Ellmann's Joyce by Zachary Leader
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The story behind one of the great biographies of the 20th century
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The Mending of Broken Bones by Paul Lockhart
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An enthusiastic new book about the joys of algebra
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Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
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A new series of meditations on rivers from the author of “Underland”
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Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
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The celebrated biographer publishes an enormous book about Mark Twain
Read MoreHorace: Poet on a Volcano by Peter Stothard
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An invigorating new biography of the great Roman poet Horace
Read MoreThe Price of Victory by N. A. M. Rodger
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The author’s monumental three-volume history of the British Navy concludes
Read MoreThe Queen's Musician by Martha Jean Johnson
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A novel about the doomed musician caught up in the downfall of Anne Boleyn
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Scorched Earth by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
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A gripping and iconoclastic new history of the Second World War
Read MoreKing Tyrant by Mark Witton
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A wonderfully-illustrated book on the most famous dinosaur of them all
Read MoreDickens the Enchanter by Peter Conrad
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A worshipful new account of the genius of Charles Dickens
Read MorePompey the Great by Lee Frantanuono
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A new biography of ancient Rome’s famed military wunderkind
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Forgotten Vikings by Alex Harvey
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A new book excavates the kinder, gentler side of Vikings
Read MoreThe Cherokees in War and Peace by David Narrett
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A magisterial new history of the destruction of the great Cherokee nations
Read MoreLower than the Angels by Diarmaid MacCulloch
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A great historian of Christianity explores the intersections of faith and sex
Read MoreTurning to Birds by Lili Taylor
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Actress Lili Taylor recounts some of her adventures with birds
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