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Fiction

The Most Fun We Ever Had

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The Most Fun We Ever Had

Claire Lombardo

THE OFFSPRING April 15, 2000 Sixteen years earlier Other people overwhelmed her. Strange, perhaps, for a woman who’d added four beings to the universe of her own reluctant volition, but a fact nonetheless: Marilyn rued the inconvenient presence of bodies,…Read more

Books & Ideas

The Choice: Embrace the Possible

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The Choice: Embrace the Possible

Edith Eva Eger

They come in the dark. They pound on the door, they yell. Does my father let them in, or do they force their way into our apartment? Are they German soldiers, or nyilas? I can’t make sense out of…Read more

Science & Tech

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Mark Kurlansky

For Europeans, the known world doubled in the course of the sixteenth century. The Dutch had two possibilities to offer the English Puritan refugees : the tiny, well-protected port on the tip of the island of Manhattan, or Guiana, on…Read more

Mysteries & Thrillers

Missing and Endangered (Joanna Brady Series #19)

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Missing and Endangered (Joanna Brady Series #19)

J. A. Jance

When Joanna returned to the school’s parking lot, she found two Interceptors parked side by side. One was a year older than hers and came with Sierra Vista markings. Frank Montoya, in full uniform, stood leaning against the front bumper…Read more

Books & Ideas

Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

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Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

Sonia Purnell

The Pain and the Pride 1914–15 No one could have foretold Clementine’s crisis but with hindsight it is astonishing that Winston failed to bring his family back to London as soon as war broke out—not least because he had written…Read more

Fiction

Lies She Told: A Novel

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Lies She Told: A Novel

Cate Holahan

Her first name is Colleen. I mentally repeat it as I watch her exit a Chinatown dumpling shop and return to her unmarked police car. What you having for lunch, Officer Colleen? Not going to chase that speeder, Officer Colleen?…Read more

Books & Ideas

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Know My Name

Chanel Miller

THE HEARING WAS set for September 27. I had three weeks. In the last eight months I’d never spoken the full story aloud. If anything, I’d become less and less ready, my anxiety swollen inside me. I was standing at…Read more

Science & Tech

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

David Deutsch

The scientific revolution was part of a wider intellectual revolution, the Enlightenment, which also brought progress in other fields, especially moral and political philosophy, and in the institutions of society. Unfortunately, the term ‘the Enlightenment’ is used by historians…Read more

Books & Ideas

The Origins of Totalitarianism

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The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

MANY STILL consider it an accident that Nazi ideology centered around antisemitism and that Nazi policy, consistently and uncompromisingly, aimed at the persecution and finally the extermination of the Jews. Only the horror of the final catastrophe, and even more…Read more

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