“POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . . THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER.”–The New York TimesMacon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to c... Read more

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Robert Caro's study reveals Robert Moses as a head of a state agency who seemed to wield more power than most elected officials, and who forever changed the public face of New York City. Moses is credited with building Lincoln Center, the United Nations, and Shea Stadium, among other projects. A fas... Read more

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Mickey Sabbath, an aging, misanthropic puppeteer, embarks on a journey into his checkered past when his long-time mistress dies. His journey turns into succession of disasters. And while Sabbath wants to die, he still has too much life in him to succumb. ... Read more

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A new edition of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning portrait of Vietnam seeks to inform readers on its cultural traditions, political and religious conflicts, and historical events as experienced by its citizens, what the author believes to be American missteps that contributed to cu... Read more

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DEEP SOUTHS tells the stories of three southern regions from Reconstruction to World War II: the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, the eastern Piedmont of Georgia, and the Georgia Sea Islands and Atlantic coast. Though these regions initially shared the histories and populations we associate with the idea of... Read more

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In 1864, thirty-three thousand Yankee prisoners of war suffer the horrors of imprisonment at the Confederate prison of Andersonville. ... Read more

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What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? In this "brilliant, audacious book" ... Read more

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The epic struggle between Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill jumps to life from the pages of Arthur Herman's double biography. Detailing the lives of two of the most significant historical figures of the 20th century would be challenging enough, but Herman's fusion of the two stories is masterly: ... Read more

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Jon Meacham's account of the White House years of Andrew Jackson shows him to be a man of principle as well as of passion. Even in those days, says Meacham, Washington was a hardball town, and he recounts how factions, rivalries, and revenge-taking sometimes ruled the day. But Meacham shows, through... Read more

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James Madison was the finest democratic theorist that the United States has ever produced. His was the pivotal philosophical role in framing the Constitution and establishing the principles on which a wholly new form of government was to be based. Yet this widely informed and profoundly original thi... Read more

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This in-depth pre-history of the 9/11 bombings focuses on Osama bin Laden, his fellow leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the rise of al-Qaeda, including its sources in the writings of the philosopher Sayyid Qutb, who visited New York City in the 1940s and was repelled by what he saw as Western decadence.... Read more

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A man is murdered on an Illinois farm in the 1920s. Two boys, one the son of the killer, end their friendship. Fifty years later, the other boy, now a man, attempts to reconstruct the events leading up to the murder, and to understand its effect on the lives of everyone involved. Like so many of Wil... Read more

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A major collection of Carvers short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988. ... Read more

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Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption. ... Read more

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A panoramic history of the conflict between England and America highlights the political and personal aspects of the colonial struggle for independence, provides a defintive overview of the events leading up to the Revolution, and discusses the major leaders, campaigns, battles, and repercussions of... Read more

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It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused wide-spread unemployment. Stampp's intensely focused look at this pivotal year illuminates the forces at work and the mood of the nation as it plummeted towar... Read more

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In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper now tells her story with courage, candor, and dignity. "Captivating . . . distinguished b... Read more

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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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