Jimmy Carter urges the new president to make peace in the Middle East.

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Video gamers, a Brazilian hit woman and other misfits populate this novel, narrated (mostly) by a drug runner in distress.

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This novel imagines life as faced by a man with Alzheimer?s.

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David E. Sanger surveys the foreign-policy challenges George W. Bush left his successor.

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In this Dashiell Hammett spinoff, Joe Gores fills in the back stories of characters from ?The Maltese Falcon.?

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An exploration of eccentric sexual yearnings, and what they tell us about the nature of deviance and desire.

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This first novel involves the trials of a medical family caught up in the turmoil of Ethiopia.

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The characters in Antonya Nelson?s latest story collection navigate the rocky terrain of adultery and sickness, death and family life.

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Manipulation is the tool of choice for the Pakistani characters in this collection of linked stories.

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In David Liss?s historical thriller, frontiersmen try to save the nation from Alexander Hamilton.

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After a distinguished career, a British editor gamely contemplates death.

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A guide to the deluge of books occasioned by the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln?s birth.

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How presidents from Eisenhower to Bush II confronted the Middle East.

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A biography of Lewis Carroll concentrates less on Alice and more on his mathematical adventures.

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A teasing tale of courtship, art and murder in 18th-century dress.

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A reporter explores the New York Police Department?s counterterrorism unit.

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Adrian Desmond and James Moore?s book links Darwin?s hatred of slavery with his work on natural selection; Adam Gopnik?s compares Darwin?s writing style with Lincoln?s.

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In 1920s Hollywood, Joseph Kennedy owned three studios and made a fortune.

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T. Coraghessan Boyle?s mesmerizing novel approaches Frank Lloyd Wright?s complexities through the lens of his messy romantic relationships.

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Two new biographies celebrate Samuel Johnson?s tercentenary.

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A sports columnist pays tribute to what happens off the field on Super Bowl Sunday ? from the business deals to the parties.

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A professor of philosophy connects modern preferences in literature, music and art to those of prehistoric humans.

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An intellectual history of how the concept of evolution evolved in the decades after the Civil War.

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A look at the classical age of science and the early history of the United States through the work of the remarkable Joseph Priestley.

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