This history of Anne Boleyn’s downfall evaluates the range of opinion about what lay behind her execution.

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In Joshua Ferris’s second novel, a successful Manhattan trial attorney is afflicted with an uncontrollable compulsion to leave his desk and trek for miles.

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An exquisitely detailed look at the film that brought us “My mother’s not herself today.’’

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A global history of capitalism in all its creative — and destructive — glory.

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A charmed couple, a hedge fund, insider trading, vast wealth. . . . It’s all in this intelligent novel, a contemporary morality tale about a rich and dysfunctional family.

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The inside story of the 2008 campaign, longer on vignettes and backstage gossip than on analysis.

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This entertaining romp through the unconscious mind reads as vivid reportage overlaid with a sampling of science.

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In the final volume of Javier Marías’s magnificent, sui generis novel, his narrator, an uneasy spy, peers into the territory of torture.

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A subtle and fascinating examination of E. M. Forster’s novels and criticism.

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In these stories, Sam Shepard’s anonymous narrator, his own red-eyed alter ego, drives to forsaken places most travelers never stop, but he’s fine with being nowhere.

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A splendid and compact study of the failure of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.

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The quirky pleasures in these essays are due in part to Zadie Smith’s inspired cultural references, from Simone Weil to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

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This biography of James Cameron traces his high-tech vision from Erector Sets to “Terminator” to “Avatar.”

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Gregg Easterbrook argues that the financial crisis is just a small cloud over the road to rapid global innovation.

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This powerful novel chronicles a hauntingly “toxic” year at a Catholic girls’ school.br clear=both style=clear: both;/br clear=both style=clear: both;/a href=http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0c8fc401a7b089d886cc1c0b34651922p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0c8fc401a7b089d886cc1c0b34651922p=1//aimg alt= height=0 width=0 border=0 style=display:none src=http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219/

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This novel’s central relationship is built on the ashes of the Khmer Rouge purge.br clear=both style=clear: both;/br clear=both style=clear: both;/a href=http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=74abe98b76d8c649eb514e01d01484b3p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=74abe98b76d8c649eb514e01d01484b3p=1//aimg alt= height=0 width=0 border=0 style=display:none src=http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219/

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The MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski’s memoir explains her unusual childhood and her struggle to build a TV career while raising a family.br clear=both style=clear: both;/br clear=both style=clear: both;/a href=http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2091f8744c55d62577aa3be8d3799d88p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2091f8744c55d62577aa3be8d3799d88p=1//aimg alt= height=0 width=0 border=0 style=display:none src=http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219/

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A deeply skeptical biography of Wernher von Braun, a Nazi rocket scientist who later played a key role in NASA’s Apollo program.br clear=both style=clear: both;/br clear=both style=clear: both;/a href=http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=97b8606f6c763c16d79318c609379cdfp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=97b8606f6c763c16d79318c609379cdfp=1//aimg alt= height=0 width=0 border=0 style=display:none src=http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219/

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Picking up pretty much where “Eat, Pray, Love” left off, Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir describes how her boyfriend’s unforeseen visa problems enticed her into a most dreaded institution: marriage.br clear=both style=clear: both;/br clear=both style=clear: both;/a href=http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2391f8a982a77a96cf13f17315e2726bp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2391f8a982a77a96cf13f17315e2726bp=1//aimg alt= height=0 width=0 border=0 style=display:none src=http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219/

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A quick run-through of the life of Helen Gahagan Douglas, actress turned New Deal politician.br clear=both style=clear: both;/br clear=both style=clear: both;/a href=http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9d93e7c840b1e818ce671b00681eba84p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9d93e7c840b1e818ce671b00681eba84p=1//aimg alt= height=0 width=0 border=0 style=display:none src=http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219/

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This fantastically imagined first novel about a woman whose feet are turning to glass blends fairy tale, myth and psychological realism.br clear=both style=clear: both;/br clear=both style=clear: both;/a href=http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9bf25b641031b9692831c55d1721853ap=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9bf25b641031b9692831c55d1721853ap=1//aimg alt= height=0 width=0 border=0 style=display:none src=http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219/

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In this barren Norwegian novel, an ex-director of an old-age home fulminates and decays, and brutalizes his wife.br clear=both style=clear: both;/br clear=both style=clear: both;/a href=http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=736931c6c8fde911d079f31dde6cafb8p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=736931c6c8fde911d079f31dde6cafb8p=1//aimg alt= height=0 width=0 border=0 style=display:none src=http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219/

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The journalist Seth Lipsky and the historian Jack N. Rakove mark up the United States Constitution.br clear=both style=clear: both;/br clear=both style=clear: both;/a href=http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=be698c61a8bab2ab22d417b22fefa4b3p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=be698c61a8bab2ab22d417b22fefa4b3p=1//aimg alt= height=0 width=0 border=0 style=display:none src=http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219/

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A biography of Charles II, the Restoration monarch, that resonates in the present.br clear=both style=clear: both;/br clear=both style=clear: both;/a href=http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=1275040e546503d7d67100f1a98086f0p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=1275040e546503d7d67100f1a98086f0p=1//aimg alt= height=0 width=0 border=0 style=display:none src=http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219/

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A poet translates the Hebrew Bible in a contemporary idiom.br clear=both style=clear: both;/br clear=both style=clear: both;/a href=http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=63eb87e174b5f7516e2a914fd41fdbbep=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=63eb87e174b5f7516e2a914fd41fdbbep=1//aimg alt= height=0 width=0 border=0 style=display:none src=http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219/

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