Boy From the North Country by Sam Sussman
A son returns home to his dying mother to discover the astonishing truth of his origins and the secrets of a woman whose life and wisdom he is only beginning to understand When Evan,...
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The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen
A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise...
The Collaborators by Ian Buruma
Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II Ian Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures—a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur—who may have been con artists and collaborators under...
The Absent Moon by Luiz Schwarcz
A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Translator: Eric M. B. Becker A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarcz’s brave and tender memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the...
Love by Maayan Eitan
An incendiary tale of sex work from a young literary provocateur Love is a fever dream of a novel about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification...
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris
Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he...
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir by Sherry Turkle
MIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together, Sherry Turkle’s intimate memoir of love and work For decades, Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our...
The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War by David Nasaw
In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with the German capitulation. Millions...
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Illustrator: Maira Kalman Considered one of the richest and most irreverent biographies in history, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written by Gertrude Stein in the style and voice of her life partner, Alice B....
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish girl named Lientje had been...
