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A funny memoir of a year in the life of a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. Inside a Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and a portly cat named...
**New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice** To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part...
A TIME TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 AN ATLANTIC TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE Drawing on new archival material, original research, and...
Includes new early writings: "This vibrant collection fully displays Auster's wit and humanity . . . a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a celebrated author." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Beginning with a short philosophical meditation written when he was...
A New Statesman best book of the year | New York Times Editors' Choice pick A Financial Times best economics book of 2019 An accessible, story-driven look at the future of the global economy, written by a leading expert To predict our future, we must look to the...
From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles. No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired...
"Self-deprecating but delighting . . . a wonderful addition to the Heaney canon—as life-enhancing in its own way as the poems it celebrates." —Andrew Motion, The Guardian Nobel Prize–Winning Poet Heaney's ten lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, collected here...
Nikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection—a landmark of American literature which speaks to the fury and upheaval of our time, as well as the triumphs and delights of her remarkable creative life. For decades, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has been at the forefront of...
The bestselling author of How to Win Friends and Influence People shares the essentials for public speaking in this classic self-help guide. Good oral communication skills are critical in life. Whether you're speaking to an audience of one at a party or one hundred at...
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice This “beautifully unconventional” book on dementia “reframes our understanding” of Alzheimer’s and aging “with sensitivity and accuracy” ( New York Times ). Personal stories weave with meditations on history, philosophy,...