Words Without Music: A Memoir

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  El último sueño

  El libro más personal de Pedro Almodóvar: un autorretrato articulado en doce relatos que revelan su pasión secreta por la escritura.
  
  «Este libro es lo más parecido a una autobiografía fragmentada. [...…

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  Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

  A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.…

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  Good and Evil and Other Stories

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  On the Calculation of Volume I

  Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd Novembe…

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  The Artificial Silk Girl

  In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resul…

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  Sanshirō

  One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world'…

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  The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

  From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered ou…

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  In Praise of Shadows

  An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descri…

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  Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

  In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the N…

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  The Silent Cry

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  Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Forever

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  The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America

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  Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

  A new nonfiction book by Henry Kissinger, coauthored by Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie, to be published in November 2024.

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  3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

  From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists—Miles Davis,…

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  Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow

  Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alva…

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  The Piano Lesson

  August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitz…

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  12 Notes: On Life and Creativity

  Wisdom and musings on creativity and life from one of the world’s most beloved musicians, producers, and mentors—the legendary multi-award-winner Quincy Jones
  
  12 Notes is a self-development guide that …

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  A Month in Siena

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  Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

  Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance man bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder. Not a master mason or carpenter, Filippo Brunelleschi was…

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  The Philosophy of Modern Song

  The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
  
  Dylan, who began working on the book…

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