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Released: Jan. 19, 2010
"Riveting and exquisitely crafted."
Musician, poet and visual artist Smith (
Trois, 2008, etc.) chronicles her intense life with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the 1960s and '70s, when both artists came of age in downtown New York.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 9, 2010
"Skloot's meticulous, riveting account strikes a humanistic balance between sociological history, venerable portraiture and Petri dish politics."
A dense, absorbing investigation into the medical community's exploitation of a dying woman and her family's struggle to salvage truth and dignity decades later.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 23, 2010
The subtitle of David Shields' Reality Hunger categorizes it as "a manifesto," which is a little like calling a nuclear bomb "a weapon."
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2010
"A potent book that readers won't soon forget, and a warning of what can come of an insatiable market that knows no borders."
GQ and
Mother Jones contributing editor Bowden (
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future, 2009, etc.) digs into the complexities behind the ominous escalation of violence in Ciudad Juárez, a city across the border from El Paso that now has the tragic distinction of being the most dangerous city in the world.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 6, 2010
"Remnick's fluent writing makes this expansive, significant book move along swiftly. Readers will look forward to the sequel, eight years from now."
From
New Yorker editor Remnick (
Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker, 2006, etc.), a world-ranging, eye-opening, comprehensive life to date of the 44th President of the United States
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NONFICTION
Released: April 20, 2010
"A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the 21st century."
NONFICTION
Released: April 22, 2010
"A thoroughly researched, nuanced appreciation of a complex, talented and troubled man."
A National Book Award–winning historian takes an in-depth look at the 20th-century's most innovative publishing titan.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 27, 2010
"An expertly written study in true crime, vividly recapturing the mood of 1968."
From veteran journalist and historian Sides (
Blood and Thunder, 2006, etc.), a riveting account of James Earl Ray's long quest to kill Martin Luther King Jr.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 11, 2010
"Intoxicating."
Both a rollicking recap of the Roaring '20s and a cautionary tale about how a government's attempts to legislate and monitor morality are nearly always doomed.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 2, 2010
"Revealing and riveting. There's little about his brother, his two marriages or his children, but other memoirs may follow."
Hitchens (
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, 2009, etc.) offers an engrossing account of his lives as a British Navy brat, a socialist activist and a leading essayist and intellectual of our time.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 6, 2010
"Every page is a pleasure."
A sparkling collection of features by the Pulitzer Prize–winning
Washington Post columnist.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 10, 2010
"An excellent memoir that ends on an encouraging note: "More to come.""
Beautifully written meditations on love, death, family and redemption from the celebrated songwriter.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 15, 2010
"Without wasting a word, Grimes presents a thoroughly readable view of how stories--and writers, at least of a certain kind--are made."
NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 30, 2010
"Multilayered, provocative and highly accessible, this will appeal to Chan fans, scholars and general readers."
China-born poet and critic Huang (English/Univ. of California, Santa Barbara/
Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics, 2008, etc.) recounts the making of an American folk hero.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 6, 2010
"Not just a catalog or reference book, but a highly astute, integrative cultural history."
A comprehensive critical analysis of significant Broadway shows from the 18th century to
The Lion King and beyond.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2010
"An impressive take on the Great Migration, and a truly auspicious debut."
In her ambitious debut, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wilkerson (Journalism, Narrative Nonfiction/Boston Univ.) examines the Great Migration of African-Americans from World War I to the 1970s.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 14, 2010
"In the end, Dray's account is evenhanded--not all bosses are bad, not all activists good--but it is clear where his sympathies lie, especially in his prescriptions for a renewed international labor movement for the future."
Exemplary history of the American labor movement, from its time-shrouded beginnings to its murky present.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2010
"A superb book that greatly deepens our understanding of these founders."
A monumental account of a 50-year political partnership that shaped the early history of the United States.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 5, 2010
"A landmark achievement in basketball journalism."
In his debut, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist embeds himself in the sleazy underbelly of grassroots basketball.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 19, 2010
"A dense, challenging, dazzling work that will leave readers exhausted but yearning for more."
The peripatetic author of
Great Plains (1989) and
On the Rez (2000) returns with an energetic, illuminating account of his several trips to Siberia, where his ferocious curiosity roamed the vast, enigmatic area.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 20, 2010
"An impressively rendered, nightmare-inducing account."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2010
"Successfully dissipating all the perfume, Schiff finds a remarkably complex woman--brutal and loving, dependent and independent, immensely strong but finally vulnerable."
A Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer presents a swift, sympathetic life of one of history's most maligned and legendary women.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 2, 2010
"There's really nothing like this oft-rapturous work in the canon of musical memoirs."
The master musician and producer offers a typically idiosyncratic take on his life and art.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 9, 2010
"Apollo, Ra, Inti or Huitzilopochtli--all would rock with delight at Cohen's sweeping endeavor."
A remarkably comprehensive and engrossing synthesis of the sun's influence on science, art, religion, literature, mythology and politics.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 23, 2010
"Roosevelt never fails to fascinate, and Morris provides a highly readable, strong finish to his decades-long marathon."
With appropriate crescendo and coda, the concluding volume of the author's sweeping biography of Theodore Roosevelt, following
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) and
Theodore Rex (2001).
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