John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing exp... Read more

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On a remote outpost of the Galapagos, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent 20 years measuring the beaks of generations of finches--to prove that Darwin did not know the strength of this own theory. "Spark(s) no... Read more

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Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, examines chaos theory, which attempts to find patterns amid natural randomness. In CHAOS, the author tracks various experiments in a variety of scientific fields as the chance that once governed life gives way to complex schedules, tracking the... 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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The author of The Best and the Brightest explores the complex dynamics of foreign policy in post-Cold War America, profiling Washington decision makers and providing an analysis of the Clinton and Bush presidencies, and includes a new chapter on America's war against terrorism. ... Read more

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The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are le... Read more

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Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. I hate and--love. The sleepless body hammering a nail nails itself, hanging crucified.--from "Catullus: Excrucior" In Frank Bidart's collection of poems, the encounter with desire is the encounter with destiny. The first half... Read more

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This collection of 18 previously published short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin was selected as a New York Times Notable Book in 1996. ... Read more

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Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. A fast-paced narrative integrates the political, social and military events from the outbreak in Mexico... Read more

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An ambitious and dedicated Chinese doctor, Lin Kong finds himself torn between two very different women--the educated and dynamic nurse with whom he has fallen in love and the traditional, meek, and humble woman to whom his family married him when they were both very young. ... Read more

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This 1979 story of a budding American writer marks the second appearance of Nathan Zuckerman, Philip Roth's perennial alter ego. Here Zuckerman meets the famous writer E. I. Lonoff and falls in love with his research assistant--or possibly with Anne Frank, depending. THE GHOST WRITER is the first vo... Read more

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As ever more people crammed into ever more dilapidated quarters, the consequences of crowding became blatantly apparent--to both eye and nose. New York, it was widely agreed, was the filthiest urban center in the United States; Boston and Philadelphia gleamed by comparison. This dubious distinction,... Read more

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'A witty and energetic study of the ideas and passions of the Framers.' - New York Times Book Review'An important, comprehensive statement about the most fundamental period in American history. It deals authoritatively with topics no student of American can afford to ignore.' - Harvey Mansfield, aut... Read more

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Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his fathers cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin... Read more

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The short sentences in these quirky prose poems build to describe the absurdisms of a world wracked by war and tragedy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1990. ... Read more

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The Metamorphoses is a treasury of classical myths, filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid (43 B.C-A.D.17). ... Read more

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Examines the plans and campaigns of the seven candidates in the year leading up to the presidential election of 1960 ... Read more

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No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankinds most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail.Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature, all the ... Read more

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In his eighth book of poems, Williams continues to develop the possibilities of the long line for which he is so well known, but he includes some short lines here as well, recalling the work of his early books. The poems here often investigate consciousness--both in the psychological sense of the wo... Read more

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A collection of poems from the author's earlier books combined with a dozen new poems interweave memory and history. ... Read more

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