May 2013
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Cross My Heart
January 2014 Hardcover James Patterson, Cross My Heart 978-0-316-21091-1, $29.00 DESCRIPTION Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart—nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex’s strength as a weapon against...
May 3rd
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An Unfinished Life
October 2013 Paperback Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 978-0-316-90792-7; $18.00 DESCRIPTION When it was originally published in 2003, AN UNFINISHED LIFE brought to light new revelations about JFK’s health, his love affairs, his brothers and father, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement if he had survived. A blockbuster bestseller,...
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April 2013
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Fall 2013 Winter 2014 Catalog
Below you’ll find the pages of our Fall 2013/Winter 2014 Catalog in chronological order. Happy browsing!
Apr 8th
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The Secret Rescue
May 2013 Hardcover Cate Lineberry, The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines 978-0-316-22022-4, $27.00 DESCRIPTION When 26 Army nurses and medics-part of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron-boarded a cargo plane for transport in November 1943, they never anticipated the crash landing in Nazi-occupied Albania that would lead to their...
Apr 8th
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The Book of Schmaltz
August 2013 Hardcover Michael Ruhlman, The Book of Schmaltz: Love Song to a Forgotten Fat 978-0-316-25408-3, $27.00 DESCRIPTION For culinary expert Michael Ruhlman, the ultimate goal in cooking is flavor, and for certain dishes nothing introduces it half as well as schmaltz. A staple ingredient in traditional Jewish cuisine, schmaltz (or rendered chicken fat, flavored with onions), is at risk...
Apr 8th
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Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies
June 2013 Hardcover Chris Kluwe, Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies: On Myths, Morons, Free Speech, Football, and Assorted Absurdities 978-0-316-23677-5 DESCRIPTION Hi. In your hands, right now, you hold the culmination of thousands of years of human intelligence, ingenuity, and brilliance. Now put your goddamn phone down and pay attention to my book. What is in my book, you ask? (I’m...
Apr 8th
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Burial Rites
September 2013 Hardcover Hannah Kent, Burial Rites 978-0316-24391-9, $26.00 DESCRIPTION Set against Iceland’s stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only...
Apr 8th
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Grain Brain
September 2013 Hardcover David Perlmutter, MD with Kristin Loberg, Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar—Your Brain’s Silent Killers 978-0-316-23480-1, $27.00 DESCRIPTION Renowned neurologist David Perlmutter, MD, blows the lid off a topic that’s been buried in medical literature for far too long: carbs are destroying your brain. And not just unhealthy...
Apr 8th
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Countdown
September 2013 Hardcover Alan Weisman, Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? 978-0-316-09775-8, $28.00 DESCRIPTION In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity’s constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired...
Apr 8th
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The Maid's Version
September 2013 Hardcover Daniel Woodrell, The Maid’s Version 978-0-316-20585-6, $25.00 DESCRIPTION Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri.  Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who...
Apr 8th
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Gone
September 2013 Hardcover James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge, Gone 978-0-316-21098-0, $28.00 DESCRIPTION Manuel Perrine doesn’t fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish...
Apr 8th
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Operation Paperclip
February 2014 Hardcover Annie Jacobsen, Operation Paperclip 978-0-316-22104-7, $30.00 DESCRIPTION In the chaos following WWII, some of the greatest spoils of Germany’s resources were the Third Reich’s scientific minds. The U.S. government secretly decided that the value of these former Nazis’ knowledge outweighed their crimes and began a covert operation code-named...
Apr 8th
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The Devil That Never Dies
September 2013 Hardcover Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism 978-0-316-09787-1, $30.00 DESCRIPTION Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is openly spread by intellectuals, politicians, and religious leaders in Europe, Asia, the Arab world, America,...
Apr 8th
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The Hive
September 2013 Hardcover Gill Hornby, The Hive 978-0-316-23479-5, $25.00 DESCRIPTION It’s the start of another school year at St. Ambrose. While the children are busy in the classroom, their mothers are learning sharper lessons. Lessons in friendship. Lessons in betrayal. Lessons in the laws of community, the transience of power…and how to get invited to lunch. Beatrice —...
Apr 8th
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American Coup
September 2013 Hardcover William M. Arkin, American Coup: Martial Life and the Invisible Sabotage of the Constitution 978-0-316-25124-2, $27.00 DESCRIPTION When we think of a military coup, the first image that comes to mind is a general, standing at a podium with a flag behind him, declaring the deposing of elected leaders and the institution of martial law. Think again. In AMERICAN COUP,...
Apr 8th
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The Urban Bestiary
September 2013 Hardcover Lyanda Lynn Haupt, The Urban Bestiary 978-0-316-17852-5, $26.00 DESCRIPTION In THE URBAN BESTIARY, acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes, raccoons, chickens, hawks, and humans live in closer proximity than ever before. Haupt’s observations bring compelling new questions to light: Whose...
Apr 8th
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The Abominable
October 2013 Hardcover Dan Simmons, The Abominable 978-0-316-19883-7, $28.00 DESCRIPTION It’s 1926, and the desire to summit the world’s highest mountain has reached a fever-pitch among adventurers. Three young friends, eager to take their shot at the top, accept funding from a grieving mother whose son fell to his death on Mt. Everest two years earlier. But she refuses to...
Apr 8th
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David and Goliath
October 2013 Hardcover Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: The Triumph of the Underdog 978-0-316-20436, $29.00 DESCRIPTION We all know that underdogs can win—that’s what the David versus Goliath legend tells us, and we’ve seen it with our own eyes. Or have we? In DAVID AND GOLIATH, Malcolm Gladwell, with his unparalleled ability to grasp connections others miss, uncovers the...
Apr 8th
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The Goldfinch
October 2013 Hardcover Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch 978-0-316-005543-7, $30.00 DESCRIPTION A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend’s family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few...
Apr 8th
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The Double
October 2013 Hardcover George Pelecanos, The Double 978-0-316-07839-9, $26.00 DESCRIPTION The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting—“The Double”—Grace Kinkaid’s ex-boyfriend stole from her. It’s the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what’s missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who...
Apr 8th
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Isa Does It
October 2013 Hardcover Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week 978-0-316-22190-0, $30.00 DESCRIPTION How does Isa Chandra Moskowitz make flavorful and satisfying vegan meals from scratch every day, often in 30 minutes or less? It’s easy! In ISA DOES IT, the beloved cookbook author shares 150 new recipes to make...
Apr 8th
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The Everything Store
October 2013 Hardcover Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon 978-0-316-21926-6, $28.00 DESCRIPTION Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low...
Apr 8th
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The Outcasts
October 2013 Hardcover Kathleen Kent, The Outcasts 978-0-316-20612-9, $26.00 DESCRIPTION It’s the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she’d been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing rumors of a pirate’s buried...
Apr 8th
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The 34-Ton Bat
October 2013 Hardcover Steve Rushin, The 34-Ton Bat: The Story of Baseball as Told Through Bobbleheads, Cracker Jacks, Jockstraps, Eye Black, and 375 Other Strange and Unforgettable Objects 978-0-316-20093-6, $25.00 DESCRIPTION No sport embraces its wild history quite like baseball, especially in memorabilia and objects. Sure, there are baseball cards and team pennants. But there are also...
Apr 8th
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Melt
October 2013 Hardcover Stephanie Stiavetti and Garrett McCord, Melt: The Art of Macaroni and Cheese 978-0-316-21337-0. $30.00 DESCRIPTION Melt: The Art of Macaroni and Cheese is the first book to marry the American standard, macaroni and cheese, with handcrafted artisan cheeses, producing dishes that are both classic and chic. In this accessible and stylish book, budding chefs will be...
Apr 8th
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The Married Kama Sutra
October 2013 Hardcover Simon Kich and Farley Katz, The Married Kama Sutra 978-0-316-24811-2. $16.00 DESCRIPTION For centuries, lovers have found inspiration and advice in the ancient text of the Kama Sutra. Now, Simon Rich—“one of the funniest writers in America” (The Daily Beast)—and Farley Katz have unearthed a valuable new document—a guide to the positions most common after...
Apr 8th
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Mast Brothers Chocolate
October 2013 Hardcover Rick and Michael Mast, Mast Brothers Chocolate: A Family Cookbook 978-0-316-23484-9, $40.00 DESCRIPTION The Mast Brothers are pioneers of the bean-to-bar craft chocolate movement. Sourcing cocoa with unique flavor profiles from around the equator, they roast the beans in small batches to create truly handmade chocolate, one of the very few chocolate makers to do so....
Apr 8th
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The Luminaries
October 2013 Hardcover Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries 978-0-316-07431-5, $26.00 DESCRIPTION On a blustery January day, a prostitute is arrested. In the midst of the 1866 gold rush on the coast of New Zealand, this might have gone unnoticed. But three notable events occur on that same day: a luckless drunk dies, a wealthy man vanishes, and a ship’s captain of ill repute cancels all of...
Apr 8th
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The 80/20 Manager
October 2013 Hardcover Richard Koch, The 80/20 Manager: The Secret to Working Less and Achieving More 978-0-316-24306-3, $27.00 DESCRIPTION In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch showed readers how to put the 80/20 Principle—the idea that 80 percent of results come from just 20 percent of effort—into practice in their personal lives. Now in THE 80/20 MANAGER, he demonstrates...
Apr 8th
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Stella Bain
November 2013 Hardcover Anita Shreve, Stella Bain 978-0-316-09886-1, $28.00 DESCRIPTION When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had...
Apr 8th
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Private L.A.
January 2013 Hardcover James Patterson, Private L.A. 978-0-316-21112-3, $28.00 DESCRIPTION Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, with three perfect children. They maybe two of the biggest mega movie stars in the world, but they’re also great parents, philanthropists and just all-around good people. When they disappear without a word from their ranch, facts are hard to find....
Apr 8th
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Collision Low Crossers
November 2013 Hardcover Nicholas Dawidoff, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football 978-0-316-19679-6, $28.00 DESCRIPTION Football is the country’s most popular pastime, and yet most of what happens in today’s NFL is a mystery. The New York Jets gave Nicholas Dawidoff a security code, a locker, an office in the scouting department, and for an...
Apr 8th
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Johnny Cash
October 2013 Hardcover Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life 978-0-316-19475-4, $30.00 DESCRIPTION People don’t just listen to Johnny Cash—they believe in him. Although part of his life has been told on film, there are many compelling layers to his story that have remained hidden—until now. Robert Hilburn tells the unvarnished truth about a musical icon whose personal life was far more...
Apr 8th
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Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations
November 2013 Hardcover Retha Powers, Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations 978-0-316-01017-7, $35.00 DESCRIPTION BARTLETT’S FAMILIAR BLACK QUOTATIONS paints a rich canvas of Black history through time. Five thousand quotes are culled from the time of Ancient Egypt through American slavery, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Era, Apartheid, to the present day. With passages from authors,...
Apr 8th
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A Passion for Bread
November 2013 Hardcover Lionel Vatinet, A Passion for Bread: Lessons from a Master Baker 978-0-316-20062-2, $35.00 DESCRIPTION A PASSION FOR BREAD brings a Master Baker’s encyclopedic knowledge of bread, passed on from a long line of French artisan bakers, to the American home, with detailed instructions and dozens of step-by-step photographs. It will cover everyday loaves like...
Apr 8th
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Red Sky in Morning
November 2013 Hardcover Paul Lynch, Red Sky in Morning 978-0-316-23025-4, $25.00 DESCRIPTION It’s 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man’s father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the choleric work camps of the Pennsylvania...
Apr 8th
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A Thousand Hills to Heaven
November 2013 Hardcover Josh Ruxin, A Thousand Hills to Heaven 978-0-316-23291-3, $27.00 DESCRIPTION Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think you can really make a difference? Especially in a place like Rwanda, where the scars of genocide linger and poverty is rampant? While Josh worked hard bringing food and health care to the...
Apr 8th
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The Gods of Guilt
December 2013 Hardcover Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt 978-0-316-06951-9, $28.00 DESCRIPTION Mickey Haller gets the text, “Call me ASAP - 187,” and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim...
Apr 8th
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The Kid
December 2013 Hardcover Ben Bradlee Jr., The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams 978-0-316-61435-1, $30.00 DESCRIPTION Ted Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than 500 home runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would have been even higher if Williams had not left...
Apr 8th
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Love Sense
December 2013 Hardcover Dr. Sue Johnson Ed.D, Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships 978-0-316-13376-0, $27.00 DESCRIPTION Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. LOVE SENSE presents new scientific evidence that tells us that humans are meant to mate for life. Dr. Johnson explains that romantic love...
Apr 8th
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The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
December 2013 Hardcover Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth: A Novel 978-0-316-22581-6, $23.00 DESCRIPTION Before our history began, another—now forgotten—civilization thrived. The people who roamed Early Earth were much like us: curious, emotional, funny, ambitious, and vulnerable. In this series of illustrated and linked tales, Isabel Greenberg chronicles the explorations of a...
Apr 8th
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The Visionist
January 2014 Hardcover The Visionist, Rachel Urquhart 978-0-316-22811-4, $26.00 DESCRIPTION In this exquisite, transporting debut, 15-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to the family farm, killing her abusive father. She and her young brother find shelter in a Massachusetts Shaker community called The City of Hope. It is the Era of Manifestations, when young girls in Shaker enclaves all across...
Apr 8th
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Baby Knows Best
December 2013 Hardcover Deborah Carlisle Solomon, Baby Knows Best: Raising a Confident and Resourceful Child, the RIE™ Way 978-0-316-21920-4, $27.00 DESCRIPTION Your baby knows more than you think. That’s the heart of the principles and teachings of Magda Gerber, founder of RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers), and Educaring. BABY KNOWS BEST is based on Gerber’s belief in...
Apr 8th
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The Bear
February 2014 Hardcover Claire Cameron, The Bear 978-0-316-23012-4, $25.00 DESCRIPTION While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, 300 pounds of fury, is attacking the family’s campsite, pouncing on her parents as prey. At her dying mother’s faint urging, Anna manages to get her...
Apr 8th
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The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet
February 2014 Hardcover The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body’s Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast 978-0-316-23002-5, $28.00 DESCRIPTION The key to losing weight and keeping it off is maintaining low insulin levels. Based on Dr. Hyman’s groundbreaking Blood Sugar Solution program, THE BLOOD SUGAR SOLUTION 10-DAY DETOX DIET presents...
Apr 8th
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The Red Road
February 2014 Hardcover Denise Mina, The Red Road 978-0-316-18851-7, $26.00 DESCRIPTION Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Mark Lynch ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she’s known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Lynch’s trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns...
Apr 8th
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For the Benefit of Those Who See
January 2014 Hardcover For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind 978-0-316-04342-7, $27.00 DESCRIPTION In the tradition of Oliver Sacks’s The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated...
Apr 8th
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Blood Royal
February 2014 Hardcover Eric Jager, Blood Royal 978-0-316-22451-2, $29.00 DESCRIPTION On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As panic seized Paris, an investigation began. In charge was the Provost of Paris, Guillaume...
Apr 8th
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Vendetta
March 2014 Hardcover James Neff, Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa 978-0-316-73834, $28.00 DESCRIPTION From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy’s battle with Hoffa burst into the public consciousness with the media-saturated Senate Rackets Committee hearings in 1956, which aimed to...
Apr 8th
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The Land of Steady Habits
March 2014 Hardcover Ted Thompson, The Land of Steady Habits 978-0-316-18656-8, $26.00 DESCRIPTION Anders Hill—nearing his early 60s and seemingly ensconced in the “land of steady habits,” a nickname for the affluent, morally strict hamlets of Connecticut that dot the commuter rail line—abandons his career and family for a new condo, and a new life. Stripped of the comforts of...
Apr 8th
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