Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Tim Weiner

With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left t…

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A Disordered Life

Marcel Rufo

Adolescence, that brittle territory between the certainty of childhood and the maturity of adulthood has an inherent fragility and ambiguity. The onset of self-awareness and self-doubt can often trigg…

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Anticancer

David Servan-Schreiber

Over 1,800,000 copies sold worldwide. A number 1 bestseller in France, and an immediate New York Times bestseller. All of us have cancer cells in our bodies. But not all of us will develop cancer. Thi…

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The Best is Still to Come

Guy Corneau

Guy Corneau’s work as a psychoanalyst is always focused on finding new ways to make his research applicable and helpful to all of us. His concern is to make us more as we wish to be, and free us from…

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By the Sword

Richard Cohen

Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who as a schoolboy would practice fencing with Bess—his future wife— when the two of them returned home from school….

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Literature in Peril

Tzvetan Todorov

In his new bestselling essay, the philosopher and literary theorist Tzvetan Todorov addresses the worrying state of contemporary literature. Todorov argues that the crux of this problem lies in an app…

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Clara’s War

Clara Kramer

Clara Kramer was a typical Polish Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, her family home was given to a Volksdeutsch family, the Becks. Mr…

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Talk to the Snail

Stephen Clarke

Have you ever walked into a half-empty restaurant in France only to be told that it’s ‘complet’? Attempted to say ‘merci beaucoup’ and accidentally complimented someone on their cute backside? Been ta…

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Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The daughter of a political opponent of the Somali dictatorship, Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up surrounded by her family in exile. Her traditional upbringing continued from Somalia to Saudi Arabia and then t…

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Stolen Voices

Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger

In 1992 Zlata Filipovic found herself caught in the siege of Sarajevo. The diary that she had begun as a carefree twelve year old became a war diary – a record of the devastation that was unfolding ar…

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