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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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No Fault

No Fault

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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025: Vogue, Vulture, Harper’s Bazaar, Bustle, Lit Hub, The Millions“Enigmatic, opalescent, so precise.” —Jia TolentinoAn intimate and candid account of one of the most...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Need to Know

Need to Know

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One of The New Yorker's "Best Books of the Year" * A Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize Finalist "Authoritative. . . . [Reynolds's] contribution to our understanding of the rise of American...
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The Deorhord

The Deorhord

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An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the...
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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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Bob Crawford in Conversation with Sean Wilentz: "America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick"

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Emily Nemens in conversation with Jack Livings: "Clutch: A Novel" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration

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The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series presents Didi Jackson and Major Jackson

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The C. K. Williams Reading Series presents Hala Alyan and Student Readers

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D. Vance Smith in conversation with Simon Gikandi: "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" – A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration

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