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Dec.06.2011
The bestselling and beloved author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude delivers a searing love letter to the city that has inspired his finest work. Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in life—permanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party...
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Aug.23.2011
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A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence time cannot help but steal from our arms.
Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into the moment and exchange something of herself...
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Jan.23.2011
In her singular voice—humble, elegiac, practical—Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five.
Kingston's swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as she circles from present to past and back, from...
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Nov.05.2010
This sequel to The Georges and the Jewels (2009) is Smiley at her finest--detailed, nuanced, absorbing. Abby Lovitt's eighth-grade year starts out feeling less tumultuous than the year before: Her school life is more settled, her parents more at peace and Ornery George, a horse she struggled...
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Sep.20.2010
"Wake up, Muffy. We're back."
From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook—and designer Chip Kidd—comes a whole new take on the prep world that Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago.True Prep is a contemporary look at how the...
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Aug.31.2009
Jessica “Decca” Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: Born into the British aristocracy—one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters—she ran away to Spain as a teenager during the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill’s nephew, then came to America,...
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Jul.11.2009
An exercise in urban archeology, an original interpretive account of the golden age of the New York luxury apartment house. New York, New York reveals how New York was transformed architecturally, socially and psychologically from a provincial place to a great metropolis.
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Jun.17.2009
From the author of City Poet, the brilliant biography of Frank O’Hara, now comes a fascinating account of thriving forms of spirituality in what is being called a “post-denominational” age.
As the nineties were drawing to a close, Brad Gooch set out on a journey to explore traditional and...
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Apr.19.2009
What constitutes "home"? Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic slave trade, Phillips undertakes a personal quest to come to terms with dislocation and discontinuities that a diasporan history engenders in the soul of an individual.
Phillips initially journeys from the...
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