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Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
Few people are familiar with the life of Emma Lazarus, the poet behind the iconic lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses…”. Glaser movingly tells...
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Simple French Food (40th Anniversary Edition)
I adore Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking as much as anybody, but Richard Olney’s books about French food are the ones that have made the biggest impact on my cooking. Olney was an...
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Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer
yes Inspired by the friendship of Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell, this novel imagines two new characters and captures the writer’s life of the late ‘50s, complete with artist colonies, East...
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What If? by Randall Munroe
People have sent Randall Munroe amazingly creative questions, like “Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?” and he endeavors to answer them with the enthusiastic tenacity of STEM...
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Ablutions by Patrick DeWitt
This book is utterly depraved & also brilliant. Dewitt’s narrator is a bartender in a very unhip dive bar. As he shares his attempts to escape his circumstances, he captures the world of the bar...
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A Circus in Winter by Cathy Day
yes Set in a fictional town based on Day’s real Indiana home, the chapters melt together in a glittering, nostalgic portrait of the winter home of the Great Porter Circus between 1884 and 1939. Think...
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Marcus Off Duty by Marcus Samuelsson
I am absolutely fascinated by restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson—both by his life story (chronicled in his memoir, Yes, Chef) and by his multicultural cooking—so I’m really excited to pick up this...
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How to Cook Everything Fast by Mark Bittman
Want to cook but don’t have a ton of time? Have no fear, Mark Bittman is here! In the most recent addition to Bittman’s excellent How to Cook Everything series, he provides quick and easy recipes that...
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What If? by Randall Munroe
People have sent Randall Munroe amazingly creative questions, like “Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?” and he endeavors to answer them with the enthusiastic tenacity of STEM...
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The Best American Infographics 2014
In a world obscured by an abundance of data, infographics are the eyeglasses that bring everything into focus. With an introduction by reigning king-of-data Nate Silver (The Signal and the Noise), this...
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