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Little Weirds - 9780316485364Author: Jenny SlatePublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Nov 24, 2020Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316485365ISBN-13:...

Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July, 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda...

This masterful exploration of American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland,...

In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman--and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through...

In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, each one "a marvel of concision and compassion" (Washington Post), Peter Orner, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and...

Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles...

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn...

After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable of "a world gone mad" (Adriana Trigiani). Finnmark, Norway,...

The Miracle series continues with a pilgrimage to the mythical greens at St. Andrews. If golf novels had a leaderboard, Miracle at St. Andrews would be at the top. Though nobody has ever identified a...

God decides to close up shop on Earth--unless two idealistic angels can make a miracle happen. Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can...

I literally couldn't stop reading. --Stephen King "I love a book that is smart as hell and impossible to put down and this is IT." --Jessica Knoll A propulsive, "chilling" (Lee Child) novel exploring...

Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story Of Life Among Arctic WolvesAuthor: Farley MowatPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Sep 13, 2001Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Laugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning "Serena Williams of humor writing" (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying not to be one. Called a...

A posthumous and definitive collection of new and selected stories by "virtuoso of the short story" (Esquire) and National Book Award finalist Thom Jones "Jones was an oracle . . . It's impossible...

The Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth...

Author: Robert WeintraubPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Jun 07, 2016Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316337056ISBN-13: 9780316337052

The "hilarious and poignant" story of one chronically anxious woman's quest to become braver by seeking out the kinds of experiences she's spent her life avoiding. (Cheryl Strayed) For most of her...

The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media,...

Nickled and Dimed for the Amazon age, (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor After the local newspaper where...

One Long River Of Song: Notes On Wonder - 9780316492881Author: Brian DoylePublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Dec 08, 2020Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of...

Author: Annie JacobsenPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Jan 20, 2015Number of Pages: 624 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316221031ISBN-13: 9780316221030

This book will be fresh even for those whose lives these bands were...All thirteen profiles are page-turners. --Robert Christgau, Village Voice This is the never-before-told story of the musical...

Author: Malcolm GladwellPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: June 07, 2011Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316017930ISBN-13: 9780316017930

Named One of the Year's Best Books by VULTURE - THE NEW REPUBLIC - DAZED - WIRED - BLOOMBERG - ESQUIRE - SALON - THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is...

A "beautifully rendered" novel about war, migration, and the power of telling our stories, Peach Blossom Spring follows three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home...

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area...

Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, representing a growing list of writers. He had a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world...

In this "deeply original" (Elif Batuman) and "violently funny" (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer finally confronts her dark past so she can live in a more peaceful future. To the outside observer,...

From an "astonishing" writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed America deranged by Mammon. A bag of money drops out of...