NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 27, 2012
"A dark but hopeful chronicle that shows how even humanity's worst can fracture and fall."
A Pulitzer Prize–winning author returns with the story of those dark decades in Eastern Europe when the Soviet Union slammed the prison doors on people, cultures and countries.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 27, 2012
"Impressively authoritative."
A noted historian and political commentator claims 1775 as the American Revolution's true beginning.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 27, 2012
"An optimistically levelheaded book about actually dealing with global warming."
A serious attempt to address climate change: "why it matters, what causes [it], and who is responsible."
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 27, 2012
"A fully realized, important portrait of a significant 20th-century leader."
The "first full-scale biography" of Israel's controversial Prime Minister Menachem Begin (1913–1992).
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 20, 2012
"Not every piece will connect with every reader, but Barnes is a fine literary companion."
The focus on books and literature makes this more cohesive than the usual collection of journalistic miscellany.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 14, 2012
"An affecting yet never saccharine glimpse of the relationship among place, family and fiction."
The celebrated best-selling novelist recalls his late mother's powerful, often frustrating influence on his life and work.
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