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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat - smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague.
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The Big Hype
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Paul Brock, a writer struggling with the realities of getting his first novel published, approaches his old friend Mel Steiner for assistance. Mel, a music-business mogul and a modern-day Barnum, decides to package Paul as a celebrity, since books by celebrities often become bestsellers.
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The Breast
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Like a latter-day, Gregor Smasa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed....
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Dazzle Gradually
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At the crossroads of philosophy and science, the sometimes-dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essays—many never before anthologized.
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Deception
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In Deception, Phillip Roth presents the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction....
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The Education of Henry Adams
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As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment.
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Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
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With refreshing objectivity, Waldman narrates the real story of how the nation's Founders forged a new approach to religious liberty, a revolutionary formula that promoted faith--by leaving it alone.
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Fun with Problems: Stories
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Robert Stone, author of the National Book Award winner Dog Soldiers, returns with this collection of stories and novellas involving violence, longing, black humor, and various vices.
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The Glass Bead Game
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Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish.
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How We Decide
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Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we "blink" and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind's black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they're discovering that this is not how the mind works.
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