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1 - Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

Ada Calhoun - ‎Grove Press

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poetWhen Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted...
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2 - An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong - Random House

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric...
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3 - Bitch: On the Female of the Species

Lucy Cooke - ‎Basic Books

A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom  Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces: all her friends shared the same curious kinks. The problem was her sex....
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4 - Easy Beauty

Chloé Cooper Jones - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster


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5 - The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

JONATHAN FREEDLAND - Harper

"A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information - and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" - Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo...
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