Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays
By: Joseph Epstein
4.26
Format: 458 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein. America’…
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1. Dear Committee Members
By: Julie Schumacher
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more
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2. A Student's Guide to the Study Of History
By: John Lukacs
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past 151 to … read more
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3. Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
By: Paul Johnson , None
3.50
Format: None pages,
"Truly a distinguished work of history...Modern Timesunites historical & critical consciousness. It… read more
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4. A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning
By: James V. Schall
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning is an inviting conversation with a learned scholar about the … read more
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5. Students Guide To Literature: Literature Guide
By: R.V. Young
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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6. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
7. The Peacock and the Sparrow
By: I.S. Berry
3.81
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more
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"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
8. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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9. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
10. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.37
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more
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11. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
By: Nellie Bowles
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more
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12. Mania
By: Lionel Shriver
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more
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13. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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14. The Shakespeare Requirement
By: Julie Schumacher
3.73
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post notable book of the year. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hi… read more
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"Still, all was quiet downstairs…and now the concept of leaving his bed had sent an urgent body-gram to his bladder, which over the years had become a thimble-sized organ with an impetuous streak."-Julie Schumacher, The Shakespeare Requirement
"Where to start, Fitger thought. The department was a funhouse of dysfunctional characters. Academia was, traditionally, a refuge for the poorly socialized and the obsessive; but English, at Payne, ha…"-Julie Schumacher, The Shakespeare Requirement
"She drained the pasta and looked out the window over the sink. In the middle of the street, paying no attention whatsoever to oncoming cars, two little boys were jousting with hockey sticks while rid…"-Julie Schumacher, The Shakespeare Requirement
15. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again
By: Robert Kagan
4.48
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radica… read more
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16. Granite Harbor
By: Peter Nichols
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Pet… read more
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17. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
By: Caleb Carr
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist, Caleb Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more
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18. Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me
By: Wilfred Reilly
4.00
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A college professor debunks the false liberal narratives which define much of America's school curr… read more
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19. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
20. Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
By: Glenn C. Loury
4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal ody… read more
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21. Trust Her
By: Flynn Berry
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Two sisters find they can't outrun their past in the riveting new thriller from the New York Times … read more
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22. A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy: Political Theory Guide (Guides to Major Disciplines)
By: Harvey Mansfield Jr.
3.94
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
Hidden within every political debate—in legislatures, on radio talk shows, and even in coffee shops… read more
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23. American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again
By: Yuval Levin
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A top conservative scholar reveals the Constitution’s remarkable power to repair our broken civic c… read more
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24. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
25. Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law
By: Neil Gorsuch
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply… read more
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26. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
By: Valerie Bauerlein
4.56
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s viol… read more
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27. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more
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28. Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays
By: Joseph Epstein
4.26
Format: 458 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein. America’… read more
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29. The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)
By: Louise Penny
4.44
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone ca… read more
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30. The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
By: Christine Rosen
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophie… read more
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31. Presumed Guilty (Presumed Innocent, #3)
By: Scott Turow
4.28
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Presumed Innocent, the #1 bestseller that redefined the legal thriller and i… read more
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