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Write Like a Man

Write Like a Man

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How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics...
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The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen

The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen

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*COMING IN FEBRUARY 2026! The second book the series: The Calico Cat at the Chibineko Kitchen* “Wonderful . . . A cozy, emotional gem . . . Each chapter is a quiet, healing moment, filled with food,...
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year • Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year “A bittersweet study in both grief and joy.” ­—Time “A sparklingly...
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Help Wanted | | 9781324105176

Help Wanted

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Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss,...
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Who Owns This Sentence?

Who Owns This Sentence?

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Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment,...
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Wild and Distant Seas

Wild and Distant Seas

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Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of...
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Boomers

Boomers

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"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry CastleWith two recessions and a botched...
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Capital | | 9780691190075

Capital

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A major new translation of the explosive book that transformed our worldKarl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist...
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The Divine Comedy | | 9780691212777

The Divine Comedy

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For the first time in one volume, the most elegant and accessible translation of Dante’s enduring masterpieceCharles Singleton’s English-language translation of The Divine Comedy is widely considered...
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Dirty Pictures

Dirty Pictures

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In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set...
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In Praise of Good Bookstores

In Praise of Good Bookstores

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From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good...
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1177 B. C.

1177 B. C.

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A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapseIn 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but...
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Promised Land

Promised Land

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A timely work of groundbreaking history explains how the American middle class ballooned at mid-century until it dominated the nation, showing who benefited and what brought the expansion to an end...
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Polis

Polis

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"The polis, the dominant political form around which ancient Greeks structured their lives and activities, is perhaps their most fundamental creation and enduring legacy. It was a highly successful...
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The Children of Athena | | 9781639365159

The Children of Athena

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A brilliant, fascinating portrait of the intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers during the Age of Rome.In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years...
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Author Tea: Sally Hepworth, presented by Princeton Public Library
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Author Tea: Sally Hepworth, presented by Princeton Public Library

Sat 5/2 @ 3:00 PMThe Historical Society of Princeton's Updike Farmstead Australi

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Simon Morrison in conversation with Renata Kapilevich: "A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow"
Apr 29th 2026

Simon Morrison in conversation with Renata Kapilevich: "A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow"

Weds 4/29 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Simon Morrison discusses his new book with Ren

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Susan Stewart in conversation with Eliza Griswold: "Bramble"
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Susan Stewart in conversation with Eliza Griswold: "Bramble"

Tues 4/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Acclaimed poet Susan Stewart discusses her new

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Annette Gordon-Reed: "The Jefferson Paradox: Race, Slavery, and the Promise of America”

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Apr 22nd 2026

“The Third Reich of Dreams”: A roundtable on Charlotte Beradt’s study of the dreaming of political fables in Nazi Germany

Weds 4/22 @ 4:30 PMBetts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University A roundtable on Th

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On Journalism and Scholarship: Kevin Sack in conversation with Avram Alpert about Mother Emanuel: "Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church"

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Cortney Lamar Charleston in conversation with Patricia Smith: "It’s Important I Remember: Poems"

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Princeton Public Lectures present Gabriel Zucman: “Wealth, Power, and Democracy”

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