Putney by Sofka Zinovieff
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A young woman falls for a powerful older man in 1970’s Bohemian London.
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Cherry by Nico Walker
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A debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin by a veteran, drug addict, and criminal.
Read MoreA Life of My Own By Claire Tomalin
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A memoir of a life in literature by a professional biographer and literary editor.
Read MoreBall Lightning by Cixin Liu
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This science fiction adventure explores the single-minded search for answers with no consideration of the consequences.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “You couldn’t betray someone efficiently if you didn’t love them first”
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A multilayered, complex novel that explores how the sins of our fathers reflect upon us in an entirely new way.
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The Sea Queen by Linnea Hartsuyker
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Action, adventure, political intrigue and romance set in medieval Norway.
Read MoreThe Spy of Venice by Benet Brandreth
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A debut novel starring Shakespeare as swashbuckling hero.
Read MoreA Dog Named Doug by Karma Wilson & Matt Myers
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A pure, light-hearted romp that will delight both dog-loving children and the parents reading to them.
Read MoreThe Husband Hunters by Anne De Courcy
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De Courcy captures a great deal of the sad romance and sharp wit of the Gilded Age in these pages.
Read MoreExtreme Conservation by Joel Berger
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Berger goes to back-of-beyond places, observing animals as well as hardy groups of humans.
Read MoreCrashed by Adam Tooze
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The details of the financial meltdown are pursued in these pages with amazing energy and rigor.
Read MoreBen Goldfarb Q&A about BEAVERS!
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Open Letters talked with author Ben Goldfarb about this sometimes-maligned fixture of the natural world.
Read MoreThe Viking Wars by Max Adams
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Adams has written a lively-yet-scholarly modern epic history the tale deserves.
Read MoreThe Ascent of John Tyndall by Roland Jackson
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The first major biography of John Tyndall in over 70 years offers a detailed portrait of John Tyndall and his world.
Read MoreChesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift
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The chronicle of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay that is slowly disappearing.
Read MoreThe Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
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A thoroughly, exhaustively annotated edition of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel The Big Sleep.
Read MoreRome Resurgent by Peter Heather
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Heather explores which historical characterization of the era makes more sense: was Justinian a “romantic visionary” or a self-deluded crackpot?
Read MoreIndianapolis by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic
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This book is the most emphatic statement of Charles McVay's case ever made.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer
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This is a world-class trip with a lovable psychopath.
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