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Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPoems selected from Verlaine's first six books of verse are presented in the original French as well as in English... -
![The Girl Puzzle: A Story of Nellie Bly by Kate Braithwaite]()
The Girl Puzzle: A Story of Nellie Bly by Kate Braithwaite
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe vowed never to put her safety in the hands of a man. But down to her last dime and offered the chance of a job of a lifetime at the New York World, twenty-three-year old Elizabeth Cochrane agrees to get herself admitted to Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum and report on conditions from the inside... -
![Midnight Sweatlodge by Waubgeshig Rice]()
Midnight Sweatlodge by Waubgeshig Rice
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMidnight Sweatlodge tells the tale of family members, friends and strangers who gather together to partake in this ancient healing ceremony. Each person seeks wisdom and insight to overcome their pain and hardship. Through their stories we get glimpses into their lives that are both tearful and true... -
![A Ilha das Trevas by José Rodrigues dos Santos]()
A Ilha das Trevas by José Rodrigues dos Santos
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPaulino da Conceição é um timorense com um terrível segredo. Assistiu, juntamente com a família, à saída dos portugueses de Timor-Leste e a todos os acontecimentos que se seguiram, tornando-se um mero peão nas circunstâncias que mediaram a invasão indonésia de 1975 e o referendo de 1999 que deu a independência ao país... -
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![Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold]()
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhat do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries... -
![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis by Sam Anderson]()
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis by Sam Anderson
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAward-winning journalist Sam Anderson’s long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny.Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims... -
![The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors by Charles Krauthammer]()
The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors by Charles Krauthammer
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCreated and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy... -
![Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin]()
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsStudies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater... -
![Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn]()
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWith stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared...Categorized as:
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![Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin]()
Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe riveting story of four men—Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige—whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond... -
![Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives by Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy]()
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives by Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in The New York Times archives. None of them were published by The Times--until now. UNSEEN uncovers these never-before published photographs and tells the stories behind them.It all started with Times photo editor Darcy Eveleigh discovering dozens of these photographs... -
![Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell, David Remnick]()
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell, David Remnick
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSaloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old “seafoodetarian” who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for The New Yorker and in four books—McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr... -
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![Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach by Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak]()
Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach by Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAutorka Służących do wszystkiego wraca do tematu wiejskich kobiet, ale tym razem to opowieść zza drugiej strony drzwi chłopskiej chałupy. Podczas, gdy Maryśki i Kaśki wyruszają do miast, by usługiwać w pańskich domach, na wsiach zostają ich siostry i matki: harujące od świtu do nocy gospodynie, folwarczne wyrobnice, mamki, dziewki pracujące w bogatszych gospodarstwach... -
![Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos]()
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy—or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation... -
![Für Elise by Magda Szabó]()
Für Elise by Magda Szabó
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOstensibly, however, descriptions of her youth have been missing in her autobiographical oeuvre. Now, at long last, a unique confession has been in the spirit of St. Augustine and even Rousseau, Szabo opens all the locks and unleashes an incisive story of her life--peopled with family, friends, and teachers--and the surrounding world from 1927 to 1935... -
![Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill]()
Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA rare and fascinating portrait of the American presidency from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November .Secret Service agent Clint Hill brings history intimately and vividly to life as he reflects on his seventeen years protecting the most powerful office in the nation. Hill walked alongside Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F... -
![Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City by Julia Wertz]()
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City by Julia Wertz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA New York Times Notable Book of 2017!Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's... -
![A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture by Virginia McAlester]()
A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture by Virginia McAlester
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNow in paperback: the fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses... -
![Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad]()
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties--when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives reenergized American rock with punk rock's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential... -
![Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas]()
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston. The book traces the history of three families: the working-class African-American Twymons, the working-class Irish McGoffs, and the middle-class Yankee Divers... -
![Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather]()
Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTales from the front lines of 60 years of television.Emmy Award winner and former CBS News anchor Dan Rather brings his unforgettable staged performance, Stories of a Lifetime, to the Minetta Lane Theatre, where it will be recorded live for Audible Theater... -
![High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen]()
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJoining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most iconic public housing project...Categorized as:
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![Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Małgorzata Rejmer]()
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Małgorzata Rejmer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA polyphonic account of life in Albania under Enver Hoxha's regime, arguably the most brutal totalitarian state of allAfter breaking ties with Yugoslavia, the USSR and then China, Enver Hoxha believed that Albania could become a self-sufficient bastion of communism... -
![La llamada: Un retrato by Leila Guerriero]()
La llamada: Un retrato by Leila Guerriero
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEsta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana.A fines de los sesenta, con trece años, la argentina Silvia Labayru era una adolescente tímida, lectora, amante de los animales, entusiasta de John F. Kennedy, hija de una familia de militares que incluía a su padre, miembro de la Fuerza Aérea y piloto civil... -
![Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas]()
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSince its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior... -
![Ilf & Petrov's American Road Trip PB by Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov]()
Ilf & Petrov's American Road Trip PB by Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper "Pravda." They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera... -
![The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich, João Silva]()
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich, João Silva
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMost people, upon hearing gunfire, would run away and hide. Conflict photojournalists have the opposite reaction: they actually look for trouble, and when they find it, get as close as possible and stand up to get the best shot... -
![Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum]()
Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it...
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