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The Year of Magical Thinking

National Book Award Winner

by Joan Didion ...

Series series Vintage International
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America’s most iconic writersOne of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Guardian’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyJoan Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America’s most iconic writersOne of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Guardian’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyJoan Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever
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The Big Sea

An Autobiography

by Langston Hughes ...

Series series American Century
With an introduction by Hughes' award-winning biographer, this memoir is "excellent reading . . . remarkable as a self portrait and a record" ( New York Times).Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade—Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the ... Read more

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With an introduction by Hughes' award-winning biographer, this memoir is "excellent reading . . . remarkable as a self portrait and a record" ( New York Times).Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade—Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the
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These Precious Days

Essays

by Ann Patchett ...

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays."The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann ... Read more

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The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays."The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann
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Why Orwell Matters

by Christopher Hitchens ...

“Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century.”—The Boston GlobeIn this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. True to his contrarian style, Hitchens is both admiring and aggressive, sympathetic yet critical, taking true ... Read more

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“Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century.”—The Boston GlobeIn this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. True to his contrarian style, Hitchens is both admiring and aggressive, sympathetic yet critical, taking true
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Memorial Days

A Memoir

by Geraldine Brooks ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable Book of 2025 · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A Time Best Memoir of 2025 · Named a Best Book of 2025 by NPR, People, Air Mail, Bookreporter, and Publishers Weekly“Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace as she comes to terms with the ongoing nature of ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable Book of 2025 · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A Time Best Memoir of 2025 · Named a Best Book of 2025 by NPR, People, Air Mail, Bookreporter, and Publishers Weekly“Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace as she comes to terms with the ongoing nature of
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story

A Life of David Foster Wallace

by D. T. Max ...

The acclaimed New York Times–bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)In the first biography of the iconic David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max paints the portrait of a man, self-conscious, obsessive and struggling to find meaning. If Wallace was right when he declared he was “frightfully and thoroughly conventional,” it ... Read more

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The acclaimed New York Times–bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)In the first biography of the iconic David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max paints the portrait of a man, self-conscious, obsessive and struggling to find meaning. If Wallace was right when he declared he was “frightfully and thoroughly conventional,” it
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The Rigor of Angels

Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

by William Egginton ...

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind—and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world“[A] mind-expanding book. . . . Elegantly written.” —The New York Times“A remarkable ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind—and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world“[A] mind-expanding book. . . . Elegantly written.” —The New York Times“A remarkable
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In Gratitude

by Jenny Diski ...

National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable Book of the Year"Transcendently disobedient, the most existence-affirming and iconoclastic defense a writer could mount against her own extinction." --Heidi Julavits, New York Times Book ReviewFrom "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine) comes a breathtaking memoir about... ... Read more

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National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable Book of the Year"Transcendently disobedient, the most existence-affirming and iconoclastic defense a writer could mount against her own extinction." --Heidi Julavits, New York Times Book ReviewFrom "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine) comes a breathtaking memoir about...
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Under Magnolia

A Southern Memoir

by Frances Mayes ...

A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and ... Read more

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A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and
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Bay of Spirits

A Love Story

by Farley Mowat ...

In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundland’s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling in love with a people and a place, Mowat also met the woman who would be the great love of his life ... Read more

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In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundland’s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling in love with a people and a place, Mowat also met the woman who would be the great love of his life
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The Unknown Kerouac (LOA #283)

Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings

by Jack Kerouac ...

Translated by Jean-Christophe Cloutier ...

Series Book 4 - Library of America Jack Kerouac Edition
This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings shines new light on the On the Road author’s life, from his French Canadian childhood to his meteoric rise to literary fameEdited and published with unprecedented access to the Kerouac archives, The Unknown Kerouac presents two lost novels, The Night Is My Woman and Old Bull in the Bowery, which Kerouac wrote in French during the ... Read more

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This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings shines new light on the On the Road author’s life, from his French Canadian childhood to his meteoric rise to literary fameEdited and published with unprecedented access to the Kerouac archives, The Unknown Kerouac presents two lost novels, The Night Is My Woman and Old Bull in the Bowery, which Kerouac wrote in French during the
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Sakıncalı Amiral

by Toygun Atilla ...

29 Ocak 2013 günü Türkiye'de herkesi şaşırtan bir olay oldu. Donanma Komutanı Oramiral Nusret Güner silah arkadaşlarının hukuksuzca tutuklanmasına daha fazla seyirci kalmamak için istifa etmişti. Güner'in istifası çok tartışıldı. Nasıl tartışılmasın, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nde ilk kez bir Donanma Komutanı istifa ediyordu. Oramiral Güner istifa ettikten sonra da doğru bildiklerini söylemeye devam etti ... Read more

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29 Ocak 2013 günü Türkiye'de herkesi şaşırtan bir olay oldu. Donanma Komutanı Oramiral Nusret Güner silah arkadaşlarının hukuksuzca tutuklanmasına daha fazla seyirci kalmamak için istifa etmişti. Güner'in istifası çok tartışıldı. Nasıl tartışılmasın, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nde ilk kez bir Donanma Komutanı istifa ediyordu. Oramiral Güner istifa ettikten sonra da doğru bildiklerini söylemeye devam etti
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The File

A Personal History

by Timothy Garton Ash ...

"Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past." --The New York TimesIn 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later Timothy Garton Ash--who was by then famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe--returned. This ... Read more

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"Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past." --The New York TimesIn 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later Timothy Garton Ash--who was by then famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe--returned. This
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Into Thin Air

by Jon Krakauer ...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray.**“A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism.”—**PeopleA Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years</stro... ... Read more

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray.**“A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism.”—**PeopleA Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years</stro...
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Adieux

A Farewell to Sartre

by Simone De Beauvoir ...

Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartre’s last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir about his life and work, is more than just a philosophical examination. It is also a personal dialogue of ... Read more

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Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartre’s last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir about his life and work, is more than just a philosophical examination. It is also a personal dialogue of
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Traveling Mercies

Some Thoughts on Faith

by Anne Lamott ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes a personal, wise, very funny, and “life-affirming” book (People) that shows us how to find meaning and hope through shining the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life."Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same breath." —San ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes a personal, wise, very funny, and “life-affirming” book (People) that shows us how to find meaning and hope through shining the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life."Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same breath." —San
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A Bunker in Kyiv

The Astonishing Story of the People's Army Defying Putin from respected Australian journalist and author of Balcony Over Jerusalem

by John Lyons ...

A riveting account of courageous resistance from the bestselling author of Balcony Over JerusalemLonglisted for the 2025 Walkley AwardShortlisted for Best Non Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026On 24 February 2022, residents of Kyiv, Ukraine, woke to the sound of explosions and gunfire as Russian forces attempted to seize Hostomel Airport. It marked the beginning of the first land war in Europe ... Read more

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A riveting account of courageous resistance from the bestselling author of Balcony Over JerusalemLonglisted for the 2025 Walkley AwardShortlisted for Best Non Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026On 24 February 2022, residents of Kyiv, Ukraine, woke to the sound of explosions and gunfire as Russian forces attempted to seize Hostomel Airport. It marked the beginning of the first land war in Europe
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

by Hunter S. Thompson ...

A fiftieth-anniversary edition of the cult classic of gonzo journalism, hailed as “the best book on the dope decade” (The New York Times Book Review), featuring Ralph Steadman’s original drawings and an introduction by Caity WeaverThe inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro“A scorching epochal sensation!”—Tom WolfeFirst ... Read more

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A fiftieth-anniversary edition of the cult classic of gonzo journalism, hailed as “the best book on the dope decade” (The New York Times Book Review), featuring Ralph Steadman’s original drawings and an introduction by Caity WeaverThe inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro“A scorching epochal sensation!”—Tom WolfeFirst
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True Crime

A Memoir

by Patricia Cornwell ...

Instant New York Times bestseller!#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede it: her own.“Let’s start, and end, with this: Patricia Cornwell’s autobiography, TRUE CRIME, could be the best book she’s ever written. And I’ve read them all!” **—**James Patter... ... Read more

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Instant New York Times bestseller!#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede it: her own.“Let’s start, and end, with this: Patricia Cornwell’s autobiography, TRUE CRIME, could be the best book she’s ever written. And I’ve read them all!” **—**James Patter...
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Paula

by Isabel Allende ...

Un autorretrato de insólita emotividad al tiempo que exquisita recreación de la sensibilidad de las mujeres de nuestra época.«Aquí está todo lo que debe tener un libro: oído, perspectiva, cabeza, corazón y una humanidad sin límites.»The New York TimesCualquier libro de Isabel Allende es un acontecimiento. Paula lo es especialmente porque se trata del más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de ... Read more

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Un autorretrato de insólita emotividad al tiempo que exquisita recreación de la sensibilidad de las mujeres de nuestra época.«Aquí está todo lo que debe tener un libro: oído, perspectiva, cabeza, corazón y una humanidad sin límites.»The New York TimesCualquier libro de Isabel Allende es un acontecimiento. Paula lo es especialmente porque se trata del más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de
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Mother Mary Comes to Me

by Arundhati Roy ...

Named One of The New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten Books of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography | Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Nominated for the Women's Prize for NonfictionOne of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (The Wall Street Journal) from the legendary author of The ... Read more

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Named One of The New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten Books of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography | Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Nominated for the Women's Prize for NonfictionOne of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (The Wall Street Journal) from the legendary author of The
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Simple Passion

by Annie Ernaux ...

Translated by Tanya Leslie ...

**WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable Book**In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable Book**In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event,
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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

by Philip K. Dick ...

A glimpse into the mind of the bestselling science fiction author through a collection of his personal, metaphysical, religious, visionary writings.Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of ... Read more

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A glimpse into the mind of the bestselling science fiction author through a collection of his personal, metaphysical, religious, visionary writings.Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of
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Dante

A Life

by R. W. B. Lewis ...

Series series Penguin Lives
An insightful biography of Florence?s famous sonAcclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and death, the grand master of dramatic narrative and allegory, and his monumental search for ultimate truth in ... Read more

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An insightful biography of Florence?s famous sonAcclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and death, the grand master of dramatic narrative and allegory, and his monumental search for ultimate truth in
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