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The Education of an Idealist

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Samantha Power

$23.99

ISBN: 9780062820693

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Published: Dey Street Books - September 10th, 2019

Power, well-known for her earlier Pulitzer Prize winning book on genocide A Problem from Hell , gives us a compelling memoir chronicling her life becoming a tireless human rights advocate first as a journalist and vocal critic of government policy, then through her service as presidential adviser, and finally her appointment as U.N Ambassador, struggling to make a difference by bringing a moral dimension to American foreign policy.

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Playing Changes

Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century (Paperback)

By Nate Chinen

$16.95

ISBN: 9781101873496

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Published: Vintage - July 23rd, 2019

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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Horizon

Horizon (Hardcover)

By Barry Lopez

$30.00

ISBN: 9780394585826

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Published: Knopf - March 19th, 2019

This book is not for everyone though it is my kind of Summer reading. Its length and rich prose requires close and patient attention. In a sense it’s a summation of Lopez’s lifetime of travels to the distant corners of our planet documenting the interactions of myriad human cultures and the natural world. Terry Tempest Williams recently called it “a masterpiece”. Indeed.

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The Farmer’s Son

The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm (Hardcover)

By John Connell

$25.00

ISBN: 9781328577993

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - May 7th, 2019

The Farmer’s Son is an unflinching yet tender memoir about small livestock farming way of life in rural Ireland that almost disappeared if not in Ireland than certainly in our own country. While there’s nothing romantic about such a hardscrabble life Connell’s account of his careful and humane husbandry is profoundly moving.

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War and Peace

War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945 (FDR at War #3) (Hardcover)

By Nigel Hamilton

$30.00

ISBN: 9780544876804

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - May 7th, 2019

The final title of Hamilton’s 3-volume biography of FDR as commander-in-chief is a triumph. Compulsively readable yet with a masterful command of his source material, Hamilton gives us a fresh and detailed view of the last two dramatic years of FDR’s life from the wartime summit in Tehran, through the landings at D-Day, his election to a fourth term and the dying president’s final Big Three conference at Yalta.

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Sea People

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)

By Christina Thompson

$29.99

ISBN: 9780062060877

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Published: Harper - March 12th, 2019

Sea People is a fascinating historical and anthropological detective story about the peoples that settled the wide expanse of Pacific islands we today call Polynesia. It’s a book as much about how we’ve learned their story as well as the epic itself of how these lands were populated.

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The Uninhabitable Earth

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)

By David Wallace-Wells

$27.00

ISBN: 9780525576709

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Published: Tim Duggan Books - February 19th, 2019

With regards to the coming catastrophic effects of climate change the first sentence of this powerful polemic says it all: “It is worse, much worse, than you think.”

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Getz/Gilberto

João Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto (33 1/3 Brazil) (Paperback)

By Bryan Daniel McCann, Jason Stanyek (Editor)

$22.95

ISBN: 9781501323959

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Published: Bloomsbury Academic - November 29th, 2018

What better way to spend a cold, snowy February day reading McCann’s book while listening to the classic album that help define the bossa nova sound of the early 1960s. Part of the terrific 33 1/3 series that explores in depth seminal recordings of many different genres, this volume places the Getz/Gilberto album in social, historical, and musical context along with expert discussions of each composition cut by cut.

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These Truths

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

By Jill Lepore

$39.95

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

$39.95

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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