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She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

by Emma Brockes

"One of those memoirs that remind you why you liked memoirs in the first place... It has the density of a very good novel... As you do with the best writers, you feel lucky to be in Ms. Brockes's company." --Dwight...


The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream

by Thomas Dyja

Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains,...


My Animals and Other Family

by Clare Balding

"I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy. Most important of...


The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire

by Neil Irwin

When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world's...


Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

by Adam Alter

An illuminating look at the way the thoughts we have and the decisions we make are influenced by forces that aren't always in our control

Why are people named Kim, Kelly, and Ken more likely to donate to Hurricane...


Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A History of the World in Three Castes

by David Priestland

A bold new interpretation of modern history as a continual struggle among three prevailing power groups: merchant, soldier, and sage

Noted Oxford historian David Priestland argues history is, at base, a conflict...


The Still Point of the Turning World: A Mother's Story

by Emily Rapp

Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan.  He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun.  He would be good at crossword puzzles like...


Comandante: Hugo Chavez's Venezuela

by Rory Carroll

In the aftermath of Hugo Chávez's death, the inside story of his life, his Venezuela, and his legacy.

Hugo Chávez was a phenomenon. He has been compared to Napoléon, Nasser, Perón, and Castro, but the truth...


Ghana Must Go

by Taiye Selasi

Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku's death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family...


The Jackal's Share

by ChristopherMorgan Jones

"Terrific news for fans of first-class thrillers." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR.org

A murder in a Tehran hotel leaves the London art world spinning. The deceased, beloved at home as a proud dealer in antiquities,...


The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

by Ernest Freeberg

The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New...


Bebe Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting

by Pamela Druckerman

À la carte wisdom from the international bestseller Bringing up Bébé

In BRINGING UP BÉBÉ, journalist and mother Pamela Druckerman investigated a society of good sleepers, gourmet eaters, and mostly calm...


Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government

by Gavin Newsom & Lisa Dickey

"Citizenville offers both an impassioned plea for more tech-enabled government and a tour d'horizon of the ways some governments have begun using technology to good effect... a fast-paced and engaging read"...


After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead

by AlanS. Blinder

One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons

Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history-books written to fill the...


The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse

by Sam Sheridan

Sam Sheridan has traveled the world as an amateur boxer and mixed martial arts fighter; he has worked as an EMT, a wilderness firefighter, a sailor, a cowboy at the largest ranch in Montana, and in construction...


Artful

by Ali Smith

The incomparable Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives

In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures...


The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn't, What Shouldn't Make You Happy, but Does

by Sonja Lyubomirsky

Happiness expert Sonja Lyubomirsky's research-based lessons in how to find opportunity in life's thorniest moments

In The Myths of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life,...


The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

by David Nasaw

2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist

New York Times Ten Best Books of 2012

"Riveting...The Patriarch is a book hard to put down."  - Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review

In this magisterial new work...


What's a Dog For?: The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend

by John Homans

John Homans adopted his dog, Stella, from a shelter for all the usual reasons: fond memories of dogs from his past, a companion for his son, an excuse for long walks around the neighborhood. Soon enough, she...


The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today

by Thomas E. Ricks

From the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble, an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq

History has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall,...