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Grove at Home: January 24-30
…an attempted coup was a strangely stupefying and passive experience.” Continue reading… Will Self reads from Phone Today is the 106th anniversary of the first transcontinental phone call placed…
Liberty’s First Crisis
by Charles SlackThe tumultuous early years of the United States are brought to life in this gripping account of the Sedition Act and its victims, including a firebrand congressman, a famous muckraking…
Neither Snow Nor Rain
by Devin LeonardFew institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Post Office, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history.
Palden Gyatso
…the United States to call attention to the plight of the hundreds of political prisoners still behind bars in Tibet. In 1995 he gave evidence at the United Nations Commission…
The Breaking of Nations
by Robert Cooper“Essentially an attempt to bridge the ideological divide between hard and soft power. Both, he suggests in this short, elegant collection of essays, are necessary in today’s messy world.” –The…
Octavio Paz
The Nobel Prize winning Octavio Paz was born in 1914, near Mexico City. His family was forced into exile, which they served in the United States, after the assassination of…
Saddam Hussein
by Efraim Karsh“Karsh and Rautsi have set a standard for evidence and analytical rigor that other biographers will be hard-pressed to match… Not only do the full documentation and precise style reflect…
House Blood
by Mike Lawson“Another page-turner brimming with authentic Washington, D.C., detail and distinctive, engaging characters.” —Library Journal…
The Adventures of Lucky Pierre
by Robert Coover“An embodiment of a spectacle-obsessed entertainment culture that seems horribly like our own. . . . It delivers the ancient narrative satisfaction of seeing a character deal with the inexplicabilities…
Turn of Mind
by Alice LaPlante“[Like] Anna Quindlen’s Every Last One—a dread-filled, unputdownable page-turner . . . Skillfully written in the memory-loss first person, the book combines murder mystery with family drama, bringing new meaning…
