All Hopped Up and Ready to Go (Excerpt)

A penetrating and entertaining exploration of New York’s music scene from Cubop through folk, punk, and hip-hop. From Tony Fletcher, the acclaimed biographer of Keith Moon, comes an incisive histo...

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Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel (excerpt)

An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution. This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ...

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The Perfect Finish: Special Desserts for Every ...

The acclaimed pastry chef’s long-awaited collection of stunning-to-behold yet simple-to-make desserts for every occasion. Most of us don’t have the time to make dessert, and when we do, it is for ...

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W. W. Norton: The Spring 2010 Catalog

This catalog describes books to be published by W. W. Norton & Company from April 2010 to August 2010. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10110 212-354-5500 Norton toll-fr...

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Yvon's Paris

Photographs of the “City of Light” taken by a master photographer in the early part of the twentieth century. The photographer Pierre Yves-Petit, who called himself “Yvon,” wandered the streets ...

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh

A major architectural study of one of the pioneers of modernism. Charles Rennie Mackintosh was Scotland’s greatest architect and arguably one of the world’s most admired. He had far fewer commissi...

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Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale

Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival. As a recent college grad, Belle fled an abusive boyfriend who beca...

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The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights

A powerful argument by the secretary general of Amnesty International that poverty is not just an economic problem but a global human-rights violation. In our rapidly globalizing age with econom...

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Reads: 3,654

Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs

A stunning, visual biography of Michelle Obama that finally puts her phenomenal fame into a cultural and historical context we can all understand. There has never been a first lady like her before...

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The Will Eisner Library from W. W. Norton

WILL EISNER (1917–2005) is universally acknowledged as one of the great masters of comic book art, beginning as a teenager during the birth of the comic book industry in the mid–1930s. After a succ...

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Bob Dylan Revisited

Rendered in striking, explosive graphic form, many of Bob Dylan’s most famous songs—illustrated as they’ve never been before. Mesmerized by the power of Bob Dylan’s lyrics and intrigued by the p...

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Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (excerpt)

An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women. Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese...

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Reads: 1,421

People of the Whale (excerpt)

“Deeply ecological, original, and spellbinding. . . . [A] hauntingly beautiful novel of the hidden dimensions of life.” —Booklist, starred review Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka...

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The World Beneath (excerpt)

A mesmerizing literary novel that begins when a boy goes missing—and winds into an obsessive hunt with murderous results. One cold November morning in Perser, Oklahoma, Sheriff Jerry Martin rece...

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The Great Perhaps (excerpt)

A breakout new novel from the critically acclaimed novelist and playwright Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned. The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards: for Jonathan, a ...

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The American Painter Emma Dial (excerpt)

Emma Dial is a virtuoso painter who executes the works of Michael Freiburg, a preeminent figure in the New York art world. She has a sensuous and exacting hand, hips like a matador, and long neglec...

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Perfect Life: A Novel (excerpt)

From the author of The Hazards of Good Breeding, a uniquely modern chronicle of conception in the age of infinite possibility. Two years ago, Neil Banks walked into a bathroom in the Pacific Fer...

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Waterbirds

The book John James Audubon would have made if he had used a camera. Brushing aside rattlesnakes on Green Island, Texas, or enduring the bitter cold of an Alaskan winter, Theodore Cross has purs...

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The Red Book

During World War I, C. G. Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called his "confrontation with the unconscious." At the heart of this exploration was The Red Book, a large, illuminated v...

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Gray Land: Soldiers on War

Photographs of, and candid interviews with, soldiers of the Iraq War, documenting the extraordinary challenges they face. Given extraordinary access by the U. S. Army, Barry Goldstein spent two ...

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Reads: 750