This biography of the emperor of Japan examines his formative years and how they shaped his character, his deft grasp of both the imperial system and modernity, his wielding of power and influence within his country, and that country's conflicts with major powers such as China and the United States.... Read more

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In this meticulously researched and ultimately explosive new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes readers across the globe to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophes together form a terrifyi... Read more

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On Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon, Joseph and Celice, married for almost thirty years, lie murdered in the dunes. The shocking particulars of their passing make up the arc of this courageous and haunting novel. The story of life, mortality and love, Being Dead confirms Jim Crace's place as one of our... Read more

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Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 presents all the lyric, short narrative, comic, meditative, nature, and erotic poetry the poet has chosen from the past forty-five years, including a section of new poems not found in his previous twenty-two books. It is an extraordinary literary event. Hayden Carr... Read more

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James Tate chose this debut collection for the 1999 Walt Whitman Award. Amid the squalor and violence of the subject matter, the beauty of language takes hold. ... Read more

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Jonathan Raban, an Englishman, explores the harrowing reality behind the dream of the American West. Using the accounts of homesteaders, he evokes the realities of their disappointments, exploding our idea of the West as a realm of stable, settled communities and revealing a much less wholesome land... Read more

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The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde--psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and someone whose life assumed an unbearably dramatic shape. ... Read more

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Alice Munro's 10th collection includes "Floating Bridge," about a woman with cancer who tires of her husband's solicitude; "Nettles," about an unexpected meeting between two former lovers; and "Comfort," about a difficult marriage that has managed to endure. A New York ... Read more

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A gripping, authoritative account of the men, women, science, drama and intrigue behind the single most important event of the century: the discovery of nuclear energy and construction of the atomic bomb. 32 pages of black-and-white photographs. ... Read more

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From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling ... Read more

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The first book in Oates’s famous trilogy that includes Expensive People and the National Book Award winner themIn her second novel, Joyce Carol Oates, author of many bestselling novels, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde, created one of her most memorable heroines, Clara, the beaut... Read more

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A National Book Critics Circle Award-winning classic documents the career of the World War II combat reporter while describing his coverage of the experiences of everyday soldiers, his receipt of a Pulitzer Prize, and his death during the Okinawa campaign. ... Read more

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The best-selling books in France during the waning decades of the ancien regime were not the outlawed works of great philosophers such as Voltaire and Rousseau, but other books, also banned by the government, written and sold "under the cloak." These formed a libertine literature that was ... Read more

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Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad. ... Read more

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In this comprehensive collection of essays, Martin Amis tackles such diverse subjects as Elvis, Margaret Thatcher, Andy Warhol, the Guinness Book of Records, Abraham Lincoln, poker, chess, and American movies. He also comments pungently on a variety of literary works, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, ... Read more

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Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” (The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kind... Read more

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Born into Liberia's privileged upper class, Helene Cooper's family were the descendants of the freed American slaves who first turned Liberia into a country. Her life took a drastic change in 1980 when Liberia plunged into a long and bloody civil war. Her families possessions were seized, her mother... Read more

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In this collection of literary essays, Vivian Gornick brilliantly interrogates her aesthetic involvement with such "great men" of literature as H.G. Wells, V.S. Naipaul, Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, and Phillip Roth. Neither a feminist screed not a summary indictment, THE MEN IN MY LIFE ca... Read more

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In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

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