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The World According to Proust

Joshua Landy - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

100 years after Proust's death, In Search of Lost Time remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At 3,000 pages, it can be intimidating to some. This short volume invites first-time readers and veterans alike to view the novel in a new way.Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was arguably...
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Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love

Michelle Miller - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades.Though Michelle...
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Paris: The Memoir

Paris Hilton - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Behind Paris Hilton's meteoric rise from Upper West Side club kid to household name lies her self-proclaimed "superpower" of ADHD and a hidden history that traumatized and defined her. Shocking, funny, and surprisingly profound, Paris is the deeply personal memoir of the ultimate...
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The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

Larry Loftis - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII - at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only...
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The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

Nina Siegal - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order...
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Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

Alex Mar - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"Alex Mar's bold yet sensitive account of one of America's youngest death row inmates - and the people whose lives she forever changed - is intimately reported, deeply moving, and unforgettable." - Robert Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road"An...
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Raising Baby by the Stars: A New Parent's Guide to Astrology

Maressa Brown - Artisan
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive and approachable guide to raising infants and toddlers with help from the stars, from astrology expert and columnist Maressa Brown.. Beginning with your baby's sun sign, then diving into their whole birth chart, here's how to use astrology to decode your little one's...
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The Hidden Company That Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips

James B. Nardi - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A spectacularly illustrated journey into the intimate communities that native trees share with animals, insects, fungi, and microbes. You can tell a lot about a tree from the company it keeps. James Nardi guides you through the innermost unseen world that trees share with a wondrous array...
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Indian Flavor Every Day: Simple Recipes and Smart Techniques to Inspire: A Cookbook

Maya Kaimal - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

Introduce rich, complex Indian flavors to your everyday cooking with 80 easy recipes and ingenious guidance from Julia Child Best First Book Award winner Maya Kaimal.. In Indian Flavor Every Day, Indian cooking authority Maya Kaimal proves it's possible to experience the joy of this...
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The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language

Ilan Stavans - Restless Books
Format: Hardcover

A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry Roth and Zora Neale Hurston, from...
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