Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series III)
By: Dennis Meissner
3.82
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Arrangement and description lie at the very heart of the archival endeavor. While all archival func…
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1. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
By: Tony Judt
4.37
Format: 933 pages, Paperback
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of th… read more
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"Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men."-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all too clear, exacerbated it. If the USSR faced an intractable set of national minorities, this was in …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"The imposition of a Russian rather than a German solution cut Europe’s vulnerable eastern half away from the body of the continent. At the time this was not a matter of great concern to western Europ…"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Maastricht had three significant side-effects. One of them was the unforeseen boost it gave to NATO. Under the restrictive terms of the Treaty it was clear (as the French at least had intended) that …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
2. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
By: Louise S. Robbins
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismi… read more
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4. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
5. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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6. Fates and Furies
By: Lauren Groff
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, th… read more
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7. An Oresteia
By: Euripides , Sophocles , Aeschylus , Anne Carson
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Hardcover
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8. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
9. The Librarian of Crooked Lane (Glass Library, #1)
By: C.J. Archer
3.84
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. TH… read more
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10. No One Is Talking About This
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.55
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more
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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
11. The Death of Jane Lawrence
By: Caitlin Starling
3.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure… read more
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12. Nothing to See Here
By: Kevin Wilson
3.96
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding sch… read more
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"That would be perfect,"-Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
"A wicked child is the most beautiful thing in the world."-Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
"What’s the point of having money if you can’t use it to make people like you?"-Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
"I grew up in the valley of that mountain, just poor enough that I could imagine a way out."-Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
13. The Whalebone Theatre
By: Joanna Quinn
4.06
Format: 558 pages, Hardcover
A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more
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"Without passion we are only machines."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
14. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
15. Elektra
By: Jennifer Saint
3.68
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeanc… read more
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"I had not dreamed I would bring my children into a world that could drain their blood in the light of dawn before they’d had a chance to live at all."-Jennifer Saint, Elektra
"Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour."-Jennifer Saint, Elektra
"The wine tasted like dirt to me. I could shriek out my warnings, claw at my flesh, hurl my goblet right into Paris' face, but they would still carry on as though I did not exist."-Jennifer Saint, Elektra
"Let him come back so that I can see his eyes as the light drains from them. Let him come back and die at the hands of his bitterest enemy. Let him come back so that I can watch him suffer. And let me…"-Jennifer Saint, Elektra
16. Currents of Archival Thinking
By: Terry Eastwood
3.43
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Currents of Archival Thinking explores key topics in the theory and practice of archival studies wi… read more
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17. Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series III)
By: Dennis Meissner
3.82
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Arrangement and description lie at the very heart of the archival endeavor. While all archival func… read more
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