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These Truths

These Truths: A History of the United States (Hardcover)

By Jill Lepore

$31.96

ISBN: 9780393635249

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 18th, 2018

With a country large and varied as the United States there likely will never be a definitive single-volume history. With These Truths Lepore gives us a largely political history though one informed by the many insights produced by changes in historical methodology over the last few decades. Lepore is always a joy to read. She keeps this book lively and entertaining by focusing on individual lives involved in some of the key dramas that illuminate the how and why of our past.

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These Truths

These Truths: A History of the United States (Hardcover)

By Jill Lepore

$31.96

ISBN: 9780393635249

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 18th, 2018

With a country large and varied as the United States there likely will never be a definitive single-volume history. With These Truths Lepore gives us a largely political history though one informed by the many insights produced by changes in historical methodology over the last few decades. Lepore is always a joy to read. She keeps this book lively and entertaining by focusing on individual lives involved in some of the key dramas that illuminate the how and why of our past.

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The Disordered Mind

The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves (Hardcover)

By Eric R. Kandel

$30.00

ISBN: 9780374287863

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - August 28th, 2018

Nobel Prize winning researcher and teacher Eric R. Kandel, with profound empathy, essentially delivers a survey of current knowledge of the workings of the brain using the frame of brain disorders. Our understanding of the biology of the mind is changing rapidly and Kandel charts these advances in clear and very comprehensible language explaining how they are leading to new insights about human nature and consciousness itself.

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How to Be a Good Creature

How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (Hardcover)

By Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green (Illustrator)

$20.00

ISBN: 9780544938328

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - September 25th, 2018

Sy Montgomery, in her utterly charming new memoir, attempts to answer the question “What have animals taught me about life”. Her life’s work and passion has brought her into contact with creatures as varied as tarantulas and hyenas, emus and octopus, each in their own way a marvel and each with something to teach about how to make one’s way in this wondrous world

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Eager

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)

By Ben Goldfarb

$24.95

ISBN: 9781603587396

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Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company - July 11th, 2018

The near eradication of the beaver in Europe and North America has had profound implications for the environment that are finally being recognized. Goldfarb reports on the alliance of scientists, environmentalists, ranchers, and concerned citizens organizing to restoring beaver populations in an effort to solve a host of environmental problems their absence exasperated. Read this book and you will look at our contemporary landscapes in an entirely new way and you may become a Beaver Believer too.

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Playing Changes

Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century (Hardcover)

By Nate Chinen

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ISBN: 9781101870341

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Published: Pantheon - August 14th, 2018

Chinen’s book is so very welcome as books about contemporary jazz are few and far between, but also because it’s terrific. Chinen puts into context each of the various directions players are taking improvisational music today with a studied thoughtfulness based upon careful listening and deep historical knowledge. The discographies bookmarking each chapter as well as his list of essential 21st century albums are good guideposts for anyone’s future listening.

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Rising

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Rush

$26.00

ISBN: 9781571313676

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Published: Milkweed Editions - June 12th, 2018

Never mind what you’ve heard about the coming effects of climate change. As Elizabeth Rush disturbingly documents, we are already seeing widespread effects of sea level rise. With great empathy and a lyrical voice she closely examines the response of various American coastal communities to the dramatic changes they struggle to face.

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Do Not Lick This Book

Do Not Lick This Book (Hardcover)

By Idan Ben-Barak, Julian Frost (Illustrator)

$16.99

ISBN: 9781250175366

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Published: Roaring Brook Press - June 5th, 2018

Do not lick this book. You might hurt Min and her tiny friends. I bet she also doesn’t taste like strawberries. Ask your brother to lick it instead.

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Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)

By Steve Brusatte

$29.99

ISBN: 9780062490421

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Published: William Morrow - April 24th, 2018

Brusatte takes us with him on his travels around the world fossil hunting with other equally dedicated and passionate paleontologists who together have been revising what we know about the remarkable life on our planet millions of years ago.

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Our Towns

Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America (Hardcover)

By James Fallows, Deborah Fallows

$28.95

ISBN: 9781101871843

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Published: Pantheon - May 8th, 2018

It’s too easy these days to fall into despair about the direction of the country. The Fallows’ have been crisscrossing the country in their single-engine Cirrus the past few years visiting and reporting on dozens of smaller towns and cities that are finding ways to renew their communities after facing severe economic and social dislocation.

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