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  • An Education

    “Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout.” —Zoë Heller

    Trade Paperback Original, 192, 5 x 7.125

    ISBN: 978-1-934633-85-4

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  • Burned

    “A deeply moving, beautifully written, and transforming story.” —Greg Mortensen, author of Three Cups of Tea

    Trade Paperback Original, 304, 5 x 7.125

    ISBN: 978-1-934633-30-4

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  • Mother California

    "A magnificent inquiry into the human condition." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

    Hardcover, 208, 5.5 x 7.125

    ISBN: 978-1-934633-19-9

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  • A Universal History of the Destruction of Books

    “Impressive. . . The best book written on this subject.” —Noam Chomsky

    Hardcover, 272, 5" x 7 1/8"

    ISBN: 978-1-934633-01-4

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  • Franz Kafka

    “[A] study as lively, lucid and flat-out enjoyable as any literary biography this year. . . . Never before has Kafka seemed endearing; never before has he even seemed appreciably human. Mr. Begley’s triumph is to revive the man beneath the iconography, and to present afresh for a 21st-century audience that maddening, addled soul in all its twitchy glory.” —New York Observer

    Paperback, 208, 5" x 7 1/8"

    ISBN: 978-1-934633-23-6

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  • Madame de Staël

    “[A] sympathetic, profoundly humanizing biography . . . [Francine] du Plessix Gray offers a timely mediation on female power, and an inspiring profile of one woman’s courage.” —Caroline Weber, Vogue

    Paperback, 256, 5.5 x 7.125

    ISBN: 978-1-934633-21-2

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  • Rimbaud

    “White’s abiding kinship with Rimbaud gives this restless soul’s well-traveled tale new fire.” —Vanity Fair

    Paperback, 208, 5.5 x 7.125

    ISBN: 978-1-934633-20-5

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  • Inside the Stalin Archives

    “In a strongly-written, fascinating, and original book, Jonathan Brent interweaves portraits of Russians in their daily lives with an astute analysis of Joseph Stalin's legacy.” —Philip Roth

     

    Hardcover, 336, 5.5 x 7.125

    ISBN: 978-1-9777433-3-9

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