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Hardback. Condizione: Fair. Lynn Steger Strong paints a portrait of familial love that is real, visceral, and all the more dangerous for being unconditional. Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. From Lincoln Center's inaugural poet-in-residence comes this unflinching collection that intricately mines the experience of being a Black woman in America.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Lynn Steger Strong paints a portrait of familial love that is real, visceral, and all the more dangerous for being unconditional. Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Ten years ago, Eva Maria Staal kept a gun in her purse. It was a present from her boss, Jimmy Liu, the international arms dealer extraordinaire with a taste for high-class male escorts. Together, Jimmy and his devoted assistant traveled the world's most dangerous hotspots, closing deals with ruthless warlords and corrupt generals, and trading Stinger missiles in Karachi, AK-47s in Chechnya, and hollow-point bullets in Islamabad. But burdened by her conscience, Eva Maria finally got out, married an optometrist, and had a baby. Now, assailed with memories of her secret life, she must reconcile her suburban present with a repressed but ineradicable past, one that blasts a hole so deep she doesn't know how to love her own daughter. Writing with a knowing intelligence only an insider could provide, this pseudonymous author has created a debut with remarkable intensity that examines the razor-thin line separating those who are drowned from those who are saved.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This rare celestial event--a total solar eclipse--offered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar system's most enduring riddles, and it prompted a clutch of enterprising scientists to brave the wild frontier in a grueling race to the Rocky Mountains. Acclaimed science journalist David Baron, long fascinated by eclipses, re-creates this epic tale of ambition, failure, and glory in a narrative that reveals as much about the historical trajectory of a striving young nation as it does about those scant three minutes when the blue sky blackened and stars appeared in mid-afternoon.Lauded as a "sweeping, compelling" (Wall Street Journal) work of science history, American Eclipse tells the story of the three tenacious and brilliant scientists who raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe the rare event. Dedicating years of "exhaustive research to reconstruct a remarkable chapter of U.S. history" (Scientific American), award-winning writer David Baron brings to three-dimensional life these competitors--the planet-hunter James Craig Watson, pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell, and the ambitious young inventor Thomas Edison--to thrillingly re-create the fierce jockeying of nineteenth-century American astronomy. With spellbinding accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, the mythologized age of the Wild West comes alive as never before. An "enthralling" (Daniel Kevles) and magnificent portrayal of America's dawn as a scientific superpower, American Eclipse depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Longlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Award for Business Book of the Year Breaking the last feminist taboo--once and for all.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A highly inventive novel of ideas written in the rich European tradition, The Capital transports readers to the cobblestoned streets of twenty-first-century Brussels. Chosen as the European Union?s symbolic capital in 1958, this elusive setting has never been examined so intricately in literature. Translated with "zest, pace and wit" (Spectator) by Jamie Bulloch, Robert Menasse's The Capital plays out the effects of a fiercely nationalistic ?union.? Recalling the Balzacian conceit of assembling a vast parade of characters whose lives conspire to form a driving central plot, Menasse adapts this technique with modern sensibility to reveal the hastily assembled capital in all of its eccentricities. We meet, among others, Fenia Xenopoulou, a Greek Cypriot recently ?promoted? to the Directorate-General for Culture. When tasked with revamping the boring image of the European Commission with the Big Jubilee Project, she endorses her Austrian assistant Martin Sussman?s idea to proclaim Auschwitz as its birthplace?of course, to the horror of the other nation states. Meanwhile, Inspector Émile Brunfaut attempts to solve a gritty murder being suppressed at the highest level; Matek, a Polish hitman who regrets having never become a priest, scrambles after taking out the wrong man; and outraged pig farmers protest trade restrictions as a brave escapee squeals through the streets. These narratives and more are masterfully woven, revealing the absurdities?and real dangers?of a fracturing Europe. A tour de force from one of Austria?s most esteemed novelists, The Capital is a mordantly funny and piercingly urgent saga of the European Union, and an aerial feat of sublime world literature.…

Hardback. Condizione: Like New. ?What a treat, what an absolute delight this warm, funny novel is. ? [Berlinski]?s written a sharp analysis of something dark, and he?s made it a pure pleasure to read.??Constance Grady, Vox ?The journey of Mona Acts Out is insightfully, entertainingly multitudinous."?Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times "Extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny.??Ann Levin, Associated Press "Rhapsodic and enlightening about Shakespeare, full of fun on every page, Mischa Berlinski?s Mona Acts Out is an early literary delight of 2025."?Marion Winik, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Sharp-witted and weighty. ?Berlinski deserves a standing ovation for this bravura performance."?Publishers Weekly.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. ?What a treat, what an absolute delight this warm, funny novel is. ? [Berlinski]?s written a sharp analysis of something dark, and he?s made it a pure pleasure to read.??Constance Grady, Vox ?The journey of Mona Acts Out is insightfully, entertainingly multitudinous."?Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times "Extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny.??Ann Levin, Associated Press "Rhapsodic and enlightening about Shakespeare, full of fun on every page, Mischa Berlinski?s Mona Acts Out is an early literary delight of 2025."?Marion Winik, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Sharp-witted and weighty. ?Berlinski deserves a standing ovation for this bravura performance."?Publishers Weekly.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with Biloxi, a tender, gritty tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The Washington Post Notable Non-Fiction of 2013 I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book.Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page review.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. The Washington Post Notable Non-Fiction of 2013 I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book.Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page review.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The remarkable untold story of a miracle drug, the forgotten pioneer who discovered it and the fight to bring lithium to the masses.

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. Challenging a purely mechanistic view of human existence, Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Challenging a purely mechanistic view of human existence, Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Challenging a purely mechanistic view of human existence, Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate. When plans for a new hotel threaten their village, Margot sees not only an opportunity for her own financial independence but also perhaps a chance to admit a shocking secret: her forbidden love for another woman. As they face the impending destruction of their community, each woman--fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves--must confront long-hidden scars. From a much-heralded new writer, Here Comes the Sun offers a dramatic glimpse into a vibrant, passionate world most outsiders see simply as paradise.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate. When plans for a new hotel threaten their village, Margot sees not only an opportunity for her own financial independence but also perhaps a chance to admit a shocking secret: her forbidden love for another woman. As they face the impending destruction of their community, each woman--fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves--must confront long-hidden scars. From a much-heralded new writer, Here Comes the Sun offers a dramatic glimpse into a vibrant, passionate world most outsiders see simply as paradise.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged American democracy through redistricting.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged American democracy through redistricting.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. One of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. One of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged American democracy through redistricting.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. In the tradition of The Second Machine Age and Superintelligence comes the first book on the next internet: the metaverse.

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. In the tradition of The Second Machine Age and Superintelligence comes the first book on the next internet: the metaverse.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged American democracy through redistricting.

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged American democracy through redistricting.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. In the tradition of The Second Machine Age and Superintelligence comes the first book on the next internet: the metaverse.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. An intimate account of Bernie Sanders as we have never seen him before, revealing the man behind the enigmatic progressive icon.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The mesmerising story of Juneteenths integral importance to American historytold by a Pulitzer Prizewinning historian.