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Laila Gohar

Laila Gohar is an internationally recognized installation artist and chef who works with food as her artistic medium. She creates immersive experiences that blur the line between art and dining. As sh…

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Everything/Nothing/Someone

Alice Carrière

Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned painter Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European acto…

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Holding the Note

David Remnick

The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing “Respect” or Bob Dylan performing “Blind Willie McTell,” have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a…

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The Hedgehog Diaries

Sarah Sands

A beautifully written story about grief and healing, in which hedgehogs become a metaphor for hope. It is the Winter Solstice and Sarah Sands is sitting by her father’s bedside, bracing herself for lo…

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Ethics in the Real World

Peter Singer

Peter Singer is often described as the world’s most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethin…

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Homegrown

Jeffrey Toobin

Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets: killing 168 people was his patriotic duty. He cited…

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The Glucose Goddess Method

Jessie Inchauspé

“Can you move in with me please?” After her first book Glucose Revolution took the world by storm, this was the question Jessie Inchauspé’s readers were asking her. In Glucose Revolution, Jessie share…

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The Wager

David Grann

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell…

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The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly

Margareta Magnusson

A humorous book of insights and stories about growing old in today’s world by the NYT bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. Now unburdened by (emotional and actual!) baggage…

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Invasion

Luke Harding

In a damning, inspiring, and breathtaking narrative of what is likely to be a turning point for Europe—and the world—Guardian correspondent and New York Times bestselling author Luke Harding reports f…

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