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One of Us
The Story of a Massacre in Norway and Its Aftermath On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik carried out a devastating attack in Norway, killing seventy-seven people—first with a bomb in central Oslo, then in a mass shooting at a youth camp on the...- $ 650.00
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Motherland
A Feminist History of Modern Russia from Revolution to Autocracy Award-winning journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the women who have lived, fought, and struggled within it—from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family...- $ 650.00
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Notes on Grief
Written after the sudden loss of her beloved father in the summer of 2020, Notes on Grief unfolds against the backdrop of a world transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Separated from her family during lockdowns, Adichie confronts the shock of his passing, the pain of...- $ 250.00
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The Woman in Me
With over two million copies sold, The Woman in Me is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir hailed as “moving” (Time), “powerful” (Los Angeles Times), and “radiant” (The New York Times). In June 2021, the world stopped to listen as Britney Spears spoke...- $ 600.00
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Too Much of Life
The Complete Crônicas In the rich banquet of Clarice Lispector’s work, her crônicas—short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces—are the delectable canapés. “I’ve learned enough from taxi drivers to fill a book. They really get around. Maybe I know more about Antonioni, or maybe they know more...- $ 560.00
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The Year of Reading Dangerously
How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life. An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty two books—a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our...- $ 500.00
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Lee Krasner
Long overshadowed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner is now recognized as a major figure in 20th-century art—a bold innovator whose work helped shape modernism. In Lee Krasner, acclaimed biographer Gail Levin offers a richly detailed and engrossing account of an artist...- $ 400.00
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Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
Spanning nearly the entire twentieth century—from women’s suffrage and the Great Depression to McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, and second-wave feminism—Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty tells the story of a woman who painted through every cultural shift and refused to conform...- $ 700.00
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Louise Bourgeois: An Intimate Portrait
Artist Biographies, Women in Art. Photographer Jean-François Jaussaud first met Louise Bourgeois in 1994 at her Brooklyn studio. Gaining her trust, however, was no simple matter—only after a probing interview into every detail of his life did she agree to a photo session. Their...- $ 850.00
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When I Grow Up
The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers. Based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies written by Eastern European Jewish teenagers on the eve of World War II—unearthed in 2017 from a church cellar in Lithuania—When I Grow Up brings to life...- $ 520.00
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Memorial Days
Many cultural and religious traditions make space for grief, urging the bereaved to withdraw from daily life and tend to their sorrow. But in today’s world, grief is often met not with stillness, but with bureaucracy and to-do lists. That’s exactly what confronted Geraldine...- $ 400.00
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The Liars' Club: 10th Anniversary Edition
A fierce, funny, and unforgettable memoir that redefined the genre. In The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr recounts her turbulent East Texas childhood with sharp wit, raw honesty, and unflinching love. Amid the oil refineries and cigarette smoke of a small town, Karr grows up...- $ 360.00
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Widow Basquiat
A lyrical and intimate memoir recounting the passionate and tumultuous relationship between Suzanne Mallouk and the renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1980s New York City, the narrative delves into Suzanne's life as a young Canadian runaway who becomes Basquiat's...- $ 400.00
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
In this profound memoir, Yiyun Li confronts the unimaginable grief of losing both of her teenage sons, Vincent and James, to suicide. Vincent died in 2017 at age 16, and James in 2024 at age 19. Li refrains from labeling her experience as "grieving,"...- $ 550.00
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Finding the Mother Tree
Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest A groundbreaking blend of science, memoir and nature writing, Finding the Mother Tree reveals the hidden, interconnected world of forests—and the woman who uncovered their secrets. Forest ecologist Suzanne Simard transformed how we understand trees. Her pioneering research...- $ 350.00
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Wayfarer
A journey through ancient trails, wild landscapes and the quiet power of walking toward healing. When seasoned adventurer Phoebe Smith set out to walk the world-famous Camino de Santiago, she didn’t expect to lose her way—not on the trail, but in her life. Leaving...- $ 450.00
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Words Without Music
A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here in Words Without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely...- $ 650.00
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The Light We Carry
In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering...- $ 450.00
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Cacophony of Bone
When Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland they were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year unlike any other. Cacophony of Bone maps the circle of that...- $ 550.00
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The Secret History of Here
The story of a single place in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has been occupied since prehistoric times. Walking this landscape you can feel the presence and see the marks of those who lived here before. But...- $ 500.00
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The Outrun
At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming...- $ 550.00
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Summer
The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer. The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses...- $ 500.00
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Spring
You don’t know what air is, and yet you breathe. You don’t know what sleep is, yet you sleep. You don’t know what night is, yet you lie in it. You don’t know what a heart is, yet your own heart beats steadily in...- $ 450.00
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How to Say Babylon
Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya...- $ 450.00
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Health and Safety
In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt had recently quit antidepressants for a more expansive world of psychedelic experimentation. From her apartment in Brooklyn, she began to...- $ 600.00
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Pageboy
Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page captures the universal human...- $ 400.00
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A Fine Brother
Flora Sandes, the only Western woman to officially serve as a soldier in World War I, became a national heroine when she fought alongside the Serbian Army and rose through its ranks. This compelling biography traces her remarkable journey—from her spirited almost tomboyish childhood...- $ 500.00
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My Lady Parts
In My Lady Parts, Doon shares her experience on stage, screen and in real life, examining how our culture still expects women to adhere to certain stereotypes - and punishes those who don't. Doon looks at the stories we are telling and asks: what...- $ 550.00
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Written in Water
Written in Water: Keats's Final Journey offers a meticulously researched and evocative account of the last five months in the life of the Romantic poet John Keats. Departing London in September 1820 with his friend Joseph Severn, Keats embarked on a journey to Italy in...- $ 500.00
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The Passage of Power
The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to 1964. It is an unparalleled account of the machinations behind both John Kennedy’s 1960 presidential nomination and his decision to offer Johnson the vice...- $ 450.00
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The Art of Rivalry
Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart of some of...- $ 500.00
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Splendid and the Vile
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons....- $ 350.00
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All That She Carried
In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faces the heartbreaking sale of her daughter, Ashley. In a desperate bid to protect her, Rose packs a cotton bag with a few precious items for her daughter—items that would be the last connection between...- $ 400.00
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