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Susan Sontag
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

"Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS available in one volume. Sontag destigmatizes both illnesses by removing the metaphorical thinking that has made these among the most feared diseases of…

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Susan Sontag
On Photography

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A new edition of Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography-its problems, politics, and possibilities."To photograph is to ap…

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Jean Strouse
Family Romance

Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. Jean Strouse's Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Werth…

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Miguel Syjuco
I Was the President's Mistress!!

"Brilliant . . . Miguel Syjuco is his country's most original and unflinching literary voice." - Salman Rushdie"It's a rare novel that leaves you reeling simultaneously with admiration, exh…

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Chris Harding Thornton
Little Underworld

Chinatownmeets the Coen brothers in 1930s Omaha in this atmospheric noir by a native Nebraskan.Omaha, 1930. PI Jim Beely's life wasn't a peach to begin with. And now there's a dead guy in his backseat. Th…

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Christopher Tilghman
On the Tobacco Coast

The culmination of Christopher Tilghman's great Chesapeake saga, a story spanning four centuries of an American family. It is the Fourth of July 2019, and the Mason family is gathering at their historic C…

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Yuko Tsushima,
Wildcat Dome

An epic novel of postwar Japan-a powerful reckoning with empire, catastrophe, trauma, and truth-telling-by the author of Territory of Light . Mitch and Yonko haven't spoken in a year. As children, they we…

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Jeff VanderMeer
Absolution

ANEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Locus Awards Finalist ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times ,The Washington Post ,New York magazine,Time , Kirkus ,Literary Hub, GoodreadsFeaturing a…

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Tom Wolfe
The Purple Decades

The essential collection of Tom Wolfe's writing on a turning-point era in modern American culture, newly repackaged and reissued with the original introduction by Joe David Bellamy.It was in the 1960s and…

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Alan Walker
Fryderyk Chopin

**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. The Sunday Times (UK) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist's Best Books of 2018. "A magisterial portrait." - Corinna da Fonseca-W…

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Carvell Wallace
Another Word for Love

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing.In Another Word for Love , Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the stru…

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John Waters
Desperate Living

A grotesque and hilarious satire about the American dream, suburban living, and the corrupting influence of power, set in a world that could only have sprung from the unhinged and brilliant mind of John W…

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John Waters
Female Trouble

"Burroughs famously dubbed Waters the Pope of Trash. Female Trouble , we might say, is his Summa Trashologica ." - Ed Halter, The Criterion CollectionIt all goes to hell when Baltimore bad girl …

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John Waters
Flamingos Forever

One part of John Waters' iconic Trash Trilogy, Flamingos Forever is a dark-comedy screenplay about a drag queen trying to retain her title of "Filthiest Person in the World." Fifteen years after…

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John Waters
Hairspray

A feel-good fable and an enduring critique of conformity told with true John Waters flair.Tracy Turnblad, a spunky, full-figured Baltimore teen, wants nothing more than to be a featured dancer on The Corn…

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John Waters
Multiple Maniacs

A very John Waters traveling show, replete with freaks, robbery, murder, sex, blasphemy, and savage shellfish-a lurid, surreal celebration of camp and trash.The Cavalcade of Perversion is a traveling show…

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John Waters
Pink Flamingos

The return of a spectacular, reviled, and iconic classic of American filth! John Waters takes us back to the scene of his original crime against good taste. Watch as Babs Johnson fights to hold on to her …

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Michael Waters
The Other Olympians

A Finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction. A Finalist for the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and the 2025 Mark Lynton History Prize. Named one of the Best Books of…

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Henry Wiencek
Stan and Gus

The celebrated architect Stanford White was a louche man-about-town and a canny cultural entrepreneur, the creator of landmarks that raised the stature of the American built environment. Augustus Saint-Ga…

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Clair Wills
Missing Persons

Non-Fiction Book of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2024 A Boston GlobeBest Book of 2024How far would you go for the missing?Blending private and public history, cultural analysis, family memoir, and autobiog…

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