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The Radical Center
AnchorRecord numbers of Americans describe themselves as “independents” and reject the conventional agendas of Left and Right. In this widely acclaimed ...
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AnchorFrom the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philandere...
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AnchorMercy, fifteen years old, is the last of the Rathbone whaling clan. Her father has been lost at sea for nearly ten years—ever since the last sperm ...
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AnchorFounded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism was philosophy's first step into the modern era. This volume contains the essential statements of R...
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AnchorSally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she h...
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AnchorAfter twelve gloriously scandalous Flashman novels, the incomparable George MacDonald Fraser gives us a totally hilarious tale of derring-do from a...
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AnchorA wonderfully comic novel about the interwoven lives of a group of 1960s grad students who, forty years later, learn that they were under FBI surve...
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AnchorA compilation of the essential works of Plato in one paperback volume: The Republic, The Symposium, Parmenides, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and P...
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AnchorThe celebrated author of Shadowlands tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in his marriage, and of the wife and son whos...
View full detailsThe Revenge of the Radioactive Lady
AnchorA Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year Marylou Ahearn is going to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs. In 1953, the good doctor gave her a radioactive cocktai...
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AnchorOn the heels of the bestseller success of her novel The Wedding, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, presents a c...
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AnchorNo woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. Now the acclaimed author of Desert Queen delivers the definitive biography of America...
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AnchorWhen Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why. Coming at t...
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AnchorIn 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, No...
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AnchorFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of...
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AnchorFor three centuries--beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613--the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia. Its reign ended with t...
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AnchorPankaj Mishra is one of the most promising talents of his generation, and this stunning, universally praised novel of self-discovery heralds a rema...
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AnchorWhen Brendan Kane accepts a stranger’s offer of work--two years on a ship departing the following morning--the nature of the journey isn't divulged...
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AnchorIn The Rope Walk, Carrie Brown crafts a luminous story of a young girl's coming of age during a crucial summer in New England. On her tenth birthda...
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AnchorIn twelfth-century Norman Sicily, King Roger presides over Palermo in the aftermath of the Second Crusade. For the time being, Latins and Greeks, A...
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AnchorWith bravura storytelling, stunning authenticity, and unforgettable characters, The Russian Affair brings readers into a world of love, intrigue an...
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AnchorAn absorbing and original examination that brilliantly argues that religion is a product of the society from which it springs—featuring illustratio...
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AnchorDuring his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that ...
View full detailsThe Schools We Need
AnchorThis paperback edition, with a new introduction, offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods...
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