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The Lessons of the Master

The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

by Patrick French


The Co-President at Work

The Dark Side: The Inside Story on How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

by Jane Mayer

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

by Barton Gellman

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

by Ron Suskind

Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy

by Charlie Savage

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception

by Scott McClellan

The Bush Tragedy

by Jacob Weisberg

Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President

by Stephen F. Hayes

The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006–2008

by Bob Woodward

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Irène Némirovsky: The Dogs & the Wolves

David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair

by Irène Némirovsky, translated from the French by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Claire Messud


Vietnam: Dead Souls

Ghosts of War in Vietnam

by Heonik Kwon

The Boat

by Nam Le


Witnesses to a Mystery

Home

by Marilynne Robinson


Fishing in the Dead Sea

Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace

by Avi Shlaim

King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life

by Nigel Ashton

The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation

by Marwan Muasher


How They Blew Up the L.A. Times

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century

by Howard Blum


Wright in Love

Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954–1959

by Jane King Hession and Debra Pickrel, with a foreword by Mike Wallace

Frank Lloyd Wright: Essential Texts

edited by Robert Twombly

The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship

by Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Heroic Years, 1920–1932

by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

by Frank Lloyd Wright, with a new introduction by Neil Levine

Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer’s Journey

by Pedro E. Guerrero

Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders

by William R. Drennan

Loving Frank: A Novel

by Nancy Horan

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Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers

Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure

an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, April 25–July 20, 2008; and the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, October 4, 2008– January 5, 2009


What is Scotland?

The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History

by Hugh Trevor-Roper

Scotland: The Autobiography

by Rosemary Goring

The Oxford Companion to Scottish History

edited by Michael Lynch

Rainbow Kiss

a play by Simon Farquhar, directed by Will Frears

Black Watch

a play by Gregory Burke, directed by John Tiffany


The Friendship of Cal and Elizabeth

Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton


‘But They Burned Giordano Bruno!’

Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic

by Ingrid D. Rowland


Trapped in the New ‘You’re on Your Own’ World

High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families

by Peter Gosselin


What Happened to Wystan Auden?

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III: 1949–1955

edited by Edward Mendelson

Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden

edited by Stephen Burt with Hannah Brooks-Motl


The Prime of James Wood

How Fiction Works

by James Wood


Two Paths for the Novel

Netherland

by Joseph O’Neill

Remainder

by Tom McCarthy


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