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The Pencil
KnopfHenry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the cen...
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KnopfThe Plague
Knopf“We can finally read the work as Camus meant it to be read. Laura Marris’s new translation of The Plague is, quite simply, the translation we need ...
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KnopfThe strongest collection yet from this widely praised poet is about the central players in our lives, our relationships over time—between mother an...
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KnopfThe Pretender
KnopfSet in the tumultuous period of the Tudors' ascent, The Pretender brings to life the little-known story of Lambert Simnel. From humble beginnings a...
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KnopfOne of the most beloved classics of our time—a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Publis...
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KnopfKahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than...
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KnopfThe remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Christians to Judaism, sparking a pilgrimage from the Andes to Israel and i...
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KnopfFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “one of the greatest poets of our age … the Thoreau of our era” (Edward Hirsch) comes a volume of astoni...
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KnopfEleven short masterworks from this great American writer of catastrophe fiction, in which lives are upended as much by broken hearts as by collapsi...
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KnopfNATIONAL BEST SELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR • GMA BUZZ PICK • “A bravura feat of storytelling...daring and completely sati...
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KnopfNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about • "Inventive, heartbreaking and...
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KnopfA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately...
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KnopfNow in paperback, Stan Rice's most recent collection brims with dynamic, unpredictable poems that delve into the darker reaches of humor and experi...
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KnopfNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL • The extraordinary life of forgotten World War II hero Evans Carlson, commander of Amer...
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KnopfA volume of poems concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and with history and how the world endures it—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “...
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KnopfA monumental and exhilarating history of European thought from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the Enlightenment—500 to 1700 AD—tracing th...
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KnopfSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the ski...
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KnopfThe never-before-told inside story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center — an epic tale of business, politics, and engineering by the man who...
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KnopfFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “one of the greatest poets of our age … the Thoreau of our era” (Edward Hirsch) comes a masterly work of...
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KnopfWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive that “only adds to...
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KnopfFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her co...
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KnopfFrom the award-winning, internationally best-selling author, a beguiling romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and ...
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