breathless tension.”—Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal “Impossible to put ...
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
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W. W. Norton & Company
September 26, 2011
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“The Swerve is one of those brilliant works of non-fiction that's so jam-packed with ideas and stories it literally boggles the mind.” (NPR )“Pleasure may or may not be the true end of life, but for book lovers, few experiences can match the intellectual-aesthetic enjoyment delivered by a well-wrought ...
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard
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Doubleday
September 20, 2011
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2011"A staggering tale....Millard digs deeply into the turmoil that got James A. Garfield elected, the lunacy that got him shot and the medical malfeasance that turned a minor wound into a mortal one."--Janet Maslin, Top 10 Recommendations for 2011“One of the many pleasures ...
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The Cat's Table
by Michael Ondaatje
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Knopf
October 4, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: Michael Ondaatje's finely wrought new novel chronicles a young boy's passage from Sri Lanka to London onboard the Oronsay, both as it unfolds and in hindsight. Glancing off the author's own biography, the story follows 11-year-old Michael as he immerses himself ...
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
by Sir Max Hastings
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Knopf
November 1, 2011
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“A new, original, necessary history, in many ways the crowning of a life’s work. A professional war correspondent who has personally witnessed armed conflict in Vietnam, the Falkland Islands and other danger zones, Hastings has a sober, unromantic and realistic view of battle that puts him into a different ...
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Pulphead: Essays
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 25, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2011: What a fresh and daring voice. John Jeremiah Sullivan is a dynamic and gutsy writer, a cross between Flannery O'Connor and a decaffeinated Tom Wolfe, with just the right dash of Hunter S. Thompson. In fourteen essays ranging from an Axl Rose ...
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
by Susan Orlean
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Simon & Schuster
September 27, 2011
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Amazon Exclusive: Garth Stein Reviews Rin Tin Tin Garth Stein is the author of The Art of Racing in the Rain and How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets . I have no cultural or ...
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
by Tony Horwitz
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October 25, 2011
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"A hard-driving narrative of one of America’s most troubling figures… Horwitz describes the disaster in riveting terms… It’s impossible to read this fine book without thinking about modern-day Browns." –Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book Review (a New York Times Notable Book, 2011)"Horwitz’s skills are a good match for ...
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by Charles C. Mann
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August 9, 2011
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Guest Reviewer: Nathaniel Philbrick on 1493 by Charles C. Mann Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Last Stand; In the Heart of the Sea, which won ...
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin
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Penguin Press HC, The
September 20, 2011
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"The Quest superbly captures the great questions of energy and security that face our nation in this risky world. Daniel Yergin identifies the key issues, demonstrates their urgency, and lays out the choices. He does so with such deep expertise and with such vivid narrative ...
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Blue Nights
by Joan Didion
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November 1, 2011
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“A haunting memoir . . . Didion is, to my mind, the best living essayist in America . . . What appears on the surface to be an elegantly, intelligently, deeply felt, precisely written story of the loss of a beloved child is actually an elegantly, intelligently, deeply felt, ...
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
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Viking Adult
October 4, 2011
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"For anyone interested in human nature, the material is engrossing, and when the going gets heavy, Pinker knows how to lighten it with ironic comments and a touch of humor ... a supremely important book. To have command of so much research, spread across so many ...
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A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
by Amanda Foreman
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Random House
June 28, 2011
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Van Gogh: The Life
by Steven W. Naifeh
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Random House
October 18, 2011
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A Look Inside Van Gogh Jo Bonger Van Gogh with son Vincent van Gogh Credit: Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam Vincent van Gogh, ...
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The Buddha in the Attic
by Julie Otsuka
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August 23, 2011
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Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award in FictionAcclaim for Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic “Poetic . . . Otsuka combines the tragic power of a Greek chorus with the intimacy of a confession. She conjures up the lost voices of a generation of Japanese American women without ...
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Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
by Gabrielle Hamilton
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Random House
March 1, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2011: Gabrielle Hamilton's memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, is just what a chef's story should be--delectable, dripping with flavor, tinged with adrenaline and years of too-little sleep. What sets Hamilton apart, though, is her ability ...
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
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Pantheon
March 1, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2011: In a sense, The Information is a book about everything, from words themselves to talking drums, writing and lexicography, early attempts at an analytical engine, the telegraph and telephone, ENIAC, and the ubiquitous computers that followed. But that's just the "History." ...
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
by John Lewis Gaddis
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November 10, 2011
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We can be grateful to John Lewis Gaddis for bringing Kennan back to us, thoughtful, human, self-centred, contradictory, inspirational - a permanent spur as consciences are wont to be. Masterfully researched, exhaustively documented, Gaddis's moving work gi...
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
by Lisa Randall
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Ecco
September 20, 2011
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“Lisa Randall does a great job of explaining to the non-physicist the basic science approaches of modern physics and what the latest experiments might reveal. . . . This is a must read to appreciate what is coming in our future.” (J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. )“An exciting read about ...
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