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Released: June 11, 2013
"Thought-provoking new views on transforming our relationships with currency."
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Released: June 11, 2013
"A wild rock 'n' roll ride."
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Compelling in its specificity and intriguing in its portrayal of leading financial institutions and their malfeasance."
Financial journalist Raghavan debuts with this account of the international web of insider trading at Raj Rajaratnam's Galleon hedge fund.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Clear, focused snapshots of a movement and its celebrated leader."
The author of
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (2009) returns with an examination of transformative events in American cultural history--and of that great transformer himself, Benjamin Franklin.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"A quick, smoothly readable account of Lincoln the political striver, the embodiment of the Declaration's "central idea…that every man can make himself.""
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Released: June 11, 2013
"A moving account of how one woman's willpower saved her home and her family."
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Released: June 13, 2013
"Worthwhile reading for those interested in the origins of today's sci-fi fan culture and the still understudied subject of marginal literary publishing."
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Released: June 13, 2013
"Groundbreaking history not to be missed--a book to quote and to keep, as the material is rich enough to merit rereading."
Offering a corrective to traditional accounts depicting united American revolutionaries, this valuable revisionist assessment profiles the men who struggled against the nascent nation's more radical elements.
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Released: June 14, 2013
"Duplessis' string of lovers was sufficiently fascinating to become the basis of books, plays and Verdi's opera. As a chronicle of French life, Kavanagh's book is great fun; as biography, it's scattered."
Intelligent Life contributing editor Kavanagh (
Nureyev: The Life, 2007, etc.) attempts to sort out the biography of the short-lived Parisian courtesan Marie Duplessis (1824–1847).
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Released: June 18, 2013
"The lesson in this surprisingly heartfelt memoir by an iconic American tattoo artist is that the man is not always the brand."
Hardy's memoir/cautionary tale about art, commerce, skin and ink, written with the assistance of
San Francisco Chronicle music writer Selvin (co-author:
Peppermint Twist: The Mob, the Music, and the Most Famous Dance Club of the '60s, 2012, etc.).
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Released: June 18, 2013
"A unique, romantic memoir and a perfect introduction to a unique American voice."
A contrarian expatriate's impressionistic rendering of her adopted country, just before the ax fell.
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Released: June 18, 2013
"While exploring the life of his human subject, Downing also effectively draws us to visit Tuscany, to stay and absorb its magic."
Downing (
The Calligraphy Shop, 2003) delivers an illuminating biography of Janet Ross (1842–1927), who led the Anglo-Florentine community through the belle epoque and into the 1920s.
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