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21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of Outst...
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In 1993, Picador celebrates its 21st anniversary. This book marks this event. Twenty-one authors who have contributed to Picador's success were each invited to write and choose a year in Picador's existence which had affected them personally. The years were 1972 to 1992 inclusive and reasons for cho..
A Change of Climate: A Novel
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Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affai..
A Crowded Heart: A Novel
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Through the gaze of a young boy, Nicholas Papandreou narrates the story of a family uprooted from their home in the United States to live in Greece in pursuit of a father's political ambition.In a delicately crafted series of vignettes that create the portrait of an unforgettable family, A Crowded H..
A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germ...
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Product DescriptionWinner of the Mark Lynton History PrizeA Los Angeles Times Best BookA Koret Jewish Book Award FinalistA Past in Hiding is a survivor story and historical investigation that offers new insight into daily life in the Third Reich and the powers and pitfalls of memory. At the outbreak..
A Prayer for the Dying: A Novel
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New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year“A new masterpiece of American literature.” Dennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly“A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It’s twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithf..
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of ...
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In A Strange Eventful History, one of our greatest living biographers turns his attention to a gruop of history's most influential performers, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater.Ellen Terry was ther era's most powerful actress. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted that ..
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974...
$27.98
The second volume in an unprecedented publishing event: the complete Collège de France lectures of one of the most influential thinkers of the last centuryMichel Foucault remains among the towering intellectual figures of postmodern philosophy. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medici..
Ace of Spades: A Memoir
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Product Description A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you areDavid Matthews was born on the line between races. His mother was white, but she disappeared when he was an infant, leaving him with pale skin and the prospect of a Jewish identity. His father was black, a journal..
American Purgatorio: A Novel
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American Purgatorio is the story of a happily married man who discovers, as he walks out of a convenience store, that his wife has suddenly vanished. In cool, precise prose, written as both a detective story and a meditation on the seven deadly sins, Haskell tells a story that ranges from the browns..
Amexica: War Along the Borderline
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About the AuthorED VULLIAMY was the New York correspondent for The Observer from 1997 to 2003 and spent many years as an international correspondent for The Guardian. The author of Seasons in Hell, Vulliamy lives in London and Arizona.Product DescriptionWith a New AfterwordIn 2009, Ed Vulliamy trave..
Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs)
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In the thrilling next novel by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.It's Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The follo..
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
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An End to Suffering is a search to understand the Buddha's relevance in a world where class oppression and religious violence are rife, and where poverty and terrorism cast a long, constant shadow.Pankaj Mishra describes his restless journeys into India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, among Islamists an..
And Both Shall Row: A Novella and Stories
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A New York Times Notable Book.And Both Shall Row: A Novella and Stories brings to life the people of Clayborne, a small town where tornado-driven cows and family excursions gain epic stature and matters of the heart are paramount.And Both Shall Row, the novella that lends its title to this collectio..
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission...
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The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph.In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronaut..
Arrogance: A Novel
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In Joanna Scott's breakthrough novel Arrogance, the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century ..
Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famo...
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The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's..
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled professionThe struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited re..
Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
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From the award-wining author of Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan's first book, Blood Horses, combines personal reflections about his father and an in-depth look at the history and culture of Thoroughbred racehorses.Winner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' Award"Sullivan has found the transcendent in the ho..
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control
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Vivid and disturbing, Brainwash is essential insight into the modern practice of interrogation and torture.With access to formerly classified documentation and interviews from the CIA, U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and British Intelligence Corps, Dominic Streatfeild traces the evolution of mind control from ..
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Ge...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-d..
Chasing the Red, White, and Blue: A Journey in Toc...
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In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville his journey to America, traveling from New York to the frontier city of Flint, Michigan, down the Ohio River Valley and into Mississippi, then turning east through the Old South and concluding in Washington, D.C. His journey spawned the classic Democracy in America, th..
City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism
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Award-winning journalist Jim Krane charts the history of Dubai from its earliest days, considers the influence of the family who has ruled it since the nineteenth century, and looks at the effect of the global economic downturn on a place that many tout as a blueprint for a more stable Middle EastTh..
Class Trip & The Mustache
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La Moustache--now a film directed by Emmanuel Carrère"What would you say if I shaved off my mustache " asks The Mustache's hero of his wife. Once removed, his wife and friends not only fail to recognize him, but deny the existence of the former mustache altogether. A metaphysical nightmare of the gr..
Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography
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The story of cocaine isn't just about crime and profit; it's about psychoanalysis, about empire building, about exploitation, emancipation, and, ultimately, about power. To tell the story of the twentieth century without reference to this drug and its contribution is to miss a vital and fascinating ..
Conversations with Myself
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"[Nelson Mandela] has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him." from the foreword by President Barack ObamaForeword by President Barack ObamaNelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of ou..