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  • Nine Innings

    The Anatomy of a Baseball Game

    by Daniel Okrent ...
    Brewers-Orioles, 6/10/82: "An astounding piece of sports journalism . . . the best book about the best game there is." — St. Louis Post-DispatchA timeless baseball classic, Nine Innings dissects a single baseball game played in June 1982—inning by inning, play by play. Daniel Okrent, New York Times–bestselling author and lifelong fan, chose as his subject a Milwaukee Brewers-Baltimore Orioles ... Read more

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  • Office Politics

    by Wilfrid Sheed ...
    “A masterpiece . . . One of the few genuinely comic novels since Lucky Jim.” —Elaine DundyEver since college, George Wren has dreamed of working at The Outsider, the prestigious weekly edited by his hero, the suave English expat Gilbert Twining. So when George sees a listing for a junior editor, he trades in his job at CBS for half the salary—and a ringside seat in the unexpectedly cutthroat arena ... Read more

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  • The House That George Built

    With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty

    by Wilfrid Sheed ...
    From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Big Spender,” from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen ran their fingers over piano keys, enticing unforgettable ... Read more

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    by Tom Rachman ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR • The Seattle Times • The Globe and Mail • Kirkus Reviews • Daily Mail • The Vancouver SunFrom the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past.Look in the back of the book for a conversation between Tom Rachman and J. R. ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of Sally

    Regarded as one of the most skilled humor writers ever to write in English, Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse's works of fiction usually pillory the British upper classes that represented the social milieu into which he was born. In The Adventures of Sally, Wodehouse turned his attention to a young American heiress whose sudden wealth brings with it an array of unforeseen problems. ... Read more

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  • Tomorrow Is Forever

    A Novel

    by Gwen Bristow ...
    A wife and mother grapples with love and loss in World War II–era Hollywood in a New York Times–bestselling author's emotional tour de force.For two decades, Elizabeth Herlong has been a devoted wife, supporting her husband as he built an empire in Hollywood's budding motion picture industry. But far from the bright glamour of her current life, World War II rages in Europe, forcing Elizabeth to ... Read more

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  • Snowed in with the Scoundrel

    A Steamy, Childhood Friends to Lovers Historical Romance

    by Kat Sterling ...
    She craves solitude…When a disastrous holiday party leaves Imogen Radford publicly jilted, she hightails it to her family’s remote cabin in the Cascade Mountains. But her desire to sulk alone with her photography equipment for Christmas is challenged by the arrival of a captivating half-naked scoundrel. A scoundrel who just so happens to be her former childhood best friend…He’s on the run…Tommy ... Read more

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  • An Evening of Long Goodbyes

    A Novel

    by Paul Murray ...
    Vastly entertaining and outright hilarious, Paul Murray’s debut heralds the arrival of a major new Irish talent. His protagonist is endearing and wildly witty–part P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster, with a cantankerous dash of A Confederacy of Dunces’ Ignatius J. Reilly thrown in. With its rollicking plot and colorful characters, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is a delightful and erudite comedy of ... Read more

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  • In Between the Sheets

    by Ian McEwan ...
    Darkly brilliant short fiction by the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Machines Like Me and Atonement.A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. Over the course of a weekend, a guilt-ridden father with his teenage ... Read more

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  • Daphne Deane

    Series series Love Endures
    Former classmates Keith Morrell and Daphne Deane meet again when he comes to check his family’s deserted house. But their lives—his full of wealth and society; hers focused on faith and simplicity—couldn’t be more different. Despite his engagement to another woman, they are drawn to each other in friendship, and Daphne finds herself pulled into a mystery at the old Morrell home. ... Read more

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  • The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

    by Jean Stafford ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    Pulitzer Prize-Winning Short Stories from a Distinctively American VoiceThe Collected Stories of Jean Stafford brings together the major short works of fiction by one of the most unique and compelling American stylists of her generation. In these stories, Stafford masterfully communicates the intricate details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom, and the desire to belong. With an ... Read more

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  • The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken

    by Conrad Aiken ...
    This indispensable volume, which includes the classic stories "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" and "Mr. Arcularis," is a testament to the dazzling artistry of one of the twentieth century's most influential writersA young woman passes through the countryside to visit her dying grandmother for a final time. A cabbie, exhausted from a long day's work, fights to get an intoxicated woman out of his taxi. A ... Read more

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