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Released: June 11, 2013
"Dense, repetitive commentary that may lead some readers back to The Prince."
A convoluted return to the misunderstood work of the wily Florentine bureaucrat and philosopher.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Engrossing family history and an appealingly salacious tale, related in a bemused tone that does not hide the social ugliness and personal heartbreak underneath."
Gritty memoir with unusual connections to the criminal underworld, the legal world and Hollywood.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Despite the inherent tension in the world of the circus and the whiff of glamour surrounding the circus queen, her story will appeal mostly to true circus enthusiasts."
A story of circus fame and all its accompanying troubles from the years when the "greatest show on Earth" was at its glamorous best.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Despite its length, a tremendously engaging work with few dull moments."
The exhaustive second volume of this definitive biography treats the admiral's supreme command of the British Navy and the bittersweet Lady Hamilton years.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"A candid, cosmopolitan look at the experience of Islam in the digital age."
Occasionally glib, yet conversational, ultimately endearing account of a Sudanese-born Malaysian youth's reckoning with his inherited Islamic faith through the act of blogging.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Brechneff leavens his account of adventure, simple pleasures and hard work in a magical landscape with interludes from his life in Europe and America. Yet, happily, the author seldom strays far from his beloved island refuge, even when its enduring entreaty begins to wane."
Artist and author Brechneff (
Homage: Encounters with the East, 2007) chronicles his 30-year courtship with the Aegean isle of Sifnos, recalling his passages of self-discovery, development as a painter and ambivalence over his island identity.
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"A humorous, cerebral and daringly written memoir."
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Released: June 11, 2013
"An invaluable complement to an immortal testimony."
Anne Frank, before and after the diary, with many new details and a fresh, welcome perspective.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Insightful social history with a light touch."
Koppel (
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal, 2008, etc.) explores the cohesiveness of a group of wives who formed an unofficial support group and their individual development during the early years of the Cold War.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"A golf-is-life allegory that fails to make the cut."
Novelist and memoirist Snyder (
The Winter Travelers: A Christmas Fable, 2011, etc.)
returns with the overwrought story of his training to be a caddie so he could help his son, who hopes for a PGA career.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"An eye-opening, absorbing, complex story of scientific achievement in the face of overwhelming odds."
A hard-hitting attack on current drug policy by Hart (Psychology and Psychiatry/Columbia Univ.), a neuroscientist who grew up on the streets of one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Thought-provoking new views on transforming our relationships with currency."
