When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy…
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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world’s deadliest plagues: tuberculos…
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.
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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980… -
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique voice. These stories are time capsule gems, as poignant and startling today as they were when publis…
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Common Sense
Among the most influential authors and reformers of his age, Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was born in England but went on to play an important role in both the American and French Revolutions. In 1774, he…
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar transla…
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When We Cease to Understand the World
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021
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Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature
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Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and relevant.”
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring …
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Adventures in Opting Out: A Field Guide to Leading an Intentional Life
Opt out of expectations and live a more intentional life with this refreshing guide from the national bestselling author of The Year of Less.
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In the Time of the Butterflies
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In the Dream House
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Love & Virtue
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibi…
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