What I’m Reading
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Fangland By John Marks |
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Midstream By Reynolds Price |
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American Tapestry By Rachel Swarns |
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Elsewhere By Richard Russo |
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Imagine By Jonah Lehrer |
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Leonardo and the Last Supper By Ross King |
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Life Everlasting By Bernd Heinrich |
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Finding Camlann By Sean Pidgeon |
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The Shadow of the Wind By Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
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Freedom National By James Oakes |
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My Father’s House By Will Barnet |
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Brothers By George Howe Colt |
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Reflections on Two Craftsman By Sam Ellenport and Ron Gordon |
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Caspar David Friedrich By Johannes Grave |
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White People By Allan Gurganus |
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Madcap May By Richard Kurin |
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“Who Could That Be At This Hour?” By Lemony Snickett |
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Giants of Enterprise By Richard Tedlow |
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The Testament of Mary By Colm Toibin |
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Heads in Beds By Jacob Tomsky |
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Dogfight By Calvin Trillin |
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The Man Who Saved the Union By H.W. Brands |
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In Sunlight and In Shadow By Mark Helprin |
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Live by Night By Dennis Lehane |
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The End of Your Life Book Club By Will Schwalbe |
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Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man By Walter Stahr |
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The Casual Vacancy By J.K. Rowling |
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The Fourteenth Day By David G. Coleman |
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Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy By Ted Widmer |
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In Spite of the Double Drawbacks: African American Women in History and Culture By Lopez D. Matthews, Jr. |
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Stray Decorum By George Singleton |
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May We Be Forgiven By A.M. Homes |
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Liberty’s Exiles By Maya Jasanoff |
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Tweet Land of Liberty By Elinor Lipman |
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Creme Brulee By Thomas J. Craughwell |
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One Town, Many Voices By Jan Blodgett and Ralph B. Levering |
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Capturing Camelot By Kitty Kelley |
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The Kitchen Diaries II By Nigel Slater |
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In Pursuit of a Vision By American Antiquarian Society |
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A Greyhound of a Girl By Roddy Doyle |
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For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence By Alexander Tsesis |
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Night Watch By Linda Fairstein |
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Ministers of Fire By Mark Harril Saunders |
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Drop Dead Healthy By A.J. Jacobs |
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Why We Broke Up By Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman |
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Grant: Savior of the Union By Mitchell Yockelson |
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George By Frank Keating |
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War By Sebastian Junger |
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Americanos By John Charles Chasteen |
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Employee Engagement 2.0 By Kevin Kruse |
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Fateful Lightening By Allen G. Guelzo |
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How to Cook Like a Man By Daniel Duane |
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Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child By Bob Spitz |
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The Way the World Works By Nicholson Baker |
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Half Empty By David Rakoff |
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Dining with the Washingtons: Historic Recipes, Entertaining, and Hospitality from Mount Vernon Edited By Stephen A. McLeod |
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First Cameraman By Arun Chaudhary |
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The Newlyweds By Nell Freudenberger |
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Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail By W. Jeffrey Bolster |
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Cocktails & Conversations By Joel Finsel |
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock By David Margolick |
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Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think By Peter H. Diamondis and Steven Kotler |
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The Wikipedia Revolution By Andrew Lih |
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Networked: The New Social Operating System By Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman |
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Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation By Allen C. Guelzo |
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In One Person By John Irving |
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The Southern Part of Heaven By Williiam Meade Prince |
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Beyond the Wall: The Journey Home By Alivia Tagliaferri |
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Conquered Into Liberty By Eliot A. Cohen |
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Drop Dead Healthy By A.J. Jacobs |
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Are You My Mother? By Alison Bechdel |
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How To Cook Like a Man By Daniel Duane |
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The Red House By Mark Haddon |
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Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage By Scott Keller and Colin Price |
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Canada By Richard Ford |
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American Grown By Michelle Obama |
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Pure By Andrew Miller |
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Central Park Edited by Andrew Blauner |
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America’s Other Audubon By Joy A. Kiser |
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Ripe By Nigel Slater |
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Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? By Jeanette Winterson |
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Suddenly, A Knock On the Door By Etgar Keret |
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George F. Kennan By John Lewis Gaddis |
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The Worst Hard Time By Timothy Egan |
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The Central Park Five By Sarah Burns |
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The Cove By Ron Rash |
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Dinner With Churchill By Cita Stelzer |
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At Last By Edward St Aubyn |
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Left-handed By Jonathan Galassi |
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Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency By Mark K. Updegrove |
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Phantom Pain By Ansley Herring Wegner |
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World War II Remembered By Residents of Kendal at Hanover |
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When General Grant Expelled the Jews By Jonathan D. Sarna |
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USS Monitor: A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage By John D. Broadwater |
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Birds of Lesser Paradise By Megan Mayhew Bergman |
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The Technologists By Matthew Pearl |
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Alice James By Jean Strouse |
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The Last Testament: A Memoir by God With David Javerbaum |
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Pitch Black: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties for All By Youme Landowne and Anthony Horton |
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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation By John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger |
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Stay Awake By Dan Chaon |
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank By Nathan Englander |
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The Odds By Stewart O’Nan |
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Taken By Robert Crais |
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Jack Holmes & His Friend By Edmund White |
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Mr g By Alan Lightman |
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Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson |
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The Lives of Talleyrand By Crane Brinton |
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Hope: A Tragedy By Shalom Auslander |
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil By Tom Mueller |
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Talleyrand By Duff Cooper |
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Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending By Elizabeth Eisenstein |
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Spies, Black Ties, and Mango Pies: the CIA Cookbook |
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The Practice of Adaptive Leadership By Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, Marty Linsky |
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The Commoner By John Burnham Schwartz |
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Too Big to Know By David Weinberger |
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Salvage the Bones By Jesmyn Ward |
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The Prague Cemetery By Umberto Eco |
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Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural BioethicsBy Karla FC Holloway |
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Binocular Vision By Edith Pearlman |
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The Family Fang By Kevin Wilson |
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Reservation Road By John Burnham Schwartz |
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Northwest Corner By John Burnham Schwartz |
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The Portable Son By Barrett Hathcock |
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It’s Fine By Me By Per Petterson |
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The Conference of the Birds By Peter Sis |
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This Time By Robert Gibbons |
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Now You See It By Cathy N. Davidson |
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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero By Chris Matthews |
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Nanjing Requiem By Ha Jin |
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Midnight Rising By Tony Horwitz |
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The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln By Kate Clifford Larson |
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The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators By Edward Steers, Jr. |
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Pulphead Essays By John Jeremiah Sullivan |
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Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live By Jeff Jarvis |
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Ragnarok By A.S. Byatt |
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The Inspiring Leader By John Zenger |
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Great by Choice By Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen |
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A Sweet World of White House Desserts By Roland Mesnier |
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Zone One By Colson Whitehead |
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Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President By Eli Saslow |
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God Bless America By Steve Almond |
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Toast By Nigel Slater |
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Mending By Sallie Bingham |
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Design Sponge at Home By Grace Bonney |
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Feeding on Dreams By Ariel Dorfman |
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The Unauthorized Autobiography By Julian Assange |
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We Others By Steven Millhauser |
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Bring Your Legs With You By Darrell Spencer |
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I Married You For Happiness By Lily Tuck |
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The Family Meal By Ferren Adria |
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Edible Brooklyn: The Cookbook |
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Forging the Shield: Eisenhower and National Security for the 21st Century By Dennis E. Showalter |
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Touching History By Lynn Spencer |
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Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives By Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg |
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The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work By Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer |
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Driving the Body Back By Mary Swander |
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In My Time By Dick Cheney |
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The Black Hand: Terror by Letter in Chicago By Robert M. Lombardo |
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Crimes in Southern Indiana Stories By Frank Bill |
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White Ravens By Owen Sheers |
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The Leftovers By Tom Perrotta |
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Resistance By Owen Sheers |
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The Blue Book By Owen Sheers |
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Skirrid Hill By Owen Sheers |
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The Berlin Candy Bomber By Gail S. Halvorsen |
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The Chesire Cheese Cat By Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright |
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How We Decide By Jonah Lehrer |
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The Talk-Funny Girl By Roland Merullo |
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children By Ransom Riggs |
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Flash and Bones By Kathy Reichs |
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The Most Dangerous Thing By Laura Lippman |
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Private Bodies, Public Texts By Karla F C Holloway |
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The Introvert Advantage By Marti Olsen Laney |
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The Happiness Advantage By Shawn Achor |
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In Defense of Flogging By Peter Moskos |
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House of Holes By Nicholson Baker |
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Carter Beats the Devil By Glen David Gold |
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Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little By Christopher Johnson |
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The Myths of Innovation By Scott Berkun |
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Emus Loose in Egnar By Judy Muller |
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The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills By Joanna Pearson |
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Bed By David Whitehouse |
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Rhythm of Desire and Resistance By Robert Gibbons |
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Measure of the Earth By Larrie D. Ferreiro |
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The Boston Chef’s Table By Clara Silverstein |
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A White House Garden Cookbook By Clara Silverstein |
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Rocks and Shoals: Order and Discipline in the Old Navy, 1880-1861 By James E. Valle |
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose By Tony Hsieh |
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The Lewis and Clark Cookbook By Leslie Mansfield |
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Original Cowboy Cookbook By Wild Wes Medley |
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A World on Fire By Amanda Foreman |
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Jagged Timeline By Robert Gibbons |
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Boredom: A Lively History By Peter Toohey |
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Orientation and Other Short Stories By Daniel Orozco |
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Reading My Father By Alexandra Styron |
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The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story By Anne Enright |
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Book Love Edited By James Charlton and Bill Henderson |
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Centuries of June By Keith Donohue |
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Ronald Reagan, The Notes: Ronald Reagan’s Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom Edited By Douglas Brinkley |
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A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America By Stacy Schiff |
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Made in Spain By Jose Andreas |
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Tapas: A Taste of Spain in America By Jose Andreas |
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Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous By Joan Nathan |
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The Good Stuff Cookbook By Spike Mendelsohn |
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America Eats! By Pat Willard |
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The Nixons: A Family Portrait By Ed Nixon |
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Forgotten Patriots: African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War By National Society Daughters of the American Revolution |
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Henry Shawah: Goldsmith and Sculptor By Henry Shawah |
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The Watery Part of the World By Michael Parker |
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The Great Night By Chris Adrian |
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Many Unhappy Returns By Charles O. Rossotti |
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Better By Mistake By Alina Tugend |
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Bullfighting By Roddy Doyle |
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Townie: A Memoir By Andre Dubus III |
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All the Time in the World By E.L. Doctorow |
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20 Years of Broadside By Jeff Bacon |
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1861 By Adam Goodheart |
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Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families By Cokie and Steve Roberts |
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Immunity to Change By Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey |
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She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems By Caroline Kennedy, Compiler |
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Strengths Based Leadership By Tom Rath and Barrie Conchie |
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Georgia Bottoms By Mark Childress |
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MacArthur By Mitchell Yockelson |
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The Union War By Gary W. Gallagher |
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War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor By David A. Mindell |
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Mind and Hand: The Birth of MIT By Julius A. Stratton and Loretta H. Mannix |
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Funeral for a Dog By Thomas Pletzinger |
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Volt By Alan Heathcock |
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Moonwalking with Einstein By Joshua Foer |
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Almost a Family By John Darnton |
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William Barton Rogers and the Idea of M.I.T By A.J. Angulo |
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Against All Odds By Scott Brown |
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Panorama By H.G. Adler |
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The Journey By H.G. Adler |
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Swamplandia! By Karen Russell |
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: Hidden Inheritance By Edmund De Waal |
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Thinking about Leadership By Nannerl O. Keohane |
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The Art of War By Sun Tzu. Translated by Thomas Cleary |
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The Illumination By Kevin Brockmeier |
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An Optimist’s Tour of the Future By Mark Stevenson |
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Lincoln in 3-D By Bob Zeller and John J. Richter |
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Leading Change By John P. Kotter |
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Controlling the Past: Documenting Society and Institutions. Essays in Honor of Helen Willa Samuels Edited by Terry Cook |
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On American Soil By Jack Hamann |
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Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling By National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Sill and Offshore Drilling Report to the President |
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Sentry By Robert Crais |
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Silent Mercy By Linda Fairstein |
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Managing the Crowd: Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World By Steve Bailey |
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The Inner Circle By Brad Meltzer |
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The Bells By Richard Harvell |
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Search Patterns By Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender |
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Ambient Findability By Peter Morville |
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Designing a Digital Future Report to the President, December 2010 |
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The Jerk with the Cell Phone By Barbara Pachter and Susan Magee |
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Andrew Jackson By Sean Wilentz |
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50 Bosses Worse Than Yours By Justin Racz |
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Washington Burning By Les Standiford |
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The United States Capitol: Its Architecture and Decoration By Henry Hope Reed |
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Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery By Rick Atkinson |
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The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C.: A Comprehensive Historical Guide By James M. Goode |
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Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer’s Civil War By Peter H. Wood |
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Moonlight Mile By Dennis LeHane |
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Rescue By Anita Shreve |
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Don’t Sing At The Table: Life Lessons From My Grandmothers By Adriana Trigiana |
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter By Tom Franklin |
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I Remember Nothing By Nora Ephron |
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Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet By Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and William Damon |
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The Monuments Men By Robert M. Edsel |
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China Calls: Paving the Way for Nixon’s Historic Journey to China By Anne Collins Walker |
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Decision Points By George W. Bush |
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On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery By Robert M. Poole |
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Cleopatra: A Life By Stacy Schiff |
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General Mess Manual and Cookbook: For Use On Board Vessels of the United States Navy By Paymaster General, 1904 |
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Cruise of the Dashing Wave: Rounding Cape Horn in 1860 By Philip Hichborn |
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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age By Clay Shirky |
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Why Work Sucks and How To Fix It By Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson |
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Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead By Charlene Yi |
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Life in Mr. Lincoln’s Navy By Dennis J. Ringle |
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A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country By Wesley K. Clark |
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Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws, from Patton’s Trophy to Public Memorial By Anthony M. Platt and Cecilia E. O’Leary |
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Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work By John C. Maxwell |
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Your Call Is (not that) Important to Us: Customer Service and What It Reveals About Our World and Our Lives. By Emily Yellin |
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Lincoln and His Admirals By Craig L. Symonds |
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander In Chief By James M. McPherson |
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Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic By David Howard |
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99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale By David Wellington |
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Hamlet’s Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age By William Powers |
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Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge By Cass R. Sunstein |
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Republic.com 2.0 By Cass R. Sunstein |
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On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done By Cass R. Sunstein |
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Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful By Beth Noveck |
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This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All By Marilyn Johnson |
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Walt Whitman’s Memoranda During the War: Written on the Spot 1863-’65 Edited by Peter Coviello |
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter By Seth Grahame-Smith |
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A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt By T.J. Stiles |
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