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Released: May 7, 2013
"A well-researched treatment of two interesting figures in one of the most eventful times in world history. Though a bit plodding at first, it's well worth sticking with it."
John Quincy Adams spent several years as the American diplomatic representative in Russia, at the height of the Napoleonic wars. Here's the story.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"An eye-opening story about the relations among politics, business and justice."
A well-constructed nonfiction legal thriller from prizewinning journalist Leamer (
Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach, 2009, etc.).
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Released: May 7, 2013
"A careful, informed analysis of the origins, progress and disposition of the complex, high-stakes legal disputes that find their way to the court."
In her first book, the
National Law Journal's longtime chief Washington correspondent examines the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, seven years after the appointment of the youngest chief justice since John Marshall.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"The author's novels may provide a better introduction to his work, but this memoir will help to further illuminate them."
Kertész, the first Hungarian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, interrogates himself in a provocative memoir that will deepen the understanding of those already familiar with his novels.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A good bit of journalistic documentation related in lackluster writing."
Overly detailed look at the expert manipulations of an attractive young Parisian on the make and the English prince who fell for her.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A sometimes dry but proficient, detailed and tearless account."
A journalist unearths the story of a crash landing in war-torn Albania during World War II.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"A touching portrait of Victoria offstage and unguarded."
Mining the record left by six intimate Victorian servants, Hubbard (
Rubies in the Snow, 2007, etc.) discovers a great deal about the British monarch, wife and mother.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"While personal-flight prototypes edge from pipe dream to purchase order, this well-documented history provides a satisfying substitution."
A sapid look into the historically futile attempts to develop a gravity-defying, single-person flying machine.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"A thin, mostly secondhand portrait of a misguided doctor and the harm he caused his famous clientele."
NONFICTION
Released: April 30, 2013
"A rewarding approach to a well-worn subject, rich in anecdotes, opinion, bloodshed and Byzantine political maneuvering."
National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Philbrick (
Why Read Moby-Dick, 2011, etc.) will be a candidate for another award with this ingenious, bottom-up look at Boston from the time of the December 1773 Tea Party to the iconic June 1775 battle.
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Released: April 23, 2013
"An imperfect but worthwhile addition to the Beatles bookshelf."
NONFICTION
Released: April 23, 2013
"For general readers, the esoteric minutia may overwhelm. For naturalists and butterfly buffs, however, this is an unusual, pinpointed slice of American life enlivened with fragments of correspondence and reproductions of plates from classic books of the period."
An expansive historical account of the 19th-century figures whose enthusiasm and perseverance shaped natural history studies on butterflies.
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