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The New Republic
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver—author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, now a major motion picture—probes the mystery of charisma in a razor-sharp new novel that teases out the intimate...
by Sujata Massey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks to her parents, she does.) Her independence is threatened however, when...
Brilliance and Fire
A Biography of Diamonds
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
From the author of Women from the Ankle Down comes a lively cultural biography of diamonds, which explores our society’s obsession with the world’s most brilliant gemstone and the real-world characters who make them shine.
“A diamond is forever.” Who among us doesn’t recognize this...
Miss You
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
"If ever a couple was ‘meant to be,’ it’s Tess and Gus. This is such a witty, poignant, and uplifting story of two lives crisscrossing over the years, with near miss after near miss. . . . I couldn’t put it down."—Sophie Kinsella
A wryly romantic debut novel with echoes of One Day...
The Great Gasbag
An A-to-Z Study Guide to Surviving Trump World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
One of our most beloved comedians, the brilliantly witty and outspoken star of The View, hits the most unpopular President ever elected where it hurts—and makes us laugh and cheer—in this hilarious alphabetical guide to everything that’s wrong with the "Orange One," Donald Trump.
Put...
Bard of the Deal
The Poetry of Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
From award-winning reporter and author of Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld comes this collection of poems mined from the interviews, speeches, and tweets of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The Vicious Ones
I was attacked viciously
By...
Fante
A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." —New York Times
From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacy—one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road...
All Things Possible
Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In this full and frank memoir—a personal story of duty, family, justice, politics and resilience—New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reflects on his rise, fall, and rise in politics, and recounts his defining personal and political moments and tough but necessary lessons he has learned along the way.
With 16-page of color photos.
The Education of Eva Moskowitz
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
From Eva Moskowitz, the outspoken founder and CEO of the charter school Success Academy, comes a frank, feisty memoir about the rough-and-tumble battles to reform America’s education system.
Eva Moskowitz is a fighter with a reputation for having "sharp elbows"— if that’s a...
Radical
Fighting to Put Students First
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
In Radical, Michelle Rhee, a fearless and pioneering advocate for education reform, draws on her own life story and delivers her plan for better American schools.
Rhee’s goal is to ensure that laws, leaders, and policies are making students—not adults—our top priority, and she outlines...
Behemoth
The History of the Elephant in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In the two hundred years since their arrival in America, elephants have worked on farms, mills, mines, and railroads, in Hollywood, and in professional baseball. They've contributed to the national discourse on civil rights, immigration, politics, and capitalism. They became so deeply ingrained in...
Covenant of Liberty
The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Today's Tea Party activists are motivated by the same ideological desires as our nation's Founding Fathers, argues Michael Patrick Leahy in this illuminating work of political history.
Today's political class—in both parties and at all levels of government—shows a blatant disregard for...
The Nordic Theory of Everything
In Search of a Better Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children.
Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly...
The Season
The Secret Life of Palm Beach and America's Richest Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Palm Beach is known around the world as the most wealthy, glamorous, opulent, decadent, self-indulgent, sinful spot on earth. With their beautiful 3.75 square-island constantly in the media glare, Palm Beachers protect their impossibly rich society from outside scrutiny with vigilant police, ubiquitous...