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Colter

The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had

by Rick Bass
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001

A prize-winning Montana writer’s tribute to “a brilliant and mischievous chocolate brown pointer that will transfix anyone who has ever loved a dog” (Publishers Weekly). Colter pairs one of America’s most treasured writers with our most treasured “best friend.” Colter, a German...
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by Cynthia Ozick
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006

A collection of essays on the joys of great literature from the New York Times–bestselling author and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.   One of America’s foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has won praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, historical,...
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The Last of the Doughboys

The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War

by Richard Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

“Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). “Richard Rubin has done something that will never be possible for anyone to do again. His interviews with the last American World War I veterans—who...
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Rules for Aging

A Wry and Witty Guide to Life

by Roger Rosenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001

Rule #1: It doesn’t matter. One of USA Today’s Best Self-Help Books of the Year: “Hilarious.” —People Prize-winning essayist Roger Rosenblatt has commented on some of the most important trends and events of our time in insightful columns in Time and discerning commentaries on PBS**Newshour...
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Dragonwyck

A Novel

by Anya Seton
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

A novel of seduction, mystery, and danger set in New York’s Hudson Valley in the nineteenth century, by the author of Foxfire. There was, on the Hudson, a way of life such as this, and there was a house not unlike Dragonwyck . . . In the spring of 1844, the Wells family receives a...
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by John Vaillant
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015

This “extraordinary” novel of one man’s border crossing reveals “a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the thirst to be free” (NPR). Héctor is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers’...
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A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman

Complete Short Stories

by Margaret Drabble
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011

Short fiction from “a fastidious chronicler of the vagaries of women’s lives in England since the early nineteen-sixties” (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker). In stories that explore marriage, female friendships, the English tourist abroad, love affairs with houses, peace demonstrations,...
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The Perfect Theory

A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

by Pedro G. Ferreira
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

“One of the best popular accounts of how Einstein and his followers have been trying to explain the universe for decades” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented...
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Pay Any Price

Greed, Power, and Endless War

by James Risen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

A New York Times Notable Book: A look at the hidden costs of America’s war on terror from “the finest national security reporter of this generation” (Newsweek). Since 9/11, the United States has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In...
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by George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1969

An insurance salesman desperately tries to recapture his youth in this “charming” comic novel by the iconic British author (The New York Times). George Bowling is having a crisis. Not a loud, unsightly one, but a small, desperate one. His days are occupied by an unfulfilling insurance job;...
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by George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1950

A pious young woman grapples with a loss of memory—and of faith—in this sharp, witty novel by the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. Dorothy is the daughter of the Reverend Charles Hare, rector of St. Athelstan’s in Depression-era Suffolk, England. She serves as a dutiful housekeeper, performs...
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by George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 1969

A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected. Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life—the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability....
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Facing Unpleasant Facts

Narrative Essays

by George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009

Essays by the author of 1984 on topics from “remembrances of working in a bookshop [to] recollections of fighting in the Spanish Civil War” (Publishers Weekly). George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that...
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by Antonia Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

A lively tale of “pitch-perfect suspense” set in eighteenth-century England—one of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Crime/Mystery Novels of the Year. Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows, accused of murder. Gentlemen don’t...
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