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Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis

A generation-defining exploration of the new midlife crisis facing Gen X women and the unique circumstances that have brought them to this point, Why We Can’t Sleep is a lively successor to Passages by Gail Sheehy and The Defining Decade by Meg Jay When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that …

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The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for NonfictionA New York Times BestsellerNamed a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book ReviewNamed one of the “10 Best Books of 2019” by the New York Times Book Review, Seattle Times, Chicago Public Library, the Chicago Tribune, and SlateNamed a Best Book of 2019 by the …

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H Is for Hawk

One of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis …

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The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist …

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You’re Not Lost if You Can Still See the Truck

In two decades at Field & Stream, the nation’s biggest outdoor magazine, Bill Heavey has become America’s everyman outdoorsman. Why? Because he believes that enthusiasm trumps skill. When he forgets his hat on a freezing winter hunt, he improvises, cutting open the juice-stained plush golden retriever puppy his daughter left in the car and using it as headgear. …

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It’s Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter-Gatherer

“Mr. Heavey takes us back to the joys—and occasional pitfalls—of the humble edibles around us, and his conclusions ring true.”—Wall Street JournalLongtime Field & Stream contributor Bill Heavey has become the magazine’s most popular voice by writing for sportsmen with more enthusiasm than skill. In his first full-length book, Heavey chronicles his attempts to “eat wild,” seeing how …

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The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle

“Remarkable…Sentence by sentence, Goldman brings to life a city that is bewitching, terrifying, beautiful….Goldman brings something new to the [chronicle] form.”—John Freeman, Boston GlobeThe Interior Circuit is Sue Kaufman prize-winner Francisco Goldman’s brilliant chronicle of his emergence from grief five years after his beloved wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico …

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Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Called “an everyman’s guide to Washington” (The New York Times), P. J. O’Rourke’s savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by the renowned political writer Andrew Ferguson — …

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Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World’s Worst Places and Asks, “What’s Funny About This” (O’Rourke, P. J.)

Now available from Grove Press, P. J. O’Rourke’s classic, best-selling guided tour of the world’s most desolate, dangerous, and desperate places. “Tired of making bad jokes” and believing that “the world outside seemed a much worse joke than anything I could conjure,” P. J. O’Rourke traversed the globe on a fun-finding mission, investigating the way of life in …

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